About The Collins Group

Investment banking, mergers and acquistions

The Collins Group Inc. (TCG) is an independent company providing customized services in investment banking, mergers, strategic partnering and business planning and support to corporate clients. We target cross-border and cross-Atlantic financing, Strategic Partnering, and M&A transactions from $3 to $100 million for our private and public clients in North America and Europe.

TCG, founded in 1975, is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. The team includes 18 professionals and consulting associates. Building on many European assignments executed in the late 1990's in Sweden, Hungary and Crotia, TCG now has offices in Stockholm and Budapest, in addition to Montreal and representatives in Paris, St.Petersburg (Russia), USA, as well as Toronto and Ottawa. TCG has extended its reach to include projects and clients in Sweden, Bugaria, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hungary, Russia, Croatia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as in the US and Canada.

TCG's practice is focused on

• Arranging corporate financing and providing M&A advisory services to companies on an agency basis.
• Accessing venture capital companies (VCs) and private equity groups (PEGs) for our clients. We also see non-traditional financing sources including venture debt, joint venturing and corporate venturing.
• Assisting clients to identify and negotiate strategic and channel partnering and R&D agreements.
• Emphasizing European and North American cross-border and cross-Atlantic M&A and capital raising transactions.
• Strategic, market rollout, and business planning.
• "Bridging" management and marketing support to clients that are expanding internationally.

TCG has demonstrated expertise in several industries:

• Advanced instrumentation
• Applied software
• Environmental systems
• Food processing
• Forest products
• Grain handling & storage
• Hydroelectric power
• Information Technology
• Life sciences sector(biotech and biomedical)
• Motion picture industry
• Metal fabrication and manufacturing
• Optics and optical components
• Remote sensing
• Steel industry
• Telecommunications

TCG's VC & PEG Network

TCG's VC & PEG Network has evolved and is very comprehensive: We are constantly talking with venture capital companies (VCs) and private equity groups (PEGs) on behalf of our clients. This client work has enabled TCG to develop personal links to many venture capital companies (VCs) and private equity groups (PEGs) in the US, Canada, and Europe. Our relationships are expanding in international financial centers as we undertake projects. Our database covers over 1,200 VC and PEG firms extending beyond Canada and USA to Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. This network and database offers an excellent source of M&A candidates for our clients, and to identify and recruit Strategic Partners, VARs and distribution channel candidates.

Strategic Relationships

We have strategic relationships, which allow The Collins Group to undertake engagements that otherwise we could not.

• We have working relationships with bulge bracket bank-owned global investment banking firms allowing us to do larger and more complex transactions for our clients.
• Strategic relationships have been established with country-specific investment banking and M&A firms in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Croatia and Argentina
• We have a close working relationship with Technology Futures Inc. of Austin, Texas. TFI is a leading technology forecasting/marketing firm that helps organizations see where the future of technology is, how to get there and what to do about it. Our relationship with TFI helps our technology clients raise capital and recruit strategic partners.
• We are business and international expansion consultants to Aran Asset Management SA of Zug Switzerland, a Wealth and Asset Management Company with services to individuals and having its own USD and Euro denominated global funds.