International Reach
Because both financial and strategic investors/buyers in today's markets may be foreign as well as domestic, it is increasingly important for investment banks to have an international reach. Barnard/Montague has access to international markets through strategic alliances with Chart Group Advisors—a FINRA member firm and subsidiary of the Chart Group, a New York City–based merchant banking firm with extensive contacts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—with G.R. Associates, a Tokyo-based investment banking firm, and with Capital Express based in Mumbai, India.
The Chart Group
Chart Group was organized in 1994. The firm’s professionals share ownership of the company with a large global network of partners who provide access, expertise, and capital. The Chart Group Partners are composed of family investment offices, professional firms, and industrial companies in 16 countries.
Chart Group Advisors provides discreet, senior-level advice and capital access to corporate clients around the world. The company has significant cross-border transaction experience initiated through its overseas offices, its partner network, and strategic affiliations with investment banks in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
For more information on the Chart Group and Chart Group Advisors, please visit www.chartgroup.com.
G.R. Associates
G.R. Associates’ president, Yoshitake Fujikawa, founded the company in 1995. The firm provides Western middle-market companies with access to Japanese strategic and financial investors/acquirers and provides Japanese strategic and financial investors with access to investment opportunities in the West. G.R. Associates also offers financial advisory services to Western companies looking to expand into or gain access to customers or suppliers in Japan. The company is also well connected to senior-level Japanese banking, industry, and government executives.
For more information on G.R Associates, please visit www.gra.co.jp.
Capital Express
Suresh Balasubramaniam founded Capital Express in 2005. The firm provides middle-market companies with advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity capital raising as well as structured and acquisition finance. Capital Express also has a separate desk for real estate private equity and structured finance. Capital Express is well connected to a large number of middle-market companies, local banks and financial investors throughout India.
For more information on Capital Express, please visit www.capitalexpress.in.