Corporations

Driving Success for Corporations

As a trusted advisor to leading corporations, First National Investment Banking provides products and services that help corporate clients with mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, and other investment initiatives essential for growth. Keen insights gleaned from a wealth of business sector experience enable us to be a valued partner from our first conversation through transaction execution.

First National Mergers & Acquisition, Inc. Services

  • Advisory
    We work with private equity fund partners, boards and management teams to analyze, structure and execute buy-side and sell-side merger and acquisition transactions. We have the depth of contacts and resources to run highly competitive auction processes or discreet divestitures to a select group of targets. We can assist in identifying acquisitions, buying or merging with a competitor to increase market share, acquiring a business to enter new markets or acquiring a service provider to achieve vertical or horizontal integration synergies. Our mission is to provide the best M&A advisory services in the middle market, and it is the foundation upon which we have built our business. Our proven professionals bring their strategic thinking, depth of experience, creativity, and attention to detail to each transaction. The result: A record of performance that exceeds our clients' expectations and is unmatched by any other firm in the middle market. FNIB can also help our clients determine the optimal capital structure based on their objectives and identifies the most cost-effective financial instruments available. We then help our clients obtain capital quickly and efficiently. Our financing services include structuring and placing both debt and equity in the private market. Typical financing includes growth capital, acquisition financing, recapitalizations, and buyouts. We focus on specific terms and conditions to ensure that our clients have the flexibility to execute an existing corporate strategy and pursue multiple growth scenarios.
  • Management Buyout
    We help both management teams of operating companies and private equity firms to structure creative ways to obtain control of a company, subsidiary or asset.
  • Strategic Advisory
    We carefully analyze market conditions, industry dynamics and ownership trends to help companies evaluate and execute creative growth strategies. This focus includes build versus buy alternatives, defense positioning, holding company formation, exit planning and refinancing or restructuring.

First National Capital Markets Products

  • Fixed Income
    A multidisciplinary approach in which our institutional brokers apply their experience in the banking, insurance, municipal and public sectors to help you understand today's complex bond market.
  • Interest Rate Derivatives
    Sound strategies for hedging your company's interest rate risk and managing interest cost. Available from FNCM's affiliate banks and customized to suit your unique risk management requirements.
  • Financial Strategies
    Bringing the most comprehensive asset/liability management and budgeting service to your portfolio, creating sophisticated reporting tools for your asset/liability management needs.
  • SID Programs
    Would you benefit from direct access to tax-exempt municipal debt? Thanks to First National Capital Markets and First National Bank, you don't have to be an active buyer to take advantage of the financial returns offered by Sanitary and Improvement District (SID) debt.

First Capital Partners, LLC

  • Mezzanine Capital
    First Capital Partners LLC is a direct investor of mezzanine capital into profitable middle market businesses. Mezzanine capital is long-term debt that is between senior bank debt and private equity. It is similar to private equity in that it facilitates corporate buyouts, share repurchases or internal growth.
  • Private Equity
    First Capital Partners LLC is a direct investor of private equity into profitable middle market businesses. Private equity provides a company with long-term capital in order to facilitate corporate buyouts, share repurchases or internal growth. Our private equity investments are typically made in combination with a mezzanine capital investment.
 


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