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Industrials,Chemicals
& Manufacturing
February 2021
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Young America Capital, LLC (“YAC”) is a nationally recognized New York based FINRA/SECregistered investment banking firm providing financial advisory services in connection with capitalraising initiatives and mergers & acquisitions primarily for small to middle market companies. The firmalso can provide company valuations including fairness opinions.
YAC was established in 2010 to serve the growing demand for independent, senior-level advice forindividual and corporate clients in America’s rapidly growing small to middle market businesscommunity. Since its founding the firm has completed over 120 transactions and has raised over$1 billion in capital for its clients.
Headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York YAC has representatives located throughout the UnitedStates. Its team of over 65 includes senior investment bankers with experience leading transactionsacross a wide range of industries for clients/businesses located in North America, Europe, SouthAmerica, Asia and the Middle East.
Firm Overview
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Product SpecializationMembers of the firm have investment banking advisory experience in connection with complex corporate transactions, including:
ü M&Aü Leveraged Buyoutsü Buyouts of Minority Shareholdersü Restructuring ü Bankruptcy Proceedingsü Private Placement of Debt & Equityü Strategic Advisory Services ü Investment Advisoryü Fairness Opinion
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Our team has experience in transactions across many sectors including:ü Industrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing ü Consumer & Retailü Energy and Clean-Techü Financial Services and Fin-Techü Life Sciences & Healthcareü Telecom, Media and Technologyü Transportationü Agricultureü Real Estateü Legal Cannabisü Latin America Focus
Industry Specialization
Firm Overview
Click to edit Master title styleYAC is nationally known and has received numerous awards and recognition from organizations focused on Middle Market banking and corporate finance including:
Recognition
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Click to edit Master title styleSelect YAC Representative Transactions
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Capital Raise/Financing M&A Other Advisory
Industrials, Chemicals
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Sector
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Click to edit Master title styleIndustrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing Experience
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With a combined 85 years of investment banking experience the core industrials, chemicals andmanufacturing team has executed more than 100 transactions with TEV exceeding $50 billion forsome of the world’s leading corporations including:
Click to edit Master title styleOur team has experience in the following sectors/industries:
Industrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing Experience
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Specialty ChemicalsPolyester Resins
Polyolefin CatalystsRefinery CatalystsChemical Catalysts
Silica & Specialty SilicasAlumina-basedConstruction
Mining
IndustrialPackaging Machinery
Printing MachineryStationary Emission ControlsAutomotive Emission Controls
Separations
Specialty MaterialsPolymers
ElastomersCoatings
ElectronicsCeramics
Thermal InsulationBuoyancy
Tapes
TechnologyIndustrial Biotech
Industrial EnzymesEnergy/Biofuels
Agricultural
Building ProductsConstruction Materials
Commercial Residential
ChemicalsCommodity AgriculturalFertilizers
PackagingRigid Containers
FlexibleSealants
Labels and FilmsPaper
EnergyE&P
Oil and Gas EquipmentPipelines and Distribution
Other Basic MaterialsSteel
Metals and MiningManufacturingFood Ingredients
Nutrition Filtration SystemsPharmaceuticals
Click to edit Master title styleRepresentative Sell-Side M&A Transactions
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Industrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingDate Seller Business Sold Acquired By Industry/SectorJul-15 DuPont The Chemours Company Public Shareholders Specialty ChemicalsDec-14 DuPont Regulated Pharmaceutical Propellants Mexichem Specialty ChemicalsDec-13 DuPont Danisco Colors D. D. Williamson Food IngredientsApr-13 AfriSam AfriSam Pembani Group Construction MaterialsOct-11 DuPont Foodmaker UK Ltd Scobie & Junior Holdings Limited Food IngredientsFeb-10 DuPont Canadian Manufacturing Assets Invista - subsidiary of Koch Industries Chemicals/Specialty ChemicalsFeb-09 DuPont Crystar® Business DAK Americas LLC Specialty Chemicals
Sep-05 DuPont Anchorage Systems Sentinel Capital Partners, LLC. Specialty Chemicals
Apr-04 Alcoa Converter Foil Products JW Aluminum - Wellspring Capital PackagingJan-04 Alcoa Alcoa Packaging Equipment American Industrial Partners PackagingAug-02 Associated Materials Associated Materials Harvest Partners Building ProductsJul-01 Rexam MiTeck Berkshire Hathaway Building Products1999 Etex/Marley Group General Shale Brick Wienerberger AG Construction Materials1997 Bunge Limited Atanor DA International - Albaugh Agrochemicals & Chemicals
Aug-97 Grace Stationary Emission Control Sequa Corporation Environmental/Printing
