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INDUSTRIALS, CHEMICALS & MANUFACTURING

Young America Capital is a nationally recognized broker-dealer and Investment bank providing companies and investors with advisory services across a focused range of disciplines. With significant industry and transactional experience spanning over 30 years, our advisory team is well positioned to serve your needs across the industrial, chemical, and manufacturing landscapes. We focus our advisory on proprietary, independent, and sound advice, first-class execution, and superior results by understanding transformative industry dynamics. 

Service Offerings:

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 

Our cumulative industry experience and advisory expertise enable us to customize innovative transactional and strategic solutions for the clients we serve. Our team has an extensive track record in exclusive sale advisory and buy-side transactions. We seek to leverage our senior-level industry relationships and analytical expertise to identify and articulate transactional synergies that maximize value in the sell-side process. We also advise on the acquisition and sale of distressed businesses and assets, including identifying opportunities across sectors for value-enhancing consolidation opportunities. 

 

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF EQUITY & DEBT 

Our professionals have a high degree of market insight, having led consumer and retail sell-side capital markets teams at bulge bracket institutions over more than 20 years. We have extensive experience in the placement of private equity and debt leveraging a wide network of both retail and institutional clients. Capital is typically deployed to finance growth initiatives, make strategic transactions, provide liquidity to shareholders, and to restructure or stabilize the capital structure. 

 

STRATEGIC ADVISORY SERVICES  

Maintaining a high level of confidentiality, we have served as advisors to boards and special committees on a wide range of options, especially regarding strategic solutions that will minimize potential losses and provide a suitable recovery structure for the client, fund managers, and secured lenders. 

 

PUBLIC MARKET ADVISORY 

With extensive IPO and secondary transaction experience, we work with management teams to form a comprehensive strategy to articulate positioning and differentiation that results in heightened investor appreciation of the story and thus increasing value and impact in the institutional investor market. 

 

FAIRNESS OPINIONS 

We provide Fairness Opinions under FINRA Rule 5150 relating to transactions between affiliated entities wherein conflicts of interest could arise between related parties. 

Industrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing Team

Peter Formanek, CPA

Founder & Managing Partner

914.777.0100

peter@yacapital.com

Peter has 30+ years experience advising fund managers, family offices and companies. He has been involved in over 300 transactions over the course of his career and is also involved in the private equity field providing deal...

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Steven Zelac

Head - Industrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing, Senior Director

914.522.7082

steven.zelac@yacapital.com

Steven is an exceptional and top-performing financial professional with over 30 years experience leading growth,development and restructuring programs. He is accomplished in strategy, mergers & acquisitions, portfoliomanagement,...

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Omar Brown

Managing Director

917.204.3773

omar@yacapital.com

Omar has 25+ years of experience in the capital markets advising institutional investors in both the public and the private market. He has been an active advisor and investor (endowment and hedge fund) in the alternative investment...

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Mark A. Chlapowski

Senior Director

347.503.3033

mark@yacapital.com

Mark is an emerging markets veteran with 25+ years of experience as a corporate financier and advisor. A generalist, he has served sovereigns, institutions and companies across many industries within the context of challenging markets....

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Stephen Christopher

Investment Banking Analyst

scristopher@yacapital.com

Stephen Christopher is an Investment Banking Analyst at Young America Capital, where he supports senior bankers on lower-middle-market transactions across the maritime, transportation, energy, and infrastructure sectors. As a member of...
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