Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Industrials)

Finlife Corporate Finance is an independent lower mid-market advisory boutique serving companies and private equity investors in planning and executing business acquisition and sale projects in Italy as well as across Europe and overseas. Its team is made up by experienced and passionate professionals with an extensive background across mid-market Investment Banking, Business Management and Strategic Consulting.

First Chicago is a specialized investment bank, licensed by FINRA, providing corporate development solutions, merger and acquisition, structural capital advisory and turnaround management services. The firm has extensive cross-border experience. Senior professionals each having more than 30 years of experience with some of the most prominent global investment banking firms and Fortune 500 corporations in the world. First Chicago Advisors is a bonded registered broker/dealer.

FocalPoint is an independent investment bank, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, private placements (both debt and equity), financial restructurings, and special situation transactions. With offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Shanghai the firm serves middle-market clients globally. Working with the most innovative entrepreneurs, institutions, and private equity firms to provide an unparalleled mix of full-spectrum advisory support and tactical sector-specific expertise, FocalPoint is a sophisticated, global investment bank that makes deals with impact.

Footprint Capital is a boutique investment bank focused on advising owners and operators of privately held companies in the middle market. Deeply rooted in the Midwest, Footprint Capital is proudly based in Columbus, Ohio. Its services include sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions, assisting with internal transactions such as management buyouts and ESOPs, ownership transition planning, growth consulting, value enhancement, capital sourcing, and strategic management consulting.

Foros is a strategic financial and M&A advisory boutique. It identifies value-enhancing M&A and finance transaction opportunities, which may include optimizing capital structure, divesting non-core businesses or assets, acquiring or merging with a peer or selling the company. Foros advises its clients on all aspects of these transactions.

Founders Advisors (Founders) is a merger, acquisition & strategic advisory firm serving middle-market companies. Founders’ focus is on oil and gas, industrials, software, industrial technology, internet, digital media and healthcare companies located nationwide, as well as companies based in the Southeast across a variety of industries. Founders’ skilled professionals, proven expertise and process-based solutions help companies access growth capital, make acquisitions, and/or prepare for and execute liquidity events to achieve specific financial goals.

Established since 1984, Fredericks Michael provides distinctive financial advisory solutions to large corporations, private and family-controlled businesses, and financial sponsors seeking to execute cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, its teams of seasoned, highly entrepreneurial and resourceful professionals build on its global reach and independent structure to offer clients the critical local knowledge, cross-cultural understanding and industry relationships needed to provide unique advice and to carry out complex transactions in a time-efficient, thorough and discreet manner.

Galileo Global Advisors LLC includes a team of seasoned professionals with multilingual and multicultural backgrounds and many decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finances and international strategy. It provides unbiased information, access to global capital markets, and a network of key contacts among governmental and corporate leaders in support of Strategic Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Fairness Opinion, International Capital Raising and Financial Restructuring. Galileo calls on Galileo Global Securities for broker-dealer services.

G.C. Andersen Partners, LLC is an investment banking partnership with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The firm advises clients worldwide on mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and restructuring assignments. The firm provides advice to both publicly and privately held middle market companies with revenues between $20 million and $2 billion.

GH Partners is a leading boutique investment banking advisory firm delivering independent, high-quality strategic and financial advice to domestic and international clients. Founded in 1983 as an international merchant banking firm, its services are highly tailored to meet the needs of its clients mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, financings, strategic advisory, capital structure advisory and independent and special committee advisory. GH Partners provides broad range of strategic, financial and transaction advisory services to domestic and international clients including public and private companies, financial sponsors and institutional investors.