In addition, FTICA offers investment banking services across a variety of industries for distressed situations. Importantly, FTICA provides its clients with value-added advice and execution that often involves a blending of multidisciplinary expertise in such areas as taxation, accounting, operations and strategic consulting, in addition to its expertise in the capital markets. Combined with FTICA’s industry expertise, the additional perspective results in superior advice and outcomes for our clients.

Among the resources FTICA uses to successfully differentiate itself from the competition are:

• Track Record of Successfully Closed Deals – FTICA’s senior investment banking professionals have a demonstrated track record of success and possess the core competency to handle complex transactions.Over the course or their respective careers, FTICA’s senior professionals have collectively been involvedinnumerous merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, fairness opinions and advisory assignments.
  
• Multi-disciplinary Approach – With almost 2000 professionals, many of whom have either operational backgrounds or are CPAs, Ph.Ds, MBAs or JD s, FTI has built an array of services designed to help companies address their strategic, operational, financial and capital needs. As a result, FTICA is able to provide expertise to the full spectrum of financial and transactional challenges faced by companies, boards of directors, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other parties-at-interest. In particular, both FTI and FTICA have a reputation for mobilizing the specialized resources needed for each unique situation to provide the necessary acumen to develop and implement workable solutions.
  
• Global Reach – FTICA capitalizes on FTI’s offices in the United States and overseas to provide our clients with access to overseas buyers, sellers and investors, as well as unique insight into the political and regulatory environments in these areas.
  
• High Standards of Public Accountability and Integrity – FTI is a New York Stock Exchange company, trading under the symbol FCN.Consequently, FTICA brings both credibility and integrity to all its assignments. FTI’s stature as a public company provides middle market company owners, boards of directors and other parties at interest with an unsurpassed degree of comfort in knowing that their transaction is being handled both competently and appropriately.
  
• Senior, Hands-On Involvement – Unlike other investment banking firms whose economic model does not enable it to assign senior executives to all but the largest of transactions, FTICA’s business model is predicated on a senior investment banking professionals being actively involved with each client from beginning to end on a day-to-day basis.FTICA’s senior bankers work with clients on a highly personalized basis to obtain the most advantageous terms available in the marketplace, and are skilled in negotiations, financial analysis and valuation.