2024 Year in Review
MelCap Partners is pleased to announce another great year for our firm. Our team found success leveraging our M&A expertise to meet our clients’ goals while forging strong professional relationships and executing successful M&A transactions. We were so proud to celebrate 25 years serving our clients and we appreciate our clients and partners for trusting us to help them find success.
Our Firm’s Recent Accomplishments
2024 was an exciting year for MelCap Partners. Let’s take a look at some of this year’s accomplishments:
- Celebrated the 25th anniversary of MelCap Partners
- Won the M&A Advisor Mid-Size Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year
- Won the M&A Atlas Award for America’s Deal of the Year for the Kid Works — Busy Bees Acquisition
- Won the M&A Atlas Award for 2024 Boutique Investment Firm of the Year
- Won the M&A Atlas Award for 2024 Industrial Buyout Deal of the Year — Selinsky Force — KLH Capital
- Won the M&A Atlas Award for Leadership Achievement Award — Al Melchiorre
- Won the 2024 Globalscope Excellence Award — Second Most Active Member (2X Winner)
- Was a 2024 Cascade Capital Corporation Business Growth Award Honoree
- Evan Lyons, Vice President, was selected as one of the 2024 Smart Business Dealmakers “Rising Star Winners”
- Welcomed Dom Cristino as Vice President
Our Team Members Advanced Their Careers
At the end of 2024, and in recognition of their hard work in helping our clients achieve their goals, we promoted six individuals on our team:
- Dan Bowman was promoted from Director to Director & Principal
- Evan Lyons was promoted from Vice President to Director & Principal
- Anthony Melchiorre was promoted from Vice President to Director & Principal
- Carter Hatina was promoted from Associate to Senior Associate
- Andrew Chalhoub was promoted from Senior Analyst to Associate
- Jake Peebles was promoted from Analyst to Senior Analyst
MelCap Closed the Following Deals in 2024
- Performance Produce sold to GrubMarket Inc.
- Cowen Truck Line Inc. sold to Hornish Bros. Inc.
- Northeast Box Company sold to Welch Packaging Group
- Vidalia Valley sold to Hanline Group
- OCS Technologies sold to Aldinger Company, a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners
- Riverside Plastics Inc. sold to Sioux Chief Manufacturing
- Hy-Production Inc. sold to KKSP Precision Machining, a portfolio company of Pine Grove Holdings
- Emery Thompson Machine & Supply Co. sold to The Middleby Corporation
- Corus Fastening sold to LINC Systems, a portfolio company of Center Rock
- Rudis has refinanced its indebtedness to KeyBank
- Oak Pointe sold to Evermark
With a New Year Comes New Opportunities
We’re looking forward to the upcoming year and are excited to help more owners and organizations achieve their financial goals. Thank you to our team members, our clients, and our partners for an amazing 2024! Let’s build success together in 2025.
