Washington, DC (October 5, 2006) -- FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment banking firm with a global reach providing merger, acquisition, and corporate, structured and project finance services, announced it acted as the Advisor to BMS Holdings S. A. and Lead Arranger in its Leveraged Management Buyout of BOCS and BMS. The transaction, which was closed on August 21st, 2006, was financed with a debt facility from Dexia Bank. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more...

Washington, DC (September 26, 2006) -- FOCUS Enterprises, Inc. announces that Blue Canopy Group has secured expansion capital to accelerate its growth. CareTek, LLC has acquired certain ownership interest in Blue Canopy and will supplement the leadership team as well as provide expansion capital. The details of the transactions, which closed September 12th, were not disclosed. Read more...

Washington, DC (September 18, 2006) -- FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate finance services, announced that John Runningen has joined the firm as a Partner. He will be based in the firm’s Atlanta Southeastern Regional headquarters office, which is located in the Atlanta Financial Center. Read more...

Washington, DC (September 12, 2006) – FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate finance services, announced that their Managing Partner, Southeast Region, George Shea, has been named to the Atlanta Venture Forum’s (AVF) Board of Directors. Read more...

Washington, DC (September 11, 2006) – FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate finance services, announced that Eric Oganesoff has joined the firm as a Partner. He will be based in the firm’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Read more...

Washington, DC (June 20, 2006) – FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate finance services announced that James (Jim) Hawkins, PhD has joined the firm as a Partner. He will be based in the firm’s national headquarters in Washington, DC. Read more...

Washington, DC (May 23, 2006) – A new joint venture partnership, NVG/FOCUS, the brainchild of New Vantage Group, LLC (NVG) of Vienna, VA and FOCUS Enterprises, Inc. (FOCUS) of Washington, DC is part of a winning group, Seraphim Capital, which has been awarded one of five slots in the UK Enterprise Capital Fund (ECF) initiative. The initiative, a public/private partnership, is designed to fill an “equity funding gap” in which UK firms that are up and running but have not yet achieved profitability find it difficult to obtain growth capital. NVG/FOCUS is the only US partner in the country-wide program initiated by the UK Treasury and developed by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Read more...

In an article by Jeff Fleischer featuring Nancy Sharp of Food for Thought, Ms. Sharp describes FOCUS as “The FOCUS group connected me to banking, legal, and consulting services that I would never have had access to, and has recommended us for many catered events,” she says. Read more...

In an article by Don Durfee, FOCUS Senior Advisor Dick Cook is quoted as follows: “Indeed, an alliance makes better due diligence possible, particularly when the company owns enough to win a board seat (typically 8 to 10 percent for a private firm). ‘When you have a board seat, you understand the financials from one end to the other,’ says Dick Cook, a senior adviser with FOCUS, a boutique investment advisory firm. ‘You understand if the board is under pressure to sell or if they’re having a hard time paying their bills.’” Read more...