Third Coast Capital Advisors LLC is an investment banking firm that provides buyside M&A services to private equity firms and corporate clients. We are a senior team of investment bankers dedicated to providing strategic acquisition search and advisory services.

Metronome Partners LLC is an independent, Chicago and Memphis based M&A advisory firm that specializes in managing, structuring, and negotiating transactions of varying sizes and complexities in a broad range of industries. With over 50 years combined deal experience and over 200 completed transactions, Metronome’s principals guide their clients through critical, value-based corporate finance alternatives, including strategic sales, recapitalizations, divestitures, and debt and equity placements. The firm focuses on middle-market businesses nationwide, valued from $20 million to over $500 million.Metronome fully espouses the ‘boutique’ M&A practice – that senior M&A partners have the experience and expertise to lead clients through critical M&A transactions. This high-touch approach is a vital component of our service offering and persists through deal closing. Metronome’s seasoned practitioners have a wealth of in-depth industry expertise and transaction experience that our clients rely on. Covering the strategic to the tactical, Metronome is a differentiated M&A practice whose specialty is transaction execution expertise, and above all, achieving exceptional results for our clients.

InterOcean Advisors is an independent investment bank focused on the manufacturing sector. InterOcean advises on mergers and acquisitions, private capital sourcing of both debt and equity, and other financial advisory transactions. Our client base includes, among others, private and public companies, family-owned businesses and investment funds.Our extensive experience advising on middle market transactions provides a solid understanding of common deal issues and facilitates the achievement of client objectives. Coupled with deep industry knowledge and sector experts, this experience facilitates the identification of key value drivers, as well as qualified buyers and investors, thereby improving the likelihood of a transaction closing at a premium value and on a timely basis.Mark teams with client management and shareholders to initiate, structure, lead and manage the execution of a variety of investment banking and financial advisory engagements. These engagements include mergers and acquisitions (both buy- and sell-side), private capital raisings and financial advisory mandates which usually focus on the evaluation of potential action steps to improve shareholder value.

The Keystone Group is a results-oriented management consulting firm. Our small, experienced teams work with manufacturing and distribution clients to develop and execute strategy, improve operations, restructure finances, and integrate acquisitions. Our mission is to make a substantive difference in the companies we work with and the lives of the people that work for them. For over twenty years, we have been building long-term relationships with our clients by helping them identify and implement solutions to their most complex business issues.Mark has completed engagements for consumer and industrial products companies in diverse areas, including:• Acquisition advisory (M&A strategy, target screening, due diligence and transaction execution)• Integration and Day 1 planning, with an emphasis on operational readiness and efficiency• Post merger integration planning and execution• Sell-side advisory (for both healthy and distressed business assets), including business plan development, value proposition articulation and process management from initial buyer contact through transaction closing.• Broad business diagnostics focused on identifying profit improvement opportunities across all functional areas, including product development, manufacturing, finance and sales and marketing• Growth strategy development and implementation with an emphasis on market extension, new market entry, channel management and organizational design • Financial modeling, forecasting, analytics and valuation• Business plan review and strategic scenario analysis with a focus on shareholder value implications and capital opportunity trade-offs• General complex project and initiative management• Corporate performance management design and implementation• New venture development and spin-off execution, including equity and debt capital raising• Equity investment analysis

Led and managed a team of 25 financial analysts who provide recurring and customized financial and operational performance management scorecards, custom analytics and quantitative strategic insights to business unit leaders and other executive management at Zurich North America (ZNA), the U.S.-based property and casualty insurance subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services Group.Partner with business unit leaders to identify trends in key performance indicators and the impact of such trends on future business performance.Collaborate with Zurich senior executives in various functions to provide leadership and support to the financial performance management of NAC-wide strategic and operational priorities in customer centricity, transactional excellence, operational transformation and profitable growth.Provide quantitative analytics and fact-based financial support to business issue evaluation and problem-solving across all performance dimensions of Zurich North America.Design, develop and implement the PPM Analytics Competency organizational structure and operating model and build out processes and procedures to formalize roles, responsibilities and objectives.Maintain oversight and overall responsibility for PPM Analytics deliverable relevance, value and quality across business lenses; drive efficiency and consistency in recurring financial reporting and optimize capacity across the Analytics competency to enhance business insight generation.

