Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Technology & Software)

Evercore is a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm. Evercore is dedicated to helping its clients achieve superior results through trusted independent and innovative advice on matters of strategic significance to boards of directors, management teams and shareholders, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic shareholder advisory, restructurings, and capital structure. Founded in 1995, the Firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices and affiliate offices in major financial centers in North America, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.

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.

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.

The mission of GCH Partners is to help turn business assets into intelligent, profitable returns for its partners and clients. GCH Partners focuses on companies whose businesses are a part of world trade flows and that seek to increase significantly the value of those businesses by connecting to China. Its China Market Strategy division helps businesses prepare for the China market, develop their China market strategy, establish trusted local partners, and provide oversight of local China operations.

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.

GlassRatner, a B. Riley Financial company, is a national specialty financial advisory services firm providing solutions to complex business problems and Board level agenda items. The firm applies a unique mix of skill sets and experience to address matters of the utmost importance to an enterprise such as managing through a business crisis or bankruptcy, pursuing a fraud investigation or corporate litigation, planning & executing a major acquisition or divestiture, unraveling a challenging real estate issue and other top level non-typical business challenges.

GLC Advisors & Co. is a leading independent investment banking advisory firm focused on senior-level expertise, long term relationships and objective guidance to national and international clients. GLC offers comprehensive services to its clients across a number of industries, including: Financing / debt advisory Mergers & acquisitions Restructuring & recapitalization Valuation & fairness options GLC Advisors is affiliated with Global Leveraged Capital and GLC Investment Advisors, the investment arm of Global Leveraged Capital.