ACCELERATING
CEO and Senior Managing Director
Hilco Corporate Finance
HQ: Northbrook, IL
Hilco Corporate Finance stands out in the investment banking advisory space by utilizing a solution-oriented approach while taking advantage of the swath of capabilities across the greater Hilco Global brand.
Hilco Corporate Finance is a boutique investment banking advisor providing unmatched creativity and relentless support to private and public companies, private equity groups, family offices, and entrepreneurs.
A unique affiliation with Hilco Global enables the seasoned professional team at Hilco Corporate Finance to work in lockstep with the world’s leading experts in asset valuation, monetization, business advisory and capital solutions from across the expansive Hilco Global platform of companies.
Hilco Corporate Finance focuses on delivering an innovative, solution-oriented approach to investment banking advisory services rather than viewing every client interaction through a transactional lens. Taking the time to listen closely to clients and shaping the solutions it provides to match their needs has enabled the company to double its size and dramatically expand its geographic presence over the past 18 months, adding to both its rapidly growing special situations and restructuring practice as well as its capital advisory practice, hiring Scott Hadfield as senior managing director and national practice leader for capital advisory in early June just months after Richard Klein joined the firm to expand the special situation and restructuring practice.
Hilco Corporate Finance professionals have successfully completed hundreds of value-maximizing transactions across a broad range of industries, including diversified industrials/manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, metals/mining, plastics, building products, packaging, retail/consumer, business services and energy. Most recently, the company successfully advised multiple distressed consumer and retail businesses — many within the restaurant and food industries — in bankruptcy reorganizations and out-of-court strategic transactions. These clients have benefitted from Hilco Corporate Finance’s innovative integration of its practice with Hilco Global’s platform, including the firm’s intellectual property expertise, which it has leveraged to unlock “hidden” value both in sale and financing transactions.
“We’ve spent considerable time expanding our business by reimagining how capital advisory services can best be provided to middle-market clients and built our practice from the client’s point of view.”