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Hermes Capital Advisors advises EMRISE on sale of EMRISE Electronics Ltd. to Data Device
Hermes Capital Advisors advises EMRISE on sale of CXR Larus assets
Hermes Capital Advisors acts as placement agent to Fadel in Series A Financing
EMRISE appoints Hermes Capital Advisors as financial advisor
Overview
We are committed to providing our clients with the highest levels of service, and we do so by hiring exceptional individuals. Hermes believes that our employees are critical to our success and that our people are our most valuable asset. We attract intelligent, hard-working, motivated individuals who think creatively and enjoy being part of a winning team. Hermes is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds and degree disciplines.
Hamed Moghaddam
Hamed Moghaddam, Managing Partner
Hamed Moghaddam heads Hermes’ Technology Investment Banking Group. Mr. Moghaddam has over 19 years of experience in investment banking, having executed 60 transactions valued at $1.9 billion, including public and private financings, mergers and acquisitions and advisory assignments.
Mr. Moghaddam was previously head of the technology investment banking practice at Susquehanna International Group (SIG). Prior to joining SIG in 2006, Mr. Moghaddam served for five years as a member of BMO Capital Markets’ Media, Communications and Technology Investment Banking team in New York, where he focused on technology and communications companies. Prior to joining BMO, Mr. Moghaddam founded and operated a technology infrastructure services company.
Previously, he was an associate at Gerard Klauer Mattison’s Investment Banking Group, which he joined in 1994, and a strategy research analyst at Gemini Consulting. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Engineering from Brown University.
Management Team
The professionals leading our firm have deep technology domain expertise and extensive experience structuring transactions, having advised on more than 50 middle market transactions* over the course of their careers. We emphasize a relationship-based approach with our clients, and our focus and expertise extends well beyond traditional investment banking advisory services. We strive to create long-term value for our clients as a truly strategic advisor and partner deeply invested in the success of their businesses.
Hamed Moghaddam
Managing Partner
* Includes four transactions executed at Arcadia Securities
Campus Recruiting
Analyst Internships
Analyst internships are available to candidates who are undergraduates that have at least completed two semesters of their bachelors degree. The internship experience is designed to attract and develop those students who want to pursue a career in finance.
Due to the relatively small size of our firm, an internship position at Hermes provides unparalleled exposure to senior professionals. Through training and exposure to the firm’s senior staff, summer interns gain a unique perspective into our business and an invaluable start to their career. The basic skills that our training program provides are continually developed by the experience of working with senior advisory professionals across a wide range of assignments.
Given the challenging nature of the firm’s work and the high standards our clients and colleagues expect, we look to recruit only the brightest and most capable individuals. We seek candidates with an outstanding analytical capabilties and strong interpersonal and communication skills. To join us, you’ll need to show motivation, commitment, a desire to learn and the ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as individually in a fast-paced intellectual environment. We look for people who are performance-oriented, show initiative and take an innovative approach to their work.
Associate Internships
Associate internship opportunities are available to candidates during the summer session between their first and second year of business school. The Internship experience is designed to provide candidates with a comprehensive and hands-on experience while quickly enhancing their professional skills and knowledge.
Valuations & Opinions
Valuations
We provide valuations for buy-side and sell-side transactions and strategic planning purposes. For corporate internal purposes, our valuations may also be used to support market value accounting.
Fairness Opinions
Our professionals have extensive experience providing fairness opinions to companies and their boards of directors in order to assist them in fulfilling their fiduciary obligation to verify the financial fairness of a pending transaction. We provide objective advice in assessing the financial fairness of our clients’ transactions.
Private Placements
Hermes has a full range of capabilities to assist clients in raising capital in private markets. Our private placement services are tailored to the specific needs of our clients. We have longstanding relationships with institutional investors across all classes, which enable us to provide our clients with access to traditional and non-traditional financing sources.
