M&A and Strategic Advisory
WHAT WE DO
Expert Independent Advice for Complex Situations
M&A is the core of Solomon’s advisory services. Our bankers have unparalleled track records, providing comprehensive strategic solutions tailored to generate long-term shareholder value.
Our team of dedicated M&A bankers specializes in complex M&A assignments, advising boards and special committees on navigating highly scrutinized situations.
Solomon is free from conflicts of interest, and our senior bankers bring judgement and integrity to each assignment. We have decades of public company M&A experience and provide expert negotiation support and valuation analysis. Our teams work on complicated and transformational assignments including:
- Sellside, buyside and strategic advisory
- Special Committees, including related party and control shareholder transactions
- Fairness opinions
- Activism defense
Cross-Border M&A
In addition to our M&A practice in the U.S., Solomon has a global network of M&A bankers through its parent company, Natixis. As an independently operated affiliate of Natixis, part of Groupe BPCE, we bring seamless coordination to all cross-border assignments. We leverage our M&A expertise, financing capabilities and networks in key locations worldwide and across industry sectors.
As companies increasingly operate in a global landscape, acquisition activity beyond local borders is often considered to grow market share and expand customer segments. Whether the goal is to pursue international acquisitions or raise capital in foreign markets, we are uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive strategic M&A and financing solutions, while leveraging a global network to yield optimal results.
- 600+ M&A professionals across Corporate & Investment Banking offices throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas
- Experienced bankers in numerous geographic coverage areas who pair industry expertise with local knowledge, perspective and relationships
- Capital raising for acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and recapitalizations
- Significant cross-border transaction experience complemented by multi-currency funding capabilities
M&A and Strategic Advisory Transactions
Serving as financial advisor to the Special Committee of Guess?, Inc.'s Board of Directors on Guess?, Inc.’s take-private transaction
August 2025
Served as financial advisor to the Transaction Committee of VOXX's Board of Directors on its sale to Gentex Corporation
April 2025
Served as financial advisor to Willow Innovations on its acquisition of Elvie
March 2025
Served as financial advisor to PointOne Data Centers on its strategic partnership with a global investment management firm, with approximately $37 billion AUM, to support the execution of PointOne’s hyperscale data center campuses across Virginia
February 2025
Served as financial advisor to Fresh Encounter Inc. on its sale to SpartanNash
December 2024
Served as financial advisor to United Fiber & Data on its sale to Lightpath
November 2024
Served as financial advisor to S&S Activewear on its acquisition of alphabroder
October 2024
Served as financial advisor to F9 Brands, Inc., parent company of Cabinets to Go, on its acquisition of certain assets of LL Flooring Holdings, Inc. through a §363 transaction
October 2024
Served as strategic and financial advisor to Shaker Auto Lease, Inc. on its sale to Jim Pattison Lease
September 2024
Served as financial advisor to Apax Funds on its acquisition of Altus Fire & Life Safety
September 2024
Served as financial advisor to FATTY Smoked Meat Sticks on its sale to Conagra Brands
August 2024
Served as financial advisor to Platinum Equity on its acquisition of ASP Global
August 2024
Served as financial advisor to Wilshire on its acquisition of XTP
August 2024
Serving as strategic and financial advisor to ONEX on its acquisition of Farsound Aviation
August 2024
Serving as a financial advisor to HBC on its pending acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group
July 2024
Served as financial advisor to Hibbett, Inc. on its sale to JD Sports Fashion plc
July 2024
Serving as financial advisor to Saks Fifth Avenue on its agreement to move its credit card program and portfolio to Bread Financial from Capital One
June 2024
Served as financial advisor to Reg-Room on its sale to CUBE
May 2024
Served as financial advisor to Wilshire on its acquisition of Lyxor U.S. from Amundi
December 2023
Served as financial advisor to the Special Committee of System1’s Board of Directors on its sale of Total Security to Just Develop It
November 2023
Served as M&A and restructuring advisor to Ares on its sale of Newark Energy Center, a 705 MW Combined Cycle Facility in PJM PS-North, to Hartree Partners
July 2023
Served as financial advisor to Wilshire on its launch of Wilshire Indexes, and its strategic partnership with SGX group and the Financial Times
March 2023
Served as exclusive financial advisor to Imperfect Foods on its sale to Misfits Market
November 2022
Served as financial advisor to Freeman Spogli on its partnership with NearU Services
August 2022
Served as financial advisor providing a fairness opinion to the Board of CC Neuberger
July 2022
Served as exclusive financial advisor to Pacific Outdoor Advertising on the sale of its Portland portfolio and other assets aggregating ~1000 displays to OUTFRONT Media
May 2022
Served as financial advisor to York Private Equity on its acquisition of Healthcare Linen Services Group
April 2022
