Mergers & Acquisitions

Trusted Advisor

Imperial Capital is a trusted advisor to management and boards of middle market companies and private equity funds. Through our significant transaction experience and extensive relationships with strategic and financial buyers, we deliver strong results for our clients. Our professionals have unique perspective and significant experience assisting clients navigate through complex transactions and various market cycles.

Through our Capital Markets Group and Institutional Sales and Trading Group, we have the ability to raise transaction-related financing across the capital structure to meet a wide variety of client goals. We have significant experience in raising growth capital, acquisition financing and management, and sponsor-led buyouts, as well as the ability to critically evaluate, on behalf of our clients, the prospective financing strategies of counterparties with whom they may be negotiating.

  • Expertise in strategic acquisitions of companies through the purchase of their debt
  • Strong buy-side, sell-side and distressed situations experience
  • Ability to provide/arrange acquisition financing for buyers even in tough markets
  • Transactions ranging from $25 million to $1 billion
  • Board advisory/Strategic alternatives

For further information on Imperial Capital's capabilities, please contact:

John E. Mack III

Co-Manager, Investment Banking Group
Head of Mergers and Acquisitons
(310) 246-3705
jmack@imperialcapital.com

John E. Mack III is Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Imperial Capital. Mr. Mack joined Imperial Capital in 2008 as part of the firm’s acquisition of certain assets of USBX Inc., an investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mack was founder and Chief Executive Officer of USBX. Prior to USBX, Mr. Mack served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Protection One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PONE), then the nation's second largest provider of life safety and property monitoring services. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, Mr. Mack held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Development, where he was involved in over 200 acquisitions and oversaw the company’s growth from approximately 30,000 subscribers and $17 million in revenue to more than 1.6 million subscribers, $600 million in revenue and an enterprise value of over $2 billion. Before joining Protection One, Mr. Mack was a Senior Executive Officer with Westec Security, Inc. and prior to Westec he was a Senior Executive Officer with MCM, Inc., dba FAFCO Solar of Northern California. Mr. Mack earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the University of California at Los Angeles.