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1. 7400 Beaufont Springs Dr.
Richmond, VA 23225
(804) 323-6868
www.transactcapital.com
Firm Overview
2. Transact Capital Partners’
Investment Banking Services
Transact Capital Partners is a premier boutique investment banking firm providing clients
with investment banking and consulting services with the goal of maximizing enterprise
value.
M&A Advisory
Sell-side Transact Capital Partners works to exceed client expectations and add substantial
Representation value to clients looking at selling, divesting, or merging businesses.
Assist clients in seeking an acquisition target, performing due diligence, building
Buy-side Advisory valuation and terms, and contract negotiations.
Assist promising growth companies in raising financing for growth, acquisition,
Recapitalization or shareholder liquidity objectives.
Financial Advisory and
Strategy Formulation
Assist businesses in dealing with unplanned events, assessing investment returns,
Strategic Consulting building valuation opinions and forecasting / modeling future operating scenarios.
Exit Strategy / Transact Capital Partners has many years of experience guiding clients through
Succession Planning exit and succession stages.
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3. Sell-side Representation
Transact Capital becomes trusted partner with owners to fully meet sale
objectives, including: confidentiality, price, terms, and culture.
Key Components of a
Successful Transaction
• Confidentiality
Process
• Minimize Owner Distractions
Price • Maximum Value
• Timing
Terms • Structure
• Ability to Close
• Employee Succession
Culture
• Integration and “Fit”
We align ourselves with your specific goals, and commit ourselves to achieving
those objectives with a “hands-on” approach from start to finish.
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4. Sell-side Representation
Our disciplined process, combined with our existing database of contacts and buyer
research/pursuit is all targeted to achieve your objectives.
General Sell-Side Process Prospective Buyer
Search Capabilities
Discovery Process with Client
Strengths/Weaknesses/Consultation Buyer
Research
Results
Establish an Estimated Price Range for the
Sale of the Business High net Private
worth Equity
Develop a Marketing Plan – Advertising, investors Groups
Teaser Letter & Key Prospects
TCP Buyer
Develop Comprehensive and Confidential Resources
Information Memorandum
Owner Strategic
Take to Market: Establish Competitive Contacts Acquirers
Environment, Create Sense of Urgency and
Solicit Final Bids
Business
Close the Deal – Negotiate Timetable/Terms/ Operators
Structure/Escrow/ Transition Considerations
Disciplined Process + Strong Buyer Search =
Maximum Value to our Client
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5. Recent Completed Transactions
has been acquired by
has been acquired by
has completed a
recapitalization and
management buyout
Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as the Transact Capital Partners acted as Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted the
exclusive partner to Richmond.com
advisor to Richmond.com the exclusive partner to InternDirect exclusive partner
exclusive advisor to PeakLogix
Three-Score
Nuckols Excavation, Inc. Metal Specialist, Inc.
Production, Inc.
has been acquired by has been acquired by has been acquired by
has been acquired by
has been acquired by
NVS Enterprise, Inc. EmergenceLabs, Inc. via
private equity funding
Transact Capital Partners acted as the Transact Capital Partners acted as
Transact Capital Partners acted as Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as the Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as the Transact Capital Partners acted as the
exclusive advisor to Nuckols Excavation
partner the exclusive partner to InternDirect
the exclusive partner to CCR Retail exclusive advisor to Metal Specialist
exclusive partner to Metal Specialist exclusive partner to Tama Home Health
exclusive advisor to Tama Home Health exclusive advisor to EmergenceLabs
All American Vending, Inc. Dave Ware
Container Company
has been acquired by
has been acquired by has been acquired by has been acquired by
has been acquired by has been acquired by
Assessor & Associates, Inc.
