Capital Placements

FMI’s capital placement practice specializes in raising private equity, mezzanine capital, and senior debt for engineering and construction industry companies. FMI seeks owners and management teams dedicated to building the value of their organizations in ways beyond pure financial re-engineering. Our advisors draw upon a wealth of transaction experience and the management consulting skills provided by FMI Corporation to maximize the strategic and operational performance of each company we work with. In short, FMI has the expertise and relationships with private equity investors and senior lenders to help our clients secure financing for a variety of purposes.

Specifically, we seek opportunities within the following construction industry segments:

• Engineers, Architects, and Environmental Firms
• Manufacturers and Suppliers of Construction Products and Equipment
• Construction Materials Producers
• Facilities Managers, Owners, and Developers
• Providers of Building Systems, Software, and Controls
• Construction Specialty Trades
• Contractors

Specifically, FMI Investment Banking has expertise in raising funds for the following types of transactions:

• Acquisitions and expansion
• Buy and build and consolidations
• Management/employee buyouts
• Leveraged buyouts
• Recapitalizations
• Divestiture of subsidiaries or divisions

We seek opportunities to work with the construction industry where value can be added through internal growth, acquisitions, or operational re-engineering. Attractive investment opportunities would have the following characteristics:

Earnings quality and growth potential:

• High level of recurring revenues
• Repeat customers
• Service/retrofit and maintenance
• Growing market sectors

Consolidation potential:

• Market fragmentation
• Availability of acquisition targets
• National account opportunities
• Economies of scale and scope

Competitive positioning:

• Strong management
• Defensible market niche
• Unique products or services

Private debt and equity financing includes the following:

Debt Financing

FMI specializes in understanding the financing needs of its clients. FMI provides to its clients capital structure advisory services with the intent to maximize the financial flexibility of the client organization. Optimizing the organization’s capital structure mitigates risk and clarifies the organizational financial capabilities.

Private Equity

In recent years, public equity markets have been a significant source of capital for the construction industry. However, the public equity markets have become increasingly difficult to access due to the poor stock price performance of many existing public consolidators. Given these market conditions, construction-industry firms seeking capital must turn to alternative sources of financing, such as private equity.