Served as financial advisor to CIBC on its acquisition of the Costco Canada credit card portfolio from Capital One
March 2022
Served as financial advisor to The Save Mart Companies on its sale to Kingswood Capital Management
March 2022
Solomon Partners served as financial advisor to Propex on its sale to Solmax
December 2021
Served as financial advisor to Price Chopper / Market 32 on its merger with Tops Markets
November 2021
Served as financial advisor to Oaktree Transportation Infrastructure Fund on its sale of its majority stake in Ports America
November 2021
Served as exclusive financial advisor to Panalgo on its sale to MMIT & Evaluate, a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Hg portfolio company
October 2021
Serving as financial advisor to I Squared Capital on its pending acquisition of KIO Networks
August 2021
Served as financial advisor to EDF on the Sale of its 49.99% Interest in CENG, a 4.0 GW nuclear portfolio located in PJM and NYISO, to Exelon for net proceeds of $885 million
August 2021
Served as exclusive financial advisor to PVH Corp. on its sale of certain intellectual property and other assets of its Heritage Brands business to Authentic Brands Group
August 2021
Serving as financial advisor to Hawaiki on its sale to BW Group
July 2021
Served as financial advisor to Ares and Oaktree on the Sale of their 28% Combined Interest in Linden Cogeneration, a 972 MW Combined Cycle Cogeneration Facility in NYISO Zone J
June 2021
Served as financial advisor to Foris on its sale to Alight Media
May 2021
Served as financial advisor to Wyyerd on its growth equity raise from The Carlyle Group
March 2021
Served as financial advisor to Ridgewood Infrastructure on its investment into Environmental Infrastructure Partners
March 2021
Served as sole financial advisor to PayBright on its sale to Affirm
January 2021
Advised Investor Group on its Acquisition of Wilshire Associates
January 2021
Served as co-financial advisor to Red Lobster on its refinancing of existing credit facilities
January 2021
Served as advisor to Mood Media on its sale to Vector Capital
December 2020
Served as financial advisor to Vero Fiber Networks on its investment from Ariet Capital
December 2020
Advised Accel-KKR on its sale of TrueCommerce to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS)
December 2020
Served as sole financial advisor to Mattress Firm on its amendment of its consumer financing partnership with Synchrony Financial
December 2020
Advised Capital Brands on its sale to De’Longhi S.p.A. for approximately $420 million
November 2020
Served as financial advisor to New Mountain Capital on its acquisition of Natrol from Aurobindo Pharma
November 2020
Served as financial advisor to GCM Grosvenor on its sale of a minority stake in the I-77 Express Lanes P3 project
November 2020
Served as financial advisor to Chico's on its $285mm Revolving Credit Facility and $15mm FILO
October 2020
Served as financial advisor to Brooks Brothers on its Chapter 11 proceedings
August 2020
Solomon Partners advised Designer Brands Inc. on a new $400 million ABL and $250 million Senior Secured Term loan.
August 2020
Served as financial advisor to US Wind on a strategic investment by Apollo in the premier US offshore wind developer
August 2020
Served as financial advisor to Fairway Market on the sale of select stores and distribution center to Village Super Markets, Key Foods, Amazon and Bogopa
July 2020
Serving as financial advisor to Southeastern Grocers on its sale of 62 stores and a distribution center to Ahold Delhaize and served as financial advisor on the sale of selected pharmacy assets to Walgreens and CVS
July 2020
Advised Astoria Project Partners LLC and Astoria Project Partners II LLC on the sale of 100% of Astoria Energy I and approximately 55% of Astoria Energy II (together, “Astoria Energy”), representing two of the most efficient natural gas power plants in the premium New York City power market.
June 2020
Served as financial advisor to Lucky’s Markets on the sale of select stores to ALDI, Publix, Southeastern Grocers, Schnucks, Hitchcocks and Seabra Foods
May 2020
Served as financial advisor to StackPath and lead placement agent on its Series B round of equity financing led by Juniper Networks, Inc. and Cox Communications Inc.
March 2020
Solomon Partners served as financial advisor to Star Cinema Grill on its pending sale to CMX Cinemas.
March 2020
Served as financial advisor to Genesco on its acquisition of Togast LLC
January 2020
Serving as exclusive financial advisor to the Special Committee of Stein Mart on its announced sale to Kingswood and Jay Stein
January 2020
Served as financial advisor to New Seasons Market / New Leaf Community Markets on its sale to Good Food Holdings
January 2020
Served as financial advisor to Five Below on its acquisition of e-commerce, fulfillment and select other assets from Hollar.com.
December 2019
Served as financial advisor to PVH on its joint venture with Basic Resources for all of its socks and hosiery brands in the US and Canada and to terminate early the licenses for the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger socks and hosiery businesses.
December 2019
Serving as financial advisor to Vivendi on the sale of its 10% stake in Universal Music Group to a consortium led by Tencent
December 2019
Served as advisor to Hudson’s Bay Company on its sale of Lord + Taylor to Le Tote.
November 2019
Served as advisor to Third Coast Midstream on the sale of Lavaca Gas, its Eagle Ford gas gathering infrastructure assets, to Starwood Energy.
