Our M&A practice is built upon the premise of becoming a trusted advisor to our clients, providing them with sound advice and not simply the expedient answer. Our senior M&A practitioners bring extensive experience to bear on transactions that are often overlooked at larger banks. We offer world class, sophisticated advice to growth companies and compete on the quality of our professionals and the focus that we can bring from our entire organization. Since our inception, we have advised on over 170 transactions for an aggregate value of $110 billion, with sizes ranging from over $40 billion to those of approximately $75 million. More than 40% of our transactions have occurred between $100 million and $1 billion in value.

Our approach is to marry the execution capabilities of our M&A team with the industry focused bankers, to provide holistic advice both strategically and tactically. Within our core sectors, we excel at highly structured and complex transactions, as well as running meticulously orchestrated auctions. We have broad experience with public and private companies, sponsor-backed firms, Special Committee assignments (such as go-private transactions), and we are evenly split between buy-side and sell-side assignments. We offer acquisition finance services that help our clients raise debt capital objectively, without being burdened with the conflicts inherent from a lending practice. We also are able to access the firm’s public capital markets expertise to provide thoughtful views on how the market will react to certain transactions, structures and valuation, and help craft the message to public investors to help ensure that an acquisition is well received. This is a service our boutique competitors cannot offer.

We believe our independence, senior professional focus, industry knowledge and experience allows us to provide advice in change of control situations that lead to enhanced shareholder value. At Thomas Weisel Partners, our focus is building a business from references one client at a time.