Firm Overview

Clients
Davis Capital maintains significant relationships with many of the nation’s leading capital providers, including premier private equity funds, distinguished senior and subordinated lenders, mezzanine funds and other major institutional investors, including hedge funds, insurance companies, and venture capital funds.

The professionals at Davis Capital have represented some of the finest publicly and privately held corporations in the world and are sophisticated and creative dealmakers trained to maximize shareholder value by comprehensively capturing and measuring our client’s strategic and financial alternatives.

Technical Capabilities
The financial modeling capabilities and technical platforms used by Davis Capital are the same capabilities and platforms currently used by some of the world’s largest financial institutions. This technical expertise affords our clients the opportunity to run unlimited sensitivity analysis on financial projections, stress-test assumptions, gauge the immediate impact on returns from multiple transaction structures and ultimately determine the optimal capital structure for the transaction.

Davis Capital has the technical capabilities to incorporate all of the recognized valuation approaches in assisting our clients. These include the Market Approach (Comparable company analysis and precedent transactions); the Income Approach (Discounted cash flow analysis, capitalization of earnings and modified LBO analysis); and various asset or book value and adjusted book value approaches. We also have access to and will consider esoteric valuation approaches including industry specific metrics. The result is a more rigorous and technically thorough valuation analysis that incorporates a variety of methodologies for a more robust and supportable valuation conclusion to enhance our transaction process.

Process Driven
Davis Capital uses sophisticated data bases coupled with long-standing personal relationships to identify the most appropriate universe of strategic and financial buyers and to identify the most compelling acquisition targets.

Davis Capital offers our clients well-organized and logically constructed M&A and corporate finance processes to ensure maximum success.

Relationship Focused
Davis Capital views each new client as an opportunity to develop a lifelong relationship. Our objective is to do multiple transactions with our clients. We firmly believe that your success is our inspiration!

Professionals
The professionals at Davis Capital form a strategic team that is truly inspiring. Please click on the personal links to view the professional profiles of some of the more senior members of our team.

Board Members
The members of the Davis Capital Board consist of a distinguished group of highly renowned and regarded dealmaking professionals that collectively contribute over 100 years of deal experience to the firm.  Their professional accomplishments are extraordinary, and the sophisticated knowledge they provide to the firm is a further resource to our clients.

Connected
Professionals at Davis Capital stay at the leading edge of M&A and Corporate Finance developments by regularly speaking at and participating in national conferences hosted by leading industry and professional organizations dedicated to investment banking related topics. Please click on the links below to find out more about these organizations and their upcoming conferences. If you would like to have one of our professionals speak at your next event, please contact our Director of Corporate Development using the CONTACT US section of this site.


ACG – Association for Corporate Growth



AMAA – Alliance for Merger & Acquisition Advisors



BVA – Business Valuation Association



ESOP Association



Illinois CPA Society



NFA – National Funding Association



TMA – Turnaround Management Association