Happy New Year! Welcome to the December issue of ACM Capital Partners’ Value Line newsletter. In this issue you will find details of two new engagements – a $50 million produce purveyor, a $20 million pharmaceutical manufacturer and the addition of a new key member to our growing team.
ACM ENGAGED TO PROVIDE ADVISORY SERVICES TO $50M EUROPEAN FOOD PURVEYOR
This $50 million purveyor sources fruits (including his own farm) from South America and distributes with a partner throughout Europe. While financially healthy, the client is transitioning from a startup to a high growth entity and has retained ACM to assist them with personnel, fresh capital and two potential add-on acquisitions.
The assignment is the third in the produce space for which ACM has become engaged in five months. The firm’s expertise in this growing industry is becoming a critical component to our ability to quickly step in and assist these clients. All three active clients are financially healthy but all are in transition – high growth or managerial or both. “This client has gone from zero to $50 million in revenue in two short years,” said Jim Martin, Managing Partner of ACM Capital Partners. “The CEO has done a great job setting this business up. Now we need to help him get to the next level as expeditiously and smoothly as possible.”
ACM RETAINED TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES TO A $20M NUTRACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER
ACM has been retained to provide financial advisory services to a $20 million nutraceutical manufacturer located in the Southeast. The company manufacturers its product and sells throughout the US and Canada.
ACM professionals stepped in to analyze the capital need for this business and to assist them with the restructuring of their balance sheet. While the sales channels and opportunity for this business remain vibrant, the balance sheet needs to be cleaned up from the Great Recession; and a fresh capital injection can help take advantage of its market position “We are excited to be assisting this growing business at such a critical period of its life cycle”, said Jim Martin. “As North America’s aging population grows, this $80 billion market will only become stronger in the coming years.”
ACM ADDS FORMER HURON CONSULTANT TO ITS GROWING TEAM
The firm announced that its related company, ACM Capital Fund I, has provided bridge financing to an existing client The firm announced the addition of Ms. Gayla Bella as a Director to its growing team. Ms. Bella joins the firm after seven years with Huron Consulting in Chicago and later Miami. Ms. Bella brings a wealth of expertise to the ACM team. “We are very pleased that we could add a professional of Ms. Bella’s caliber to our team,” said Jim Martin. “Not only can she step in as an interim financial or operations executive, but she can run a bankruptcy process, assist with our ABC and Receivership work as well as run cash flow and budgeting forecasting for our growing private equity clients.”