Feb-97 Grace Mobile Emission Control Engelhard Corporation Environmental
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Industrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingDate Seller Business Sold Acquired By Industry/Sector1996 Bunge Limited Petroquimica Rio Tercero Piero Petrochemicals
Mar-96 Grace Microwave Materials Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Specialty Materials
1995 Government of Argentina Petroquimica Bahia Blanca & Indupa Consortium: Dow Chemical, Itochu & YPF Chemicals & Petrochemicals
Feb-95 Grace Composite Materials Emerson & Cuming Composite Materials Specialty Materials
Sep-94 Grace Chomerics, Inc Parker Hannifin Corporation Specialty Materials
Aug-94 Grace American Breeders Service Protein Genetics, Inc. Agriculture Technology
Aug-94 Grace Ochoa Fertilizer Co., Inc.Antilles Chemical Company Protein Genetics, Inc. Agricultural Chemicals
Aug-94 Grace Grace Membrane Systems Kvaerner Process Systems EnergyLubricants
Jun-94 Grace Diamonite Products Ferro Specialty MaterialsIndustrial
Jun-94 Grace Endura Specialty Paperboard, Inc. Specialty Materials
Apr-94 Grace Airmold Flambeau Product Corporation PlasticsPackaging
1993 Argentina Ministry of Defense Petroquimica General Mosconi YPF Petrochemicals
Sep-91 Grace Farr Better FeedsWalnut Grove Products Cargill Agriculture
Feb-91 Grace TAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Teva Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals
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Industrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingDate Acquiror Target Company Acquired From Industry
December-15 DuPont Dyadic Enzyme and Technology Business Dyadic International, Inc. (OTCQX: DYAI) Bioscience/Biotechnology
January-15 DuPont DuPont Haohua Chenguang Fluoromaterials (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Zhonghao Chenguang Chemical Research Institute Company Limited, a subsidiary of
China National Chemical CorporationSpecialty Chemicals
June-13 Frans Bonhomme Frans Bonhomme Creditors Building Products DistributionApril-12 DuPont Solae LLC Bunge Food Ingredients
October-11 DuPont Haixu Biomaterials Zhejiang Hisun Group Co. Ltd Specialty ChemicalsBiomaterials
September-11 DuPont Beijing Lurou Berry Juice Co Ltd Privately Held Company Food Ingredients
May-11 DuPont Danisco A/S Public TenderNutrition & Health Food Ingredients
Industrial EnzymesBiotechnology
March-06 DuPont Biofuels Technology Package North China Pharmaceuticals Holding, Ltd. Corp. Energy
October-03 Alcoa Composite Decking Dayton Technologies LLC Building Products
March-03 Alcoa Owens Corning Vinyl Siding Facility Owens Corning Building ProductsOctober-02 Alcoa Richwood Building Products Nortek Inc. Building ProductsJanuary-02 Grace Borealis Polvolefin Catalysts Borealis A/S Catalysts
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Industrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingDate Acquiror Target Company Acquired From Industry2001 Votorantim Great Lakes Lafarge Constriction Materials
July-01 Grace Pieri SA Pieri SA Building ProductsMarch-01 Grace Akzo-PQ Precipitated Silica Akzo-PQ Specialty Chemicals
March-01 Grace The Separations Group HPLC The Separations Group Specialty Chemicals
November-00 Grace Sam Hwa Sealants Sam Hwa Industrial Co PackagingOctober-00 Grace Colloidal Silica Kempro Italiana Specialty Chemicals
September-00 Cemex SA Southdown Southdown Construction MaterialsAugust-00 Grace Concrete and Masonry Admixtures Neox, Ltd. Building Products
July-00 Grace Hampshire Polymers Business Hampshire Polymers Specialty ChemicalsJune-00 Grace Ludox Colloidal Silica Ludox Specialty Chemicals
March-00 Grace International Protective Coatings International Protective Coatings Corp Building ProductsFebruary-00 Grace Crosfield Group Hydroprocessing Catalysts Crosfield Group CatalystsJanuary-00 Grace Polchem Business Sociedad Petreos Construction Products
Click to edit Master title styleIndustrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingSteven Zelac – Sector Lead
Steven ZelacSenior Managing Director
Sector LeadIndustrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing
Steven is an exceptional and top-performing financial professional with over 30 years experience leading growth,development and restructuring programs. He is accomplished in strategy, mergers & acquisitions, portfoliomanagement, restructuring, financial valuations, due diligence, negotiations, relationship management, post-acquisition integration, separations, capital structuring, organic growth and process improvement.
As a Senior Managing Director Steven leads Young America Capital’s Industrials, Chemicals and ManufacturingSector Team. Prior to joining the firm Steven held a variety of leadership roles with four Fortune 500/1000 publiclytraded companies including W.R. Grace & Co., Alcoa, DuPont and BrightView in which he focused on growth,development and restructuring program. He has completed over 70 transactions of varying size with Total EnterpriseValuation in excess of $25 billion spanning a wide range of industries including chemicals, specialty chemicals,specialty materials, manufacturing, industrial biosciences/enzymes, coatings, building products, packaging, printing,distribution, agriculture, nutrition, food ingredients, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, business services, commerciallandscaping, restaurants and retail.