a private investor a private investor
Transact Capital Partners acted as as
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Transact Capital Partners acted as the
as the Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as the Transact Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as the
Transact Capital Partners acted as
the exclusive partner to Schmid Flags
exclusive advisor to Schmid Flags the exclusive partner to InternDirect
the exclusive partner to RHP exclusive partner to Allto CCR Retail
exclusive partner American Vending
advisor to All American Vending exclusive partner to
exclusive advisor to Brooks Gray Signs exclusive partner
exclusive advisor to Dave Ware Container
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6. Other Team Member Deals
was acquired by
sold its merchant portfolio to sold its merchant portfolio to
has been acquired by and entered into a strategic and entered into a strategic
relationship with relationship with
Raised more than Completed an Raised $1.2 billion in
Empeiria Capital $12 million in equity Initial Public Offering debt funding with 35
Partners funding banks participating
Broadcast Production Division
MEDIA of
GENERAL Media General
marketing ltd
CABLE
A Media General Company
has been sold to has been acquired by
was acquired by has been acquired by was acquired by
Raised more than $2
TM Communications
million in debt funding
In addition to these deals, individuals within our team have worked with many small, medium, and large private
equity groups in the past including:
Hick Muse | Texas Pacific Group | Austin Ventures | Francisco Partners | IFIL USA
Lehman Brothers Merchant Bank | Stone Tower Equity Partners | Empeiria Capital Partners
Virginia Capital Partners
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7. Strategic Growth Consulting and
Valuations
Some of our recent clients include:
Type of Engagement Client Sales
Strategic Growth Consulting Regional fire protection firm $10 Million
Valuation Regional Lumber Mill $24 Million
Strategic Consulting Supply Chain Software Developer $6 Million
Strategic Consulting (Capital Early Stage e-Commerce/Entertainment
N/A
Formation Advisory) Shopping Firm
Strategic Growth Consulting Major HealthCare Provider $5 Million
Buy-Side and Business Property and Casualty Insurance Rollup
N/A
Rollup Consulting Firm
Regional Light Manufacturer of Roadway
Consulting $12 Million
Infrastructure/Government Services Firm
Valuation IT Staffing Firm $3 million
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8. Transact Capital Partners Team
Our team represents decades of transactional and advisory experience aggregating
well over $1.5 billion in total dollar volume across hundreds of deals.
Steve Zacharias Stan Maupin
Managing Partner Managing Director
Barry Brigman Jim Sowers
Partner Director
Josh Allen Frank Andrews
Senior Analyst Managing Director
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9. Transact Capital Partners Team
Steve Zacharias
Managing Partner
steve@transactcapital.com
Steve is managing partner and founder of Transact Capital Partners, a Richmond Va. based investment banking and
business brokerage firm providing sale, merger and acquisition services along with exit strategy consulting for small to
mid-market businesses. Steve has over 25 years of financial related experience, including lead roles in numerous
acquisition and divestiture transactions, debt financings and capital fundings.
As a certified public accountant, Steve's early career included serving as senior auditor in the Richmond office of Ernst &
Young. He later served as audit director of a Fortune 1000 company and performed operational audits, acquisition and due
diligence reviews for its manufacturing, publishing and communications divisions.
From 1993 to 2000 Steve served as corporate treasurer of Media General, Inc., a $900 million media conglomerate where
his responsibilities included debt and treasury operations, corporate budgeting, strategic planning and growth initiatives.
During this time he led the corporate valuation and due diligence teams in acquiring over a dozen media and related
enterprises totaling well over $1 billion. He structured several private placements and bank credit facilities to support this
rapid growth, and led major re-engineering and process improvement initiatives to improve cash flows.
In 2001 Steve set up a private practice, which later became Transact, to assist early-stage and small companies in
financial advisory services, including acquisitions, fund-raisings and strategy formulation. Since that time Steve has
successfully negotiated and completed numerous sale transactions, private equity fund raisings, acquisition searches and
debt placements.
Steve has served as a board director for Hoovers, Inc., a publicly-traded business information company, since 1997. As a
director, he assisted the company in launching a successful IPO in 1999, served on the finance, nomination and CEO
search committees and chaired the audit committee. In this capacity, he and the board worked with S. G. Cowan in 2002 to
solicit acquisition bids for the company, and successfully sold all the stock of Hoovers to Dun & Bradstreet for over $100
million in March 2003.
Steve holds a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia with concentrations in accounting and finance. He currently sits
on the Board of Directors of Stockhouse Media Corp., a publicly traded internet media company based in the US and
Canada, and on the Advisory Board of CreditCards.com, a $100 million web marketing company serving credit card
issuers. He is a past board director for the Richmond chapter of the Association of Corporate Growth.
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10. Transact Capital Partners Team
Barry Brigman
Partner
barry@transactcapital.com
Barry L. Brigman has over 25 years of experience in assessing, acquiring and managing global businesses in a variety of industry
segments. Mr. Brigman has worked for both publicly and privately held companies and currently provides consulting, search and
due diligent services for private equity groups and individual companies. He has industry experience in automotive, bulk chemicals,
electronic components, computer/datacom, distribution services, telecommunications, textiles, gas and oil field services, contract
manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics and instrumentation.
