Alliance Relationships
The Executive Partners works with an extensive network of professional service providers. We pride ourselves on our strong working relationship with our associates. The list below represents a partial list of associates and their comments. _________________________________________________________________________________
Brereton, Hanley and Company, Incorporated Founded in 1995, Brereton and Company is a boutique investment bank dedicated to maximizing the value and liquidity of privately held middle market businesses. Our track record, trusting relationships, and proven methodology allow you to take the guesswork out of selling or re-capitalizing your business.
"In the New World of Middle-Market Private Equity where Capital is commoditized, TEP brings the seasoned operating expertise to projects that heretofore has been sorely lacking in the deals we see." Brandt Brereton __________________________________________________________________________________
COMERICA BANK Comerica Bank (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company aligned by three business segments: The Business Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth & Institutional Management. Comerica’s core specialty is lending to businesses, and the company ranks among the nation's top commercial and small business lenders. Comerica’s Technology and Life Sciences (TLS) Division provides credit and financial services to early stage venture-backed technology and life sciences companies as well as later stage and public companies in this sector. In addition to full service commercial banking products, Comerica has a full service broker dealer, investment advisory, trust and other key corporate and personal financial services. At approximately $54 Billion in assets Comerica is among the 20 largest bank holding companies in the U.S. Comerica’s objective is to build lasting business relationships to assist companies and individuals meet their financial goals. Comerica Bank locations can be found in Michigan, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida, with select businesses such as TLS, operating in other states, Canada and Mexico. The Western Market of Comerica Bank includes over 58 banking centers in California markets as well as in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona area.
“Comerica and The Executive Partners focus on solutions for the middle market made a lot of sense of an alliance relationship bringing operating executive capability together with banking resources.” Alan Jepsen Alan is a Managing Director in the Northern California Region for Comerica’s Technology and Life Sciences (TLS) Division. He has been with the bank in this division since 1991 when Comerica began its technology banking practice. Comerica’s TLS Division provides debt and financial services to both startups and later-stage companies in this market. The TLS Division has offices nationally as well as in Canada, and has its headquarters in Palo Alto. Prior to Comerica he was with the Technology Banking Group at Bank of America for nine years. Before his banking career Alan was an engineer at Fairchild and National Semiconductor working in process and product engineering. Alan has a BSEE from the University of Illinois and an MBA from BYU. __________________________________________________________________________________
Fenwick & West Fenwick & West LLP is a full service law firm for national and global high technology and biotechnology clients, with a particular expertise in intellectual property. We have practice groups covering: · Corporate (private equity and other corporate finance transactions, securities, mergers and acquisitions) · Intellectual Property (patent, copyright, licensing, trademark) · Litigation (commercial, IP litigation and alternative dispute-resolution) · Tax (domestic, international tax planning and litigation)Fenwick has represented hundreds of growth-oriented high technology companies from inception and throughout a full range of complex corporate transactions and exit strategies. Our business, technical and related expertise spans numerous technology sectors, including software, Internet, networking, hardware, semiconductor, communications, nanotechnology and biotechnology. Mr. Greguras focuses on strategic legal issues for software, semiconductor-related and life sciences companies. His practice includes representing both domestic and international businesses with a focus on China and India. He has represented a wide range of companies in financing, M&A, licensing and other commercial transactions, from privately held start-ups to publicly traded companies. He has also been a venture capitalist and a general counsel and CFO for a start-up.
“We believe the Executive Partners team adds significant value to its clients and are pleased to be a sponsor” said Fred Greguras of Fenwick & West. “I have seen first-hand how they provide practical ways of solving problems for their clients. Fenwick has many practice areas in common with the Alliance Partners, particularly private equity and other corporate finance both on a national and global basis. ” ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________
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