He has a proven aptitude in using strong communication, interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills to deliverwinning engagement solutions and strategies to achieve client goals and objectives.
Steven received an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and BS in Accounting from the University ofDelaware. While not practicing he is also a CPA and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt with lean manufacturingexperience.
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Click to edit Master title styleIndustrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingMarc Schneider – Team Member
Marc SchneiderSenior Managing Director
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Marc has spent over thirty years working on Wall Street as a corporate lawyer, investment banker and asset manager.In those roles Marc has worked with hundreds of companies and capital providers from small entrepreneurialbusinesses to Fortune 500 companies. His experience includes raising equity and debt in both the public and privatecapital markets, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and corporate balance sheet restructurings.
Prior to joining Young America, Marc was a Managing Director for Avenue Capital group, one of the largest globalinvestors in corporate debt. At Avenue, Marc was responsible for all of Avenue’s investments in chemicals, materials,paper, packaging, building and construction materials and energy sectors. In his roles he invested over $2 billion inover 50 companies, managed acquisitions and divestitures, led corporate balance sheet restructuring and negotiatedbank refinancing and covenant waivers.
Prior to working at Avenue, Marc worked at Salomon Smith Barney and predecessor firms as an investment banker. AtSalomon, Marc represented industrial manufacturing businesses, building products and construction materialscompanies and homebuilders. His experience included running mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt capitalmarket financings.
Marc began his career practicing law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore where he represented large commercial financialinstitutions in syndicated loans and structured finance projects. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering and JDfrom the University of Miami.
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Click to edit Master title styleIndustrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingMark Chlapowski– Team Member
Mark A. ChlapowskiExecutive Director
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Mark is an emerging markets veteran with 25+ years of experience as a corporate financier and advisor. A generalist,he has served sovereigns, institutions and companies across many industries within the context of challengingmarkets.
He started his career and trained at Irving Trust, now BNY Mellon, where he was a lending officer in its LATAM group.Subsequently, he formed part of the decade-long, #1 M&A advisory team in Argentina, BGN-Credit Suisse FirstBoston. Later, he returned to the US and worked in the capital markets unit of the private sector of the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank, prior to returning to Argentina to lead the startup of Cohen SBSA’s public market structuredfinance effort which achieved a #3 rank four years after inception. Then, after briefly working in a businessdevelopment capacity at KPMG, he pursued entrepreneurial, principal and academic interests before joining theYoung America Capital team in 2018.
Mark has worked on nearly 20 completed strategic transactions for the transfer of control of assets valued in excess ofUSD 5 billion, a few of which with significant industry import, such as the privatization of Argentina’s Bahia Blancapetrochemical pole.
He earned his BA at Georgetown University and his MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia BusinessSchool. He holds active FINRA 63 & 79 licenses. Mark is bilingual English/Spanish and has working knowledge ofPortuguese.
Click to edit Master title styleIndustrials, Chemicals & ManufacturingPeter Formanek – CEO
Peter FormanekFounder and Managing Partner
Peter is an entrepreneur and seasoned financial professional with over 30 years’ experience advising fund managers,family offices and companies. He has been involved in over 300 transactions over the course of his career. He has astrong track record in the financial industry with a focus on originating, executing and managing debt and equityprivate placements, mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions and corporate finance advisory engagements.
Peter founded Young America Capital in 2009 and has successfully overseen the completion of 120 transactionstotaling $1 billion. He has grown the firm to 65 representatives located throughout the United States covering manyindustries including: Consumer & Retail; Energy & Clean-Tech; Financial Services & Fin-Tech; Industrials, Chemicals& Manufacturing; Life Sciences & Healthcare; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; Real Estate; Transportation;Legal Cannabis as well as Fund Marketing and the firm's Latin America business.
Prior to establishing Young America Capital, Peter worked as a buyside deal flow origination director for the SouthernCross Group’s Latin America division. At the Southern Cross Group, Peter played an integral role in the firm’s financialoperations, capital raising and development of the firm’s LP reporting processes. He sourced over $370 million incapital commitments from high net-worth individuals and family offices closing several funds.
Peter co-founded a wealth-focused CPA and advisory firm. He began his career as a Financial Analyst with Spear,Leeds & Kellogg and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Peter received his BS in Accounting and an MBA in Finance fromthe University of Bridgeport. He holds FINRA licenses 7, 24, 28, 63, 79, 99.
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Young America Capital141 East Boston Post Road
Mamaroneck, NY 10543Phone: (914) 777–0100
www.yacapital.com
Steven ZelacSenior Managing Director
Mark A. ChlapowskiExecutive Director
Peter FormanekManaging Partner
Marc SchneiderSenior Managing Director
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