We have extensive experience developing customized equity, debt, or hybrid capital solutions for clients, including:
- Private equity placements
- Buyout, consolidation, and acquisition financings
- Mezzanine and subordinated debt placements
- Private investments in public equity (PIPEs)
Our investor relationships extend across a wide array of investors, including:
- Private Equity/LBO Firms
- Sector Specific Hedge Funds
- Institutional Investors
- Mezzanine Debt Firms
- Strategic Corporate Investors
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our professionals have extensive experience in successfully executing all types of strategic advisory assignments, having executed more than 25 middle-market technology M&A transactions. We offer our considerable M&A expertise and broad base of industry contacts in support of our clients’ M&A strategies. Each deal is executed by senior bankers with strong execution skills and a singular focus on negotiating value for clients. Our senior bankers work in close collaboration with client management teams at every step of the process through to closing. Our full service practice is global in scope and engages private and public companies as well as financial sponsor firms in all types of advisory work.
Buy-Side Advisory
We have a strong record of successful buy-side advisory assignments in relation to both public and private targets. We help clients plan and execute successful acquisitions, starting with strategic target identification and continuing through all stages of the transaction to closing and post-closing.
Sell-Side Advisory
Whether it is a negotiated sale, or a limited or structured auction, we have a strong history of achieving premium valuations and favorable terms for our clients in sell-side advisory roles.
Overview
We offer our clients a broad range of capital raising and strategic and financial advisory services in connection with mergers & acquisitions, private placements, valuations and fairness opinions. Our seasoned technology investment banking team has a proven track record of executing transactions for emerging growth and middle market companies. Our focus and expertise extends well beyond traditional investment banking advisory services to assisting clients in evaluating broad market opportunities and developing long-term strategic direction which may involve both organic and M&A-driven expansion. Our strength lies in our ability to generate innovative ideas and solutions and provide objective, unbiased advice as an effective extension of our clients’ corporate development organizations. Our corporate culture is built on teamwork, integrity and professionalism and we emphasize long-term relationships with clients spanning multiple corporate entities and transactions.
First-rate execution from experienced corporate finance and M&A professionals
- Extensive transaction execution experience and deep industry expertise
- Strong understanding of complex transaction issues
- Specific expertise in complicated, multi-faceted M&A and financing assignments
- Refined and responsive transaction process tailored to the goals and objectives of our clients
- 24/7 support via email, phone and face-to face interaction
Senior-level attention throughout the transaction process
- Each deal is executed by senior bankers working in very close collaboration with client management teams
- Senior level access to leading industry executives, investors and entrepreneurs
- Intimate involvement in every step of the transaction process, including the negotiation of final documentation, through to closing
Independent judgment and experience
- Firm culture of providing clients with unbiased and insightful advice
- Providing sound advice is core to our long-term success in serving clients
- We view M&A as a solution, not just a transaction
- Focused on producing the best possible outcome, not making unrealistic promises
Relentless focus on maximizing value for our clients
- Aggressive approach to negotiating value for clients
- In-depth technical and financial skills for value-enhancing deal structuring
- Creative “out of the box” solutions to transaction roadblocks
Transactions
*∗ * Transactions executed by Hermes professionals at prior firms.
Industry Expertise
Our professionals combine deep technology industry knowledge, an extensive network of relationships and broad transaction experience with an unwavering commitment to our clients’ objectives. We are dedicated to providing our clients with independent, trusted and unbiased advice, tailored to their unique needs.
Our firm primarily serves clients in the following technology sub-sectors:
- Communications Equipment and Software
- Enterprise Application and Infrastructure Software
- Enterprise Storage, Networking and Security
- Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- Internet Media
- Internet Software and Services
- IT Services
Overview
Hermes Capital Advisors is focused on assisting early stage through middle market companies in the technology sector capitalize on their highest value growth and financial opportunities. We offer a variety of capital raising and strategic and financial advisory services in connection with mergers & acquisitions, private placements, valuations and fairness opinions.
As specialists in the technology sector, we leverage our deep domain expertise, keen strategic insight, and extensive network of relationships to offer creative, idea-driven solutions that assist clients in achieving their business objectives.
We provide clear, relevant and timely advice that is uniquely built on deep domain knowledge, keen strategic understanding and critical judgment that can only come from extensive experience.
We have an unwavering commitment to our clients’ objectives and long-term success, which leads to a true advisory relationship and a pattern of assisting companies with multiple transactions.
Our commitment to providing sound, independent and unbiased advice and exceptional service is born of a tradition that stresses integrity above all else.
Hermes Capital Advisors advises Wyse Technology on its acquisition of Trellia Networks
Hermes Capital Advisors advises Wyse Technology on its acquisition of Trellia Networks