Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Washington, DC, (October 15, 2024) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture, and corporate finance services, announced today that Accutron Inc.

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Focus Investment Banking

MAY 31, 2024

Further, National’s ability to collaborate with customer engineering teams during the design phase can help expedite the process of bringing new products to market and ensure leading product quality in terms of both performance and aesthetics. appeared first on FOCUS.

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Focus Investment Banking

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Targeting sectors with rigorous technical specifications, regulatory compliance standards, and exacting quality requirements, MSK serves customers primarily in the medical, aerospace & defense and telecommunications end markets. Headquartered outside Fort Lauderdale in Tamarac, Florida, MSK operates a 35,000 square foot facility. “We

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

MAY 6, 2024

Baltimore, MD, May 7, 2024 – Chesapeake Corporate Advisors (CCA), a boutique investment banking and corporate advisory firm in the Mid-Atlantic region, announced that Timothy Brasel has been named a Managing Director in the firm’s investment banking group.

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Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 7, 2024

Washington, DC (June 7, 2024) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture, and corporate finance services, announced today that Chenega Corporation (“Chenega”) has acquired SecuriGence LLC. FOCUS represented Chenega in this transaction.

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Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Washington, DC, (October 20, 2023) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and corporate finance services, announced today that Bearing Distributors, Inc.

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

APRIL 8, 2024

SoftTech was acquired by Synergy ECP, a provider of software engineering, cybersecurity and systems engineering services, who is backed by Falfurrias Capital, based in Charlotte, NC. (“SoftTech Solutions”), a custom software development firm that specializes in serving the U.S. Intelligence Community. The post SoftTech Solutions, Inc.

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“Their expertise in M&A, understanding of market dynamics, and extensive knowledge of government contracting were invaluable in ensuring the success of this process.” The CCA investment banking team on this transaction included Managing Director Marty O’Neill , Vice President Andy Spears, and Analyst Miles Galley.

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Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 1, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Armed Forces Retirement Homes as well as to select commercial entities. Earlier in its journey, CMI Management had won a $400M BPA and supported DHS at 71 different sites across the continental U.S.

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Solganick & Co.

AUGUST 14, 2023

Strong balance sheets and available capital from both financial and strategic acquirers has helped support deal activity and valuations, particularly for companies in the middle market and lower middle market. Solganick & Co.

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The CCA investment banking team on this transaction included Managing Director Marty O’Neill and Vice President Andy Spears. SSATI was founded in 2003 by intelligence industry engineers who knew they wanted to work for a different kind of company. Together, we are positioned to accomplish great things.”

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 31, 2024

The Top Industrials Private Equity Firms Mega-Funds and “Large” Private Equity Firms Upper-Middle-Market (UMM) and Middle-Market (MM) Firms Special Situations, Stressed, and Distressed Firms Newer / Smaller PE Firms with Some Industrials Focus How Do Industrials Private Equity Deals Work?

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

JANUARY 13, 2023

In the video below, CCA Managing Partner, Charlie Maskell, Director, Tim Brasel, and Managing Director, Mike Zuidema break down the CCA team, investment banking, and corporate advisory highlights from 2022.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 19, 2023

Metals & mining investment banking used to be a “sleepy” group. But let’s forget about the children temporarily and focus on the verticals, the drivers, deal examples, and the exit opportunities if you escape from the underground mines: What Is Metals & Mining Investment Banking?

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Focus Investment Banking

JULY 28, 2023

However, activity decelerated significantly during the latter half of the year, with larger deals experiencing a more pronounced decline compared to middle-market activity. To ensure continued success in this rapidly transforming market, industry leaders and executives must thoroughly evaluate their company portfolios.

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Periculum Capital

MARCH 8, 2024

Mark will join SAM as Vice President of Digital Engineering and all PrecisionPoint employees will have the opportunity to grow their careers at a 2022 Top Workplaces award winner. About Periculum Capital Company, LLC Periculum is a leading investment and merchant banking firm serving the corporate finance needs of middle market companies.

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Successful Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this role with Capstone’s team of Growth Engineers, Brian works side-by-side with clients through the deal making process to develop actionable transition strategies that maximize value and create generational wealth. Capstone Strategic, Inc. He holds a BS in Finance and an MBA, both from Pennsylvania State University.

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But AI is only as good as the information being poured into it, and to that end, most AI engines utilize data from a few years ago. The information that is manipulated by those engines, and therefore the output that is presented to humans, might not be current. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage now.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 24, 2024

But then recruiting moved up, the MBA process became more structured, and now we have 4-year-olds aiming for “Target Kindergartens” so they can eventually get into investment banking ~15 years in the future. Interestingly, there are not many investment banks on these lists.

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Solganick & Co.

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Pandera engineers, data scientists, and technologists build and run leading-edge technology solutions by leveraging cloud, design thinking, data, and analytics through collaborative relationships with partners and customers. Our clients include startup, growth, middle-market and Fortune 500 companies. Solganick & Co.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 17, 2023

And just as tech and TMT investment banking have become the most desirable groups on the sell-side, tech private equity has reached a similar status on the buy-side. So, as central banks kept printing, PE firms, VCs, and other investors kept benefiting as they could buy companies at nosebleed multiples and sell them at even higher multiples.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

From a career perspective , growth equity appealed to many bankers and consultants who didn’t want to be “pigeonholed” in venture capital (limited exit opportunities) or suffer through “banking hours” once again in private equity. Also, you can get in more easily from a middle-market or boutique bank.

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Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

That’s the topic CCA Managing Director Marty O’Neill and Shirley Collier, President of Scale 2 Market, discussed on the Growth Masters Federal podcast, which this blog recaps. Investors are still active in the M&A middle market, even in a difficult economy. Recently, those figures began drifting downward.

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Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I did one ESOP where (the business) was $3 million in revenue and a classically challenging situation in that it was a very project-oriented, engineering business (that’s) very difficult to sell otherwise. And the trustee will get in the middle of that decision.” If it's more cyclical than that, it's difficult. “I

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InvestmentBank.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

One of the biggest struggles with selling in the middle to lower middle market is business valuation expectations. Sellers almost always feel their business is worth far more than what the market will bear. The owner/operator is reverse-engineering a valuation based on wants/needs, not on fair market value.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 19, 2024

Factors such as limited range, charging infrastructure issues, and the overall higher cost of EVs compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles contribute to the challenges. We are seeing investments being made, including from some of Warren Buffett’s companies, in businesses closely tied to the internal combustion engine.

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