COMPANY OVERVIEW
About & Mission
CIMA Capital Partners LLC, headquartered in Miami, Florida, specializes in providing unique solutions in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking and strategic planning. CIMA provides “hands on”, independent, transparent and personalized service to a select number of both international and domestic clients. Through its decades of relationships and networks CIMA delivers satisfactory results to meet the most demanding circumstances. Since inception in 2002, CIMA has arranged over $3 billion of financing. CIMA has particular interest in companies where it can have a significant impact in helping them reach their growth potential.
Insight
CIMA can best help clients that exhibit some of the following characteristics:
- Management and owners are committed to take steps to build substantial value in their business
- Post-venture capitalized small to medium sized public and private companies in a wide variety of industries, with particular interest in distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, service, retail/consumer products and foreign trade
- Large potential markets
- Global application
SERVICES
We Offer International Banking Solutions
Five key lines of business: M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory, Arranging Debt and Equity, Valuations, Commercial and Industrial Real Estate Financing and Condo Association Financing. CIMA arranges, with capital market participants, debt and equity solutions which may include the following:
- Asset based loans
- Working Capital financing
- Accounts receivable financing
- Purchase order financing
- Trade finance
- Construction and Permanent Loans
- Mezzanine and preferred stock
- Factoring
- Bridge loans
- Medium and long term debt
CIMA works with post-startup clients in all stages of raising debt and equity capital, from initial evaluation and structuring through closing:
- New capital for growth and expansion
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Companies revising their capital structure
CIMA works closely with clients to assure effective structuring, negotiating & implementation of:
- Company sales and divestitures
- Advice on executing acquisitions
- Strategic alliances, joint ventures and licensing agreements
- “Going private” transactions, including management buyouts and leveraged buyouts
CIMA is particularly sensitive to private company financing and investment decisions and works closely with client-designated advisors to consider tax, estate and reinvestment implications of:
- Decisions to sell or make acquisitions, recapitalize, go public or private
- Financial structuring and restructuring
- Valuations of closely held companies
CLIENT ORIENTED APPROACH
CIMA’s role as an advisor to companies provides our clients with important advantages including:
- Analytical approach to evaluating shareholder alternatives
- Ability to develop offering materials that are relevant to strategic, premium acquirers and financial investors
- Well established relationships with leading sources of senior, subordinated and trade finance debt
- Familiarity with terms and conditions of large international, publicly traded acquirers of small entrepreneurial corporations
- Experienced-based solutions for issues that arise during the transaction
- Adhere to a transaction framework that enables our clients to continue operating their business throughout the process
- Assists the client in developing a detailed operating plan consistent with management and owners long and short-term goals and objectives.
- Creates sophisticated financial models that can accurately manipulate growth and acquisition scenarios under various assumptions.
- Assists the client in preparing an information memorandum that is sent to potential investors and/or lenders
- Identifies private equity funds, strategic investors and lenders which offer the best fit for the client
- Assists in negotiating, structuring and closing transactions that will result in the optimal financing structure to meet the specific needs of the client
- Assists in the development of an exit strategy consistent with the goals of management, owners and investment partners
EXECUTIVES
Meet the Management Team
RINALDO CARTAYA
- Over 25 years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking
- International focus specializing in Latin America
- Specialist in structuring and marketing government, quazi government and corporate securitizations
- Senior executive with Condev Properties where he assisted in the development and funding of a variety of real estate projects.
- Member of the strategic and financial planning group of Ryder Systems
- Served on several private company Board of Directors
- MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
- BA in Economics and Business Administration from University of Miami
F. ROSS WALPOLE
- Over 30 years of international finance and investment banking experience
- Former head of capital markets and Partner Dillon Read International in London
- Former Managing Director Paine Webber International, London, responsible for all international fixed income sales and trading
- Former President of a NASD member firm specializing in small and medium sized banks and thrifts
- Director of both public and private companies
- B.S. in International Business from Boston University
PERCY AQUILA
- Over 35 years of experience in public finance, municipal consulting and advisory services, commercial and investment banking
- Senior banker and advisor on over $20 billion in financings and public debt issuances across hundreds of transactions for state and local governments, nonprofit institutions, special districts and taxable and tax-exempt entities throughout the southeastern United States, Puerto Rico, and Florida
- Former Executive Director and Senior Vice President with J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.
- Former Managing Director with RBC Capital Markets, Inc., Morgan Keegan & Company, and Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
- Practice Leader for Project & Public Finance with Bank United, N.A. and Fifth Third Bank, N.A. in Florida
- Master’s degree in public administration from NYU’s School of Public Service
- B.A. in Urban Affairs from The George Washington University
C. JOHN WALPOLE
- Over 20 years of experience in Corporate Finance and investment banking
- Participated in the structuring of over 750 Million in debt financing transactions
- Former founder of a fully licensed Registered Investment Advisor
- Previous experience with numerous banking institutions as well as FINRA Member trading firms.
- BA from Roanoke College in Economics
MARCOS A. ESPINEL
- Over 20 years of international banking and finance experience as Founder, Chairman and President of an Ecuadorian Bank
- Former Minister of Agriculture for the Republic of Ecuador
- Former advisor to the President of Ecuador, responsible for the restructuring of Ecuadorian foreign debt
- BS in Economics from Tufts University
- MBA Babson College
- Bachelor Degree in Law at the Catholic University of Guayaquil, Ecuador
TRANSACTION PROCESS
How we assist our clients
Engage the Client
Develop the engagement thesis around the client’s objectives and determine the viability of completing a transaction.
Due Diligence
Meetings to gain a comprehensive understanding of the business during which time CIMA collects pertinent information that will help to present the client to the marketplace in the most appropriate manner possible.
Preperation of Marketing Material
Develop the confidential information memorandum to be shared with potential investors/banks/etc.
Establish the Financial Universe
Create the universe that will serve as the compass to navigate the market of prospective financiers.
Qualify Financiers and Conduct Management Meetings
Vet and identify serious parties from the “lookers”, coordinate meetings with management, and establish “Term Sheet” deadline.
Deal Negotiating and Closing/Post Closing
Assist the client with deal negotiations and structure, ensuring a favorable outcome (within predefined parameters); assist in post closing matters.
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