From March 2003 to May 2005, Mr. Brigman was the Managing Partner for Hanley Partners Asia a global consulting group that
assisted North American and European middle market businesses to access the market opportunities; material and product
sourcing supply chains; and the manufacturing potential available in China.
Mr. Brigman was employed by Viasystems Group, Inc. from January 1997 to December 2002 as President of the Telecom Division,
President of the Global PCB business, President of the Americas and Executive Vice President responsible for global business
functions within Viasystems Group, Inc. Viasystems was a large printed circuit board and contract manufacturing company which
grew by acquisition from approximately $200 million in revenue to $1.5 billion with global manufacturing sites in the Americas,
Europe and China. The customer base included major OEM customers and suppliers in the telecom, datacom, automotive,
computer, instrumentation, medical and consumer industries.
Prior to Viasystems, Mr. Brigman was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas of Berg Electronics from March 1993.
During Mr. Brigman’s tenure, the company grew organically and through acquisitions to become a leading supplier in the
connector industry. Significant opportunities were developed in the Asia Pacific region with emphasis on growth in mainland China.
After more than doubling over a five-year period, Berg was sold in 1998 to Framatome Connectors International.
Prior to joining Berg, Mr. Brigman was employed by DuPont as the Director of Connector Systems - Americas from 1989 to 1993.
Mr. Brigman had held numerous professional and management positions in the Textile Fibers, Central Research and Development,
Medical Products, Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Plans and Electronics divisions of DuPont. He managed global businesses with
manufacturing and market presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Mr. Brigman joined DuPont in 1969.
In addition to his responsibilities at Transact Capital, Mr. Brigman is a director and Chairman of Conner Steel Products Holdings,
which supplies products to the oil and gas industry and the President and majority owner of Beech Tree Networks which provides
inside and outside installation of RF, fiber optic and standard cabling networks for companies in the mid-Atlantic region of the
United States.
Mr. Brigman holds a BS in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He and his wife currently live in Richmond, VA.
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11. Transact Capital Partners Team
Stan Maupin
Managing Director
stan@transactcapital.com
Stan has more than 20 years experience in providing advisory services in capital formation, business development and
financial and strategic planning to emerging and growth oriented companies. His specialty is creating shareholder value for
business owners. He is also a successful entrepreneur who has been a founder of several successful companies in a
variety of industries.
Stan started his career with 6 years in the consulting divisions of large international accounting firms. He began working
with emerging businesses by co-founding Office America, a big box retail chain that grew to more than $70 million in sales.
Stan later co-founded the Richmond Venture Forum, the e-Business Community, Richmond Ventures Magazine,
Technology Virginia Magazine and other similar ventures. He was a founder of the Virginia Technology Alliance and
served as Vice Chairman of the Virginia Technology Council. He has worked with more than 100 growth-oriented
businesses in projects ranging from start-up capital raises to securing growth capital to implementing exit strategies
including buyouts, mergers, public offerings and joint ventures. His clients include TransPharm, Inc, a bio-tech firm that
sold out to the British company that cloned Dolly and Commonwealth Technologies, Inc., the first Richmond based biotech
firm to go public.
Most recently, Stan was a founder and the CFO of EverDrive, LLC, a company that connects the thousands of small
automotive recyclers with the mass markets offered by retail automotive aftermarket chains. He initially consulted with the
founder on development of a business plan and securing key contracts. He then joined the company as its second
employee and helped raise the financing and execute the business plan that helped the company grow to more than 70
employees providing guaranteed used auto parts to consumers in more than 6,000 locations in the US.
He also has been active in political and community activities, having served as chairman of a number of business
organizations including the Richmond Venture Forum and the Greater Richmond Technology Council. He is also active in
Virginia's political sector, having served as treasurer of several campaigns for the Governor of Virginia and the U.S.
Senate. Mr. Maupin has been appointed to a number of technology and business related boards by Governors Allen and
Gilmore. He received the Leadership Award of the Greater Richmond Technology Council in 1998.
Stan has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Darden School of the University of
Virginia.
