As a financial advisory firm, American Working Capital (“AWC”) is focused exclusively on providing expert advisory services to address ownership transition and growth capital needs in privately-held middle market companies. We provide our clients with experience-based solutions, and unbiased advice. AWC partners are highly skilled in executing strategic transactions and have extensive operational, advisory and capital markets backgrounds, drawing upon over a 200 years of collective middle market experience. AWC partners are among a select group of stewards of employee ownership. We have extensive experience in transactions and investments involving broader-based employee ownership or employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Despite attractive opportunities and substantive needs, businesses with ESOPs or other forms of broader-based employee ownership have been challenged to attract private equity and mezzanine capital to affect changes in ownership or fund growth capital needs while establishing or preserving their employee ownership structure and culture. AWC has the collective depth, skill sets and capital to greatly expand the strategic options available to both aspiring management-employee teams; as well as established ESOP companies.
Advisory services
Our comprehensive array of strategic advisory and execution capabilities allows us to meet the needs of our clients and provide an outstanding level of service in connection with a variety of strategic alternatives and transaction processes, including:
SELL SIDE ADVISORY
Corporate Divestitures
Management Buyouts
leveraged recapitalizations
ESOP BUYOUTS
ESOP ACQUISITIONS
esop recapitalizations
esop repurchase solutions
INDUSTRY expertise
AWC has served as a trusted and long-term advisor to hundreds of leading middle-market and growth-oriented companies across a broad range of industries. We have developed deep experience in several broadly-defined vertical markets including, but not limited to:
Specialty manufacturing
government services
logistics and transportation
business services
Distribution
Consumer focused
our approach
We are selective in the number of client engagements we undertake, which enables us to regularly access and apply the full resources of the firm for the benefit of each client. The advice and execution services we provide is consistent with a long-term business partnership approach.
We are dedicated to providing our clients with creative and tailored solutions that address their financial and strategic needs. AWC partners have spent their careers working closely with business owners and management teams as they confront and address critical business challenges and opportunities. To meet these challenges and opportunities, we have extensive investment banking expertise in acquisitions, divestitures, private placements of debt and equity, and complex project and structured financings. We have a disciplined approach to engagements. First, we believe in building relationships. We work to gain a deep understanding of your business, your people and your business strategies and objectives. We help you analyze a broad range of options and tailor a solution that meets your immediate and long term goals.