Cascadia Capital Launches Financial Sponsors Group; Growing Investment Bank Offers Private Equity Firms Proprietary Investment Opportunities.SEATTLE -- Cascadia Capital, a national investment bank focused on serving emerging growth and middle market companies, announced today that it has launched a Financial Sponsors Group catering to top tier U.S.-based private equity funds. Among the first such practices located on the West Coast, Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group will source proprietary investment opportunities for private equity funds and then provide them with access to Cascadia Capital's corporate finance services. The new practice allows private equity firm clients to achieve deeper visibility into middle market investment opportunities while offering company owners alternative strategic financing sources for shareholder recapitalizations, acquisition financing and growth equity. Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group is the latest in a series of recent company milestones, including the opening of the firm's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of office and the closing of more than $500 million in transactions in the last 18 months. Practice Launches at Opportune op·por·tune adj. 1. Suited or right for a particular purpose: an opportune place to make camp. 2. Occurring at a fitting or advantageous time: an opportune arrival. Time Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group is launching at an opportune moment in the capital markets, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Michael Butler
Michael Butler is a musician and podcaster from San Francisco, California, United States. , Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cascadia Capital. "Today, proprietary deals are incredibly hard to find. Most transactions are highly competitive among private equity firms due to the huge overhang Overhang Calculated as stock options granted, plus the remaining options to still be granted, and then divided by the total shares outstanding. Notes: A high percentage for the overhang is usually a bad thing. of capital, more abundant and sophisticated sell-side representation in the middle market and an extreme supply/demand imbalance," he explained. "Private equity firms are willing to pay a premium for attractive opportunities if they are consistent with the fund's investment objectives." Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group also addresses recent and unprecedented competition within the private equity markets. "As little as two years ago, financial buyers couldn't offer a price high enough to entice sellers in a competitive process," explained Butler. "The increase in average debt multiples has allowed private equity buyers to bridge the valuation gap and complete transactions otherwise unobtainable." Synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. With Cascadia Capital's Practice Areas and Relationships Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group will benefit from the firm's national capital markets relationships and related debt and M&A advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal . The group will also leverage the intellectual capital generated from Cascadia Capital's five Industry Practice Groups in Communications; Information Technology; Security & Defense; Healthcare; and Industrial & Consumer. Finally, the Financial Sponsors Group will capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. Cascadia Capital's visibility into corporate finance transactions and strategic M&A. By leveraging these existing assets, the Financial Sponsors Group will maintain a unique and rare perspective that is the foundation for producing proprietary deal flow as well as strategic ideas and insights to buyers within the private equity community. Targeting Private Equity Funds Upwards of $500 Million Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group will target private equity funds with a minimum size of $500 million with the following services: --Buy-side platform searches --Buy-side add-on searches --Merchant banking/participating principal investment --Structure finance/LBO debt financing Debt Financing When a firm raises money for working capital or capital expenditures by selling bonds, bills, or notes to individual and/or institutional investors. In return for lending the money, the individuals or institutions become creditors and receive a promise to repay --Portfolio company recapitalizations, restructurings and strategic exits --Investment strategy consulting Christian Schiller Louis Christian Schiller (born New Barnet, London, 20 September 1895, died 11 February 1976, Kenton, London), known as Christian Schiller, was HM Inspector of Schools in the United Kingdom and a promoter of progressive ideas in primary education. as Managing Director Christian Schiller has been appointed Managing Director of Cascadia Capital's Financial Sponsors Group, leveraging the firm's Industry Practice Groups as well as its M&A practice to develop creative and strategic acquisition financing ideas for private equity fund clients. Previously, Schiller was Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions for Cook Associates, an internationally recognized executive search firm, where he led more than 30 transactions from $10 million to $800 million in valuation. While there, Schiller also co-founded a CEO-led transaction program that arranged over $800 million of equity funding Equity funding An investment consisting of a life insurance policy and a mutual fund. The insurance policy is paid by the collateral value of fund shares, giving the investor the advantages of insurance protection with the growth potential of a mutual fund. for CEOs to acquire companies. "The Financial Sponsor Group represents a significant opportunity to leverage the platform and relationships that Cascadia Capital has built over the past few years as well as its deep knowledge of the middle market and expertise across a number of consolidating industries," said Christian Schiller, Managing Director, Financial Sponsors Group, Cascadia Capital. About Cascadia Capital Cascadia Capital (www.cascadiacapital.com) offers corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory services, and capital market services to companies across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Cascadia Capital serves emerging growth and middle market companies, both public and private. The firm focuses on the following sectors: Information Technology, Communications, Security & Defense, Healthcare, and Industrial & Consumer. |
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