Investment Banks

Avondale Partners, LLC is a investment bank firm based in Nashville, United States.

Axiom Capital Group is a Boston-based investment bank that works with privately-owned middle market companies to facilitate their strategic and financial goals. Axiom has established itself as an industry leader and a trustworthy partner by advising clients throughout mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, financing and recapitalization, corporate restructuring, buyouts, and turnarounds, and valuations.

Axiom is a full service financial services firm providing access to capital, proprietary ideas and seamless transaction executions for Institutional, corporate and high net worth clients. By leveraging the full resources of the firm, Axiom is able to deliver custom tailored, client focused solutions at a sophistication level not generally available in the middle-market.

Axon Partners Group is a global Investment, Alternative Asset Manager and Advisory firm with presence and experience worldwide. Axon combines the flexibility and speed of boutiques, with a proven track record in the digital economy sector, energy, and healthcare. It was founded by entrepreneurs with extensive financial and business development experience. Axon has grown to create a team of more than 80 experts in our offices in Madrid, Istanbul, Mexico City, Bogotá, Riyadh, and Seville.

Founded in 1985 by Masazumi Ishii, AZCA is a management consulting and investment banking firm that assists companies as they expand their businesses between North America and Asia (Japan in particular). AZCA serves as a catalyst - advising clients in the development of effective international strategies. More importantly, AZCA plays an active role through every step of the corporate development process to ensure and expedite their successful implementation.

Azla Advisors advises GP's and LP's on Fund-related Transactions. For GP's, it's focus is on exceeding fundraising targets and building diverse LP bases for exceptional GP's with differentiable J-curve mitigation strategies and a strong track record. For LP's,It's focus is on achieving pricing out-performance for divesting LP's and private equity direct investors when selling on the secondary private equity market.

Aztec Group, Inc. is one of Florida’s leading real estate investment and merchant banking firms for more than 35 years. As one of Florida's real estate leaders, Aztec Group continually outperforms national real estate players in structuring the entire capital stack, ranging from equity to preferred equity to bridge and construction financing, as well as permanent loans.

BVCA – The investment bank for closely-held businesses. BVCA works with entrepreneurs in selling their businesses or making strategic purchases of new product lines or other companies. Investment Banking Services and Securities offered through Independent Investment Bankers Corp. a broker-dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC BV Capital Advisors is not affiliated with Independent Investment Bankers Corp. BVCA works in following areas Energy & Petrochemical Technology Transportation & Logistics Life Sciences Consumer Goods Environmental Food & Beverage Services: BUY SIDE Define parameters and the sector of interest and desired characteristics Research acquisition targets Provide confidential contact with the targets to obtain and execute a non disclosure agreement allowing the process to advance Prepare a preliminary transaction valuation once information is exchanged Build the terms structure leading to preparation of either an indication of interest or a more formal letter of intent Negotiate agreements along with legal counsel, monitor due diligence process through the transaction closing Assist with post transaction integration as needed SELL SIDE Meeting with company owners, determine goals and expectations, provide a detailed outline of the process and how to prepare for the most efficient process leading to a successfully executed transaction Company data collection, preliminary valuation and market share analysis and begin building a protected virtual data room to house essential documents Market analysis, sector buyer activity and level of acquisition interests Define the transaction objectives and preliminary company valuation Develop list of targeted potential private equity groups, family offices and strategic acquirers based on industry familiarity and after obtaining owner’s approval to approach them Prepare a Confidential Company Memorandum and an Executive Marketing Profile for targeted marketing purposes Obtain signed Confidentiality Agreements and begin process of providing the Confidential Company Memorandum to interested parties and seeking indications of interest Negotiate and enter into a formal non-binding letter of intent with the selected party Manage the due diligence response process via the data room and arranging of conference calls with the various constituent groups on the acquisition side Participation with transaction legal counsel in the negotiations involved in finalizing the definitive closing documents Assistance with post transaction closing issues necessary to fully complete the transaction requirements RECAPITALIZATION AND GROWTH CAPITAL Transactions of this nature may include a partial sale of equity or preferred stock to institutional investor or subordinated debt from an institutional investor.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices across the United States, B. Riley FBR is a leading investment bank which provides corporate finance, research and sales and trading services. Their investment banking services include secondary and follow-on offerings, institutional private placements and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Founded in 1997, B. Riley & Co. began by successfully targeting small-capitalization California-based companies and has earned a reputation for providing proprietary, unbiased and often contrarian equity research coverage of companies that are under-followed or misunderstood by Wall Street.

Bailey Southwell & Co. is a boutique investment bank providing mergers & acquisitions and capital raising services to healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses. Its team of experienced professionals approach each engagement with the highest level of service, integrity, and objectivity and bring decades of industry expertise to execute complex transactions for some of the most sophisticated entrepreneurs, owner/operators, buyout groups, and strategic players. Its team has closed over 200 transactions for more than $15B of Transaction Value.