This firm
Investment banking observed on 12 deals, 10 for independent sponsors.
Composed from the observed record.
- Independent sponsor deals
- 10
- All observed deals
- 12
- Sponsor clients
- 9
- Repeat clients
- 1
- Latest deal
- Mar 11, 2026
The firm's name, 20 additional professionals, 22 additional client and capital relationships, 9 additional observed deals
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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10 independent sponsor deals for 9 sponsors, 1 of them more than once. Jul 20, 2006 to Mar 11, 2026; 1 in the last 12 months. It is on 12 observed deals in all; on the other 2 the buyer was a strategic acquirer or a lender, not an independent sponsor.
9 more facts and signals are on record for this page. They name the firms involved and open with Independent Sponsor Intelligence.
- Mar 11, 2026Sell-side advisorSell-side advisor for Watershield Industries · Mar 11, 2026HKWpublished Mar 11, 2026
- Jan 23, 2025Sell-side advisorSell-side advisor · Jan 23, 2025no URL
- May 1, 2024Sell-side advisorSell-side advisor · May 1, 2024no URL
- Valley Ridge Investment PartnersRepeat client2 dealsSell-side advisor · Jan 6, 2021 to Nov 23, 2021 · latest deal no URL
- HKW Management1 dealSell-side advisor · Mar 11, 2026 · latest deal hkwinc.com
- Rock Gate Partners1 dealSell-side advisor · Jan 23, 2025 · latest deal no URL
- Ironwood Capital2 shared deals
- Byline Sponsor Finance Group1 shared deal
- Capital For Business (CFB)1 shared deal
Who did the work, by the deals they are named on.
- R.B. Kiernat · Managing Director5 deals
- Jared Rance · Managing Director3 deals
- Gary T. O'Brien · Managing Director3 deals
No deal on record stated a value.
Headquarters Minneapolis, MN. Deal companies in MN 2, WI 2, AL 1, FL 1, IL 1, ME 1, SD 1.
- Valley Ridge Investment Partnerssponsor · 2
- Ironwood Capitalcapital · 2
- HKW Managementsponsor · 1
- Rock Gate Partnerssponsor · 1
- Byline Sponsor Finance Groupcapital · 1
- Capital For Business (CFB)capital · 1
Contact details for named professionals open with the product, the same way as on every other record.
Also named here, with no published line of their own (reach them through the firm): Andy Jordahl (Vice President), Mike Mayrand (Vice President), Nathan Stublaski (Vice President).
Who to call is the organisation, the person's role and the line they published themselves: a business phone, office address, website or profile link from Form ADV, Form 13F or their own website, with that source named on every value. The counts above are what a reveal returns; a personal email is rarely published, so most reveals are the firm's line. Never data bought from a provider, never anything personal. Reveals by plan