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12. Transact Capital Partners Team
Jim Sowers
Director
jim@transactcapital.com
Jim Sowers has over 25 years of finance experience in acquisitions and capital markets, including
investment banking experience with BB&T Capital Markets and Sovereign Advisors along with
corporate experience including IBM, GE, PepsiCo, and LandAmerica. Prior to joining us, Jim
managed LandAmerica’s acquisition and divestiture programs. As part of their bankruptcy, he sold
15 businesses and gained valuable experience in the 363 process of stalking horses and auctions.
Prior to LandAmerica, Jim was the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for GE’s Life
Insurance division where profits grew from $211 million in 2003 to $313 million in 2007.
Jim spent eight years as an investment banker for BB&T Capital Markets and Sovereign Advisors
where he specialized in restaurants and consumer products. He completed numerous transactions
including IPOs, selling companies, strategic acquisitions, raising private debt and equity, fairness
opinions, and business valuations. Jim advised on a host of transactions included the Krispy Kreme
IPO, a fairness opinion for a $350 million food acquisition, the purchase of a 200 unit restaurant
chain, and a going private transaction for public restaurant company.
Earlier in his career, Jim spent seven years with PepsiCo and their KFC division in treasury,
acquisitions, financial planning and analysis, and as a division CFO. Jim began his career as an
engineer with IBM and later worked in their treasury department in Armonk, New York.
Jim earned his B.S. in Systems Engineering and a M.B.A. from Darden at the University of Virginia.
He is a member of the Business School Advisory Committee for Virginia State University, the
Scholarship Committee of the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Henrico County Grand
Jury.
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13. Transact Capital Partners Team
Frank Andrews
Managing Director
frank@transactcapital.com
Frank Andrews joined Transact Capital Partners with nearly 20 years experience in the electronic payments industry as a
consultant as well as a corporate executive.
As a consultant, Frank’s experiences include M&A, marketing strategies and execution, loyalty program design,
partnership evaluation and negotiations, competitive analysis, market entry and revenue enhancements. These
experiences were gained from his efforts while with First Annapolis Consulting, a strategic management consulting firm
with a focus in the electronic payments industry. While with the company, Frank leveraged his consumer credit card
experiences in providing strategic advice to issuers, co-branded partners, and branded networks (e.g. Amex, MasterCard,
and Visa). These insights and experiences have provided industry-based perspectives not contained within the company.
Frank later established the Coniston Advisory Group which developed strategic and tactical initiatives on key business
development capabilities such as strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, data analysis and intelligence,
response marketing strategy and execution, electronic payment product optimization, and opportunity facilitation.
Frank’s corporate experiences included an extensive career at MBNA America where he held management positions of
increasing responsibility in areas of business development, market management, operations, and corporate strategy.
While with MBNA, he held a role as the senior executive of the company’s 500+ agent bank programs. In this capacity,
Frank had a significant role in acquisition efforts with many of the major agent bank acquisitions such as prospect sales,
conversion planning and integration, new product development and agent bank marketing. He was also the recognized
direct marketing expert for an ability to leverage analytics with marketing. Using sophisticated analytical techniques used
during his Naval service, Frank developed a business intelligence infrastructure that ensured his direct marketing efforts
had incremental improvement. As a result, his market segment programs lead the company’s direction marketing results 4
of 5 years.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Frank served onboard a nuclear powered submarine, received his Naval Nuclear
Engineer certification and later was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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14. Transact Capital Partners Team
Josh Allen
Senior Analyst
josh@transactcapital.com
Josh Allen joined Transact Capital Partners with over 2 years investment banking experience in corporate debt
research, business strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. He specializes in research, business valuations,
due diligence support, buyer research and contact, and client deliverable development.
Josh started his career at Virginia Tech where he was a founder and CEO of BASIS, a $5 million fixed income
portfolio. There he managed corporate debt research and facilitated all trades for fixed income securities.
Following graduation, Josh worked for First Annapolis, an international consulting and M&A advisory firm as a
Senior Analyst focusing on financial services consulting and M&A advisory. His experiences included strategic
partnership sourcing, expansion strategy consulting, and M&A (buy-side and sell-side). While with the firm, he
was an integral player on the M&A team and he worked to assist industry specific divestitures and sale
mandates of all sizes.
Josh has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, Cum Laude, from Virginia Tech.
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15. Contact Info
Contact Information
Steve Zacharias
Managing Partner
steve@transactcapital.com
office: 804.323.6868
mobile: 804.513.2155
Transact Capital Partners, LLC.
7400 Beaufont Springs Dr.
Richmond, VA 23225
www.transactcapital.com
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