Sanabe Team Joins TM Capital to Expand Industrial Practice

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Sep 09, 2015, 12:58 ET

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- TM Capital Corp., a leading middle market investment banking firm with offices in New York, Boston and Atlanta, is pleased to announce the expansion of our Industrial practice with the addition of Sanabe & Associates, LLC, a boutique investment bank focused on the Building Products, Paper & Packaging and Renewable Energy industries. Together, TM Capital and Sanabe have completed over 125 mergers, acquisitions and financings in the Industrial space with a total value in excess of $12 billion. Sanabe founder Jonathan Mishkin and his team have earned a distinguished reputation for industry expertise, transactional acumen and client service, having represented such notable companies as Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd., Catalyst Paper Corporation, EACOM Timber Corporation, Finch, Pruyn & Company, Inc., Huttig Building Products Inc., Interfor Corporation, Kruger Inc., Longview Fibre Company, NewPage Corporation and WestRock Company.

Prior to founding Sanabe in 2002, Mr. Mishkin served as the North American Group Head for Paper, Packaging and Forest Products at Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Previously, Mr. Mishkin built a leading franchise in paper and forest products at Burns Fry Limited and served in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Mishkin joins TM Capital's Industrial team as a Managing Director in our New York City office. Sanabe partner, Daniel Zwelling, also joins TM Capital as a Managing Director based in our Boston office. Mr. Zwelling joined Sanabe upon its formation. Previously, he served as an Associate in the Paper, Packaging and Forest Products group at Credit Suisse First Boston.

"The Sanabe team adds complementary expertise to our Industrial practice, deepening our capabilities in key sectors which are currently booming in the middle market," said Jim Grien, President and CEO of TM Capital. "We are pleased to be joining forces with a team of industry leaders whose business practices mirror our own and whose marketplace reach will enable us to enhance our services to clients." Mr. Mishkin commented: "TM Capital's twenty-six year legacy of offering unbiased advice across a range of M&A and financing transaction types provides the perfect platform for us to jointly expand our Industrial practice." The new specialty practice within TM Capital's Industrial group will be known as TM Sanabe Partners.

For more information on TM Sanabe Partners, visit www.tmcapital.com/tm-sanabe.