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MINNEAPOLIS – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Northborne Partners today announced its official launch. Northborne specializes in providing merger and acquisition advice on the sales side for private businesses, particularly family businesses, entrepreneurial companies and other closely run businesses, including in the food and consumer, healthcare and industrial sectors. Northborne’s mission is to provide business owners with superior M&A advisory experience from seasoned senior dealmakers who have extensive industry experience and who lead every single transaction.

The company was founded by partners Ken Higgins, Mark Horvick, Paul Jevnick and Ben Marks, who worked together for years at Greene Holcomb Fisher before selling to BMO Capital Markets in 2016. Higgins, Jevnick and Marks stayed with BMO for four and a half years, while Horvick went to Cowen & Company (fka Quarton International) after the sale. Northborne is bringing these four colleagues back together and combining their 85+ years of experience in the business.

“We founded Northborne specifically to meet the unique M&A advisory needs of entrepreneurs and family businesses. We have gathered extensive expertise and developed a bedside manor that sets us apart when entrepreneurs are looking for the right advisor to help them achieve their ultimate goals. The Northborne founders have been fortunate to have worked with incredible individual clients over the years and built a broad network of relationships that got us off to a quick start, ”commented Paul Jevnick.

Ben Marks added, “We have attracted exceptional junior and mid-level banker talent from the start and are aggressively growing our team. We focus on nurturing an exceptional team-oriented culture that aims to grow and develop our people across the company. We do this because it’s right for our people and because an extraordinary culture provides the perfect platform to achieve extraordinary results for our customers. ”

“We expect 2021 to be a strong year for M&A. It’s been a sellers’ market for years. The COVID-induced slowdown in business in mid-2020 made shoppers even hungrier in 2021. Plus, tax considerations cause many potential sellers to seriously consider selling this year. Northborne’s customers are well positioned to take advantage of our unique platform to capitalize on this unparalleled seller market, ”said Mark Horvick.

As Ken Higgins sums it up, “We are a team of seasoned investment bankers with extensive experience in sophisticated business in large corporations and boutiques with a focus on private sellers. We love doing business, and Northborne partners are closely involved in every business every step of the way. Large companies don’t offer this kind of personalized, bespoke attention, and small companies often don’t bring the level of sophistication, infrastructure, and experience that we have. We represent the best of both worlds for private entrepreneurs who want to ensure an optimal liquidity event for themselves, their families, their employees, their customers and their communities. ”

Northborne Partners is a pre-eminent midsize investment banking firm that focuses, among other things, on providing M&A advisory services on the sales side for privately held companies in the food and consumer, healthcare and industrial sectors. Northborne Partners is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and provides M&A advisory services nationwide.

For more information on Northborne Partners, please contact Paul Jevnick at 612-850-5781 or [email protected] or visit www.northborne.com.