About Edgeview Partners

Edgeview Partners is a leading investment bank focused exclusively on middle market mergers and acquisitions. The firm was founded in 2001 to provide customized advice and solutions to meet the unique needs of middle market clients.

In 2006, Edgeview closed deals with a total enterprise value of more than $2.5 billion. Since its founding more than five years ago, the firm has grown to more than 55 employees, including six managing directors and seven additional officers among an overall banker staff of 43.

In the summer of 2007, Edgeview joined New York-based CIT Group (NYSE: CIT), a leading provider of finance solutions for companies throughout the middle market.

CIT, a Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, provides clients with financing and leasing products and advisory services. Founded in 1908, CIT has approximately $81 billion in managed assets and possesses the financial resources, industry expertise and product knowledge to serve the needs of clients across approximately 30 industries worldwide.

Edgeview is headquartered in Charlotte and also has offices in New York and Chicago.

Over the past six years, Edgeview has closed 95 percent of transaction assignments. The firm does extensive work for many top-tier middle-market private equity groups, including Citicorp Venture Capital, The CapStreet Group, H.I.G. Capital Management, Blue Point Capital Partners, American Capital Strategies, CIVC Partners, The Carlyle Group, Banc of America Capital Investors, Brazos Private Equity Partners, Olympus Partners and others. About 60 percent of engagements are on behalf of private equity groups selling portfolio companies.

A little more than a third of engagements involve the sale of closely held businesses. The firm takes pride in its strong record of managing generational transitions and its creativity in finding the right buyer – whether strategic or financial – for an entrepreneur looking to sell a business built from scratch.

That skill was recognized by The M&A Advisor, which gave its 2006 “Manufacturing-Consumer Deal of the Year” award to Edgeview for its simultaneous sale of Vi-Jon Laboratories Inc. and Cumberland Swan Holdings Inc. – two privately-owned, century-old businesses that were leaders in the manufacture of private-label health and beauty care products – to Berkshire Partners and John G. Brunner.

Edgeview bankers have closed deals with domestic and international buyers in more than 15 industry sectors, including aerospace and defense, building products, business services, consumer products, diversified manufacturing, energy services, health care and transportation and logistics.

For more information on Edgeview Partners, please contact Vice President of Marketing and Communications Tim Whitmire at (704) 602-3904 or whitmire@edgeviewpartners.com