November 2019
Served as advisor to Five Below on its role as lead investor in Nerd Street Gamers’ Series A financing round.
October 2019
Served as advisor to Banijay Group on its acquisition of Endemol Shine Group from joint owners Apollo and Disney / Fox.
October 2019
Served as strategic and financial advisor to Total Outdoor on the sale of its Chicago out of home media assets to OUTFRONT
September 2019
Served as financial advisor to MJR Digital Cinemas in its sale to Kinepolis Group.
September 2019
Served as financial advisor to Fred’s on the sale of its pharmacy assets to CVS.
August 2019
Served as financial advisor to Barnes & Noble Founder, Chairman and 19% equity holder, Len Riggio on the sale of the Company to Elliott Management, owner of Waterstones.
August 2019
Serving as investment banker to IPIC Entertainment on its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
August 2019
Served as financial advisor to majority equity holder in its recapitalization with a leading global infrastructure investor.
August 2019
Served as strategic and financial advisor to Total Outdoor on the sale of select out of home media assets to American Tower
July 2019
Advised Moviehouse & Eatery, an upscale dine-in movie theater circuit in Texas, on its sale to Cinépolis.
July 2019
Served as strategic and financial advisor to Total Outdoor on the sale of its San Francisco out of home media assets to New Tradition Media
July 2019
Served as exclusive financial advisor to Arteriors on its sale to Norwest Equity Partners.
June 2019
Served as financial advisor to OpCapita LLP on both its carve-out acquisition of maurices from Ascena Retail Group and a $125M Senior Secured Credit Facility in connection with the transaction.
May 2019
Served as exclusive financial advisor to B&G Foods, Inc. on its acquisition of Clabber Girl Corporation, the leading retail baking powder brand in the US.
May 2019
Advised 3Gtms, a global provider of Tier 1 transportation management software solutions, on its sale of a majority stake to Sumeru Equity Partners
April 2019
Served as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Broadsign on its acquisition of Ayuda Media Systems
April 2019
Financial advisor to Ares-EIF and Starwood Energy on the sale of a 94% interest in Hudson Transmission Partners, a 660 MW HVDC transmission system in New York, to Argo Infrastructure
March 2019
Served as financial advisor to Oaktree Capital and its partners on the sale of their interest in the West of Devers HVDC transmission line in California to Axium Infrastructure
March 2019
Served as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Total Outdoor on the sale of its Seattle Advertising Portfolio to Pacific Outdoor Advertising
December 2018
Served as financial advisor to Best Market on its sale to Lidl US
December 2018
Served as financial advisor to Fred’s on the sale of its pharmacy assets to Walgreens
December 2018
Financial advisor to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure on the acquisition of a 100% interest in the Bayonne Energy Center, a 644 MW gas-fired peaking power facility in New Jersey, from Macquarie
October 2018
Financial advisor to HBC on its sale of real estate assets to Signa and the formation of a joint venture between HBC Europe and Karstadt.
September 2018
Advised The Finish Line, Inc. on its sale to JD Sports Fashion Plc
June 2018
Served as financial advisor to DSW who acquired the remaining outstanding equity interests of Town Shoes
May 2018
Served as advisor to the steering committee of bondholders in the restructuring of $2.8 billion of liabilities and raising of $350 million of new capital through a joint sauvegarde in France and a Chapter 11 in the U.S.
March 2018
Served as financial advisor to Groupe Rocher on its pending acquisition of Arbonne International
February 2018
Served as exclusive financial advisor to Cobb Theatres in connection with its sale to CMX Cinemas
October 2017
Advised Macquarie Atlas Roads in connection with its acquisition of the remaining 50% economic interest in the Dulles Greenway
May 2017
Advised Nutraceutical International Corp. in connection with its sale to private equity firm HGGC LLC
May 2017
Served as financial advisor to Altran on the divestiture of its U.S. Power & Industrial Engineering Services Division to CriticalPoint Capital
January 2017
Served as advisor to the company on its sale of a collection of theatres to Cinépolis
July 2016
Formed a JV to distribute Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Warner's, Olga and Speedo in Mexico
May 2016
Advised the company on its pending acquisition from Apax Partners of the remaining interests in the Tommy Hilfiger China Joint Venture
February 2016
Advised the company on the sale of its Boston Proper direct-to-consumer business to Brentwood Associates
February 2016
Served as advisor to TJX on its acquisition of Trade Secret
July 2015
Served as advisor to founders of SoulCycle on its minority investment from Equinox
May 2015
Advised the London Stock Exchange Group on its acquisition of Frank Russell Company
June 2014
Represented the Special Committee of the Board of Directors in a “going-private” transaction with the Weiss Family.
April 2013
Advised FTSE Group in the formation of a joint venture with TMX Datalinx.
February 2013
Advised the company on its merger with Perfumania Holdings, Inc.
April 2012
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