Jordan Knauff & Company Awarded Top Honors at the Americas M&A Atlas Awards

Jordan Knauff & Company (JKC) was honored to receive the Energy Services & Manufacturing Deal of the Year award for 2013 at the Americas M&A Atlas Awards recently in New York City. The M&A Atlas Awards recognize outstanding achievements of firms and individuals in the middle-market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) industry throughout North and South America. JKC was also selected as a finalist in two additional categories: North America Deal of Year (deal size of $5 to $150 million) and U.S.A. M&A Deal of the Year (deal size of $50 to $150 million).

JKC was recognized for its role as exclusive financial advisor to Dynapower Company, LLC (Dynapower) in connection with its sale to Pfingsten Partners, LLC. Dynapower required an advisor that could properly articulate the company’s entrenched position in legacy markets as well as its potential growth from a promising new market. The company’s owners selected JKC to represent them in this transaction because of JKC’s reputation for delivering high quality, innovative M&A advice to middle-market companies and its extensive experience in the manufacturing and energy sectors.

Since its founding in 1963, Dynapower has evolved into a diversified, industry leading manufacturer of power transformers, rectifiers, and bidirectional inverters that convert electricity between alternate current (AC) and direct current (DC). Dynapower’s superior technological expertise and mission critical product offering make it a global leader in the power conversion and energy management systems markets.

JKC was instrumental in keeping the market interested and engaged in the deal throughout a lengthy sale process that was impacted by negative exogenous events. In the end, JKC was able to overcome these challenges, revise the selling strategy from its original mission of partnering with a strategic buyer, identify a blue chip financial buyer, and close the deal within a 70-day period. Dynapower is now uniquely positioned to capitalize on new market opportunities in smart grid energy storage as well as increase market share in its core power supply end markets both domestically and internationally.

“We are immensely proud of this transaction. Our entire Dynapower team did an outstanding job in creating a process that realized significant value for our client,” stated Mr. G. Cook Jordan, Jr., Managing Principal at JKC. “This award recognizes JKC’s creative solutions and unmatchable experience in the middle-market, both of which differentiate us from our peers,” he continued.

About Jordan Knauff & Company
Jordan Knauff & Company is a knowledgeable and experienced provider of a comprehensive line of investment banking services to private companies in North America. Services include mergers and acquisitions advisory, debt and equity capital formation, and strategic financial services to companies in a variety of industries. Typical transaction sizes range from $10 million to $300 million in total consideration. To learn more about Jordan Knauff & Company, please visit www.jordanknauff.com or contact Mr. G. Cook Jordan, Jr. at 312-254-5901. JKC is a member of FINRA.

About Pfingsten Partners LLC
Pfingsten Partners LLC is an operationally focused private equity firm that focuses on building better businesses through operational improvements, professional management practices, global capabilities, and profitable business growth rather than financial engineering. Pfingsten Partners maintains a long-term approach focused on transactions between $15 and $100 million. For more information, please visit www.pfingsten.com.

About the Americas M&A Atlas Awards
Sponsored by the Global M&A Network, the Americas M&A Atlas Awards honor top deals, deal makers, and firms from North and South America middle-market M&A communities. Judging is based on identifiable deal performance metrics across five broad criteria. Winners are selected by an independent panel for completing top value-generating transactions. For more information, please visit www.globalmanetwork.com.