
GOLD SPONSORS:

Baker Donelson is a national law firm with more than 700 attorneys and public policy advisors representing more than 30 practice areas to serve a wide range of legal needs. Clients receive knowledgeable guidance from experienced, multi-disciplined industry and client service teams, all seamlessly connected across more than 20 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
SILVER SPONSOR:

Cascade Partners is a boutique investment banking firm focused on industrial, healthcare, personal injury, business services, and manufacturing middle-market businesses. Manufacturing and related business services are Cascade Partners’ passions and specialties. With more than 250 years of combined experience, we work with business owners and shareholders to achieve their objectives and explain the impact and opportunity of their options. Our expertise extends beyond just being transaction advisors, too. We have been operators and board members and made personal investments in services firms. From buy-side and sell-side advisory services to securing growth financing, restructurings, or recapitalizing your business, our expertise and insight go deeper than the economic factors of a deal. We recognize and respect the long-term impact of transactions on our clients’ companies, employees, families, wealth, and personal lives. We are committed to creating not only long-term value for companies but transformative solutions for people.

Deerpath Capital Philosophy: Our experienced and empowered team allows us to respond timely to equity owners and company management teams while simultaneously delivering consistent value to our investors. We maintain a long history of scaling our investment to match the borrower’s financing needs and working with private equity sponsors to nurture long-term growth. Deerpath’s mission is to be a leading middle market direct lending firm with a singular focus on building valuable long-term relationships with our investors, borrowers, equity sponsors and management teams. For more information, please go to: https://www.deerpathcapital.com/


VERTESS is an international healthcare M&A advisory and consulting firm with more than 100 years of collective executive and transaction experience. Our team members have an extensive background in launching, building, and successfully exiting their own healthcare companies. We have an exceptionally strong presence in several healthcare verticals, where we have been one of the leading national M+A intermediary services for the past decade. We focus primarily on the personal and professional goals of our clients, thus helping facilitate transactions that make the most sense for them. For more information go to: http://vertess.com