Sonenshine Partners
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Sonenshine Partners, is a boutique investment bank
based in New York City that offers integrated strategic and financial advisory services. The firm was founded in 2000 and is led by Marshall Sonenshine and Carlo Bronzini Vender, who were members of Wolfensohn.
Sonenshine Partners has completed billions of dollars in global mergers and acquisitions
, financing and restructuring deals to date in a broad range of industries, including technology
, retail
and consumer
, media
and communications, business services and software, health care
, manufacturing
, and financial services
. Sonenshine Partners has advised such clients as 1-800 CONTACTS, Beverages and More, Borders Group
, Sonus Faber, Atrica, Riverstone, NewSouth, Hewitt Associates
, ProQuest
, i2 Technologies
, ABAQUS
, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Hamilton Fixture, Manufacturing Services Limited and Opera.
Sonenshine Partners' board of advisers includes: Harry Durity, Chairman of National Medical Health Card Systems and former Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Business Development for Automatic Data Processing Inc.; Kay Koplovitz, former CEO of USA Networks; Arthur B. Laffer, leading economist and former Economic Advisor to U.S. President Ronald Reagan
; Rafael Pastor, CEO of Vistage International – a global corporate membership organization backed by Thomson Corporation
– and former Executive Vice President of News Corporation
; and Alok Singh, a managing director at private equity firm New Mountain Capital
.
Boutique investment bank
A boutique investment bank is a small investment bank that specializes in primarily investment banking. Usually they work on smaller deals, typically less than a billion dollars, and usually assist on the sell-side in M&A transactions. In addition they sometimes specialize in certain industries...
based in New York City that offers integrated strategic and financial advisory services. The firm was founded in 2000 and is led by Marshall Sonenshine and Carlo Bronzini Vender, who were members of Wolfensohn.
Sonenshine Partners has completed billions of dollars in global mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...
, financing and restructuring deals to date in a broad range of industries, including technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, retail
Retail
Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
and consumer
Consumer
Consumer is a broad label for any individuals or households that use goods generated within the economy. The concept of a consumer occurs in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary.-Economics and marketing:...
, media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
and communications, business services and software, health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, and financial services
Financial services
Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...
. Sonenshine Partners has advised such clients as 1-800 CONTACTS, Beverages and More, Borders Group
Borders Group
Borders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....
, Sonus Faber, Atrica, Riverstone, NewSouth, Hewitt Associates
Hewitt Associates
Hewitt Associates , based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States was a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm delivering a complete range of integrated services to help companies manage their total HR and employee costs, enhance HR services, and improve their workforces.Hewitt...
, ProQuest
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...
, i2 Technologies
I2 Technologies
i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas...
, ABAQUS
Abaqus
Abaqus FEA is a suite of software applications for finite element analysis and computer-aided engineering, originally released in 1978...
, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Hamilton Fixture, Manufacturing Services Limited and Opera.
Sonenshine Partners' board of advisers includes: Harry Durity, Chairman of National Medical Health Card Systems and former Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Business Development for Automatic Data Processing Inc.; Kay Koplovitz, former CEO of USA Networks; Arthur B. Laffer, leading economist and former Economic Advisor to U.S. President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
; Rafael Pastor, CEO of Vistage International – a global corporate membership organization backed by Thomson Corporation
Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies.Thomson was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science & technology research, and tax & accounting sectors...
– and former Executive Vice President of News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
; and Alok Singh, a managing director at private equity firm New Mountain Capital
New Mountain Capital
New Mountain Capital is a firm dealing in private equity and growth capital investments across acyclical growth industries. The firm emphasizes growth and business building, rather than high risk or debt leverage, in its investments...
.