Bridge Strategy Group is a boutique general management consulting firm founded by experienced practitioners from McKinsey, BCG, Booz Allen, Accenture and other leading consulting firms. Team with colleagues and client leadership to evaluate critical management issues and apply strategic, operational, organizational and technological solutions to solve business problems. Key engagements include: developing a smart grid demonstration program for a regional electric utility; developing an electric vehicle growth strategy for a Fortune 500 truck manufacturer; managing the integration of the combined power plant operations of two merging $1B electric utilities and designing an information technology outsourcing strategy for a global pharmaceutical company.

Archstone Consulting is a private equity-backed strategy and operations management consultancy founded by senior practitioners from Deloitte, A.T. Kearney and other leading consulting firms. Led consulting engagements to address senior executive and Board level issues, including: corporate and divisional strategic planning; M&A execution and integration; and organizational effectiveness. Engagements included developing a growth strategy and organizational redesign for a $2B apparel wholesaler, a market-based acquisition strategy for a global $7B industrial supplies distributor and a sales and marketing integration strategy for two merging multi-national pharmaceutical companies.

Managed consulting teams on a variety of engagements involving: corporate and business unit strategy development and implementation; M&A and post merger integration; financial and operational performance improvement; and performance management process design and implementation.Engagements included M&A due diligence, synergy analysis and integration planning for several industrial clients as well as working with senior client executives in assessing the capital market implications of various resource allocation and other strategic and operational management decisions. Led the Deloitte Value Centers, a team of 20 consultants who specialized in using economic performance models to link corporate planning and operational improvements with shareholder value creation. The team was responsible for supporting $250 million in new business generation in 2005.Consistently chosen to work with Deloitte Consulting leadership to address Firm strategy and refine service offerings and organize and lead market offering development and innovation activities. Evaluated and executed venture spin-offs, growth equity investments and alliance partnerships for Deloitte Consulting Ventures. Led teams in opportunity validation through transaction negotiation.

Teamed with client management and shareholders to manage the execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and/or other business combinations for consumer and industrial products companies.Defined acquisition objectives; evaluated potential buyers or acquisition candidates; determined valuation ranges; performed due diligence reviews; prepared transaction documentation; coached management presentations; structured transactions; and, assisted in negotiations through closing.Representative U.S. engagements included the sale of an $80 million giftware distributor to one of the country’s largest buyout funds, the sale of a $50 million telephone-based customer service outsourcer to a Fortune 500 company and multiple acquisition advisory mandates for a publicly traded water utility. Performed market-based evaluations of capital market alternatives to assist shareholders and executives in making decisions regarding capital, liquidity, management succession and shareholder control.Chosen to integrate and collaborate with the Price Waterhouse U.K. M&A practice to initiate and manage the execution of cross border M&A transactions and financial advisory assignments for multi-industry Corporate Finance clients in the U.K., Continental Europe and North America.Representative U.K. engagements included multiple cross border sale assignments and various acquisition advisory mandates, including one for a large British water utility and one for Berlin’s water utility.

Teamed with client management and shareholders to manage the execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and/or other business combinations for consumer and industrial products companies.Defined acquisition objectives; evaluated potential buyers or acquisition candidates; determined valuation ranges; performed due diligence reviews; prepared transaction documentation; coached management presentations; structured transactions; and, assisted in negotiations through closing.Representative engagements included the sale of an $80 million giftware distributor to one of the country's largest buyout funds, the sale of a $50 million telephone-based customer service outsourcer to a Fortune 500 company and multiple acquisition advisory mandates for a publicly traded water utility. Performed market-based evaluations of capital market alternatives to assist shareholders and executives in making decisions regarding capital, liquidity, management succession and shareholder control.

Teamed with senior bankers and client executives to initiate and execute mergers and acquisitions and public and private debt and equity offerings for consumer and industrial products companies.Performed industry and market research; developed new business proposals; performed financial due diligence; provided valuation and financial modeling expertise; and drafted transaction documentation.