In recent years, consolidation among "bulge bracket" investment banks and larger boutiques has reduced the number of firms willing and able to meet the advisory and transactional needs of many outstanding financial sponsors, corporations and management teams. As a result, a significant segment of public, private and financial sponsor-owned enterprises are underserved and lack sufficient access to senior, high-quality investment banking expertise.

Watch Hill Partners is devoted to meeting those needs. We offer senior-level attention and transactional experience, including access to key decision makers at many of the world's leading private equity firms, financial institutions and corporations. Clients value our commitment to providing objective advice coupled with the highest level of confidentiality. As we are purely an advisory firm, we have no other departments or factions that compromise our client advice.

Financial sponsors face multiple challenges as they seek to identify, acquire, finance and ultimately realize value from their portfolio companies. With private equity firms raising ever-larger funds and with many new firms entering an already crowded marketplace, these firms play an increasingly important role in the M&A marketplace.

We have deeply rooted and longstanding relationships within the financial sponsor community and across the corporate world. As such, we are well positioned to advise both sponsors and corporations on M&A and corporate finance transactions on an objective basis, free of conflicts.