Sector Expertise

At Blackshore, our people are our most important asset. This is why we leverage decades of experience across several distinct industries to uncover strategic market insights, identify new growth opportunities and provide professional, best-in-class advice and counsel to shareholders navigating complex, fragmented markets.

Business Services

Industrial Services

Professional Services

IT Services

Residential Services

Ancillary Services

We advise lower-to-upper middle-market business owners and financial sponsors on majority buyout, spin-off and capital raise transactions in the business services industry. Sectors include but are not limited to commercial services, industrial services, IT services, professional & tech-enabled services, and specialty distribution.

Cannabis is our bread and butter. With over six years of direct cannabis industry experience, we have helped advise new license holders, early-stage ventures, and established enterprises on a variety of matters, including but not limited to business valuation, receiverships, license and asset sales, private capital raises, and M&A transactions across all legal US markets.

Commercial Services

Specialty Distribution

Cannabis

Cultivation

Dispensaries

Distribution & Logistics

Manufacturing & Processing

Real Estate

Testing Laboratories

Consumer

We advise growth and expansion-stage consumer businesses on the basis of enhancing liquidity through minority interest acquisitions, sponsor-led buyouts, debt and equity capital raise, M&A and strategic partnership transactions. Focus areas include consumer products & services, consumer packaged goods, food & beverage and consumer multi-site.

*A comprehensive list of sector focus areas is available upon request. Please contact us to discuss your particular requirements.

Consumer Products

Consumer Packaged Goods

Consumer Services

Food & Beverage

Specialty Retail

Restaurants & Franchises

Financial Sponsors

We continue to develop long-term relationships with a diverse set of alternative asset managers. Our pool of capital partners extends across HNWIs, family offices, private equity funds, bank and non-bank lenders, REITs, hedge funds and other institutional and non-institutional investors. We work with sophisticated management teams through development of investment theses, access to quality direct and co-investment opportunities and M&A advisory.

Buy-Side M&A

Sell-Side M&A

Corporate Finance Support

Direct & Co-Investment Opportunities

Add-On, Divestiture & Post-Transaction M&A Support

Acquisition Financing

Continuation Vehicles

Heavily-Regulated Sectors

We regularly work with companies in high-growth, heavily regulated industries given our extensive experience helping navigate the nuances and complexities of federally-regulated or restricted markets. Our deep bench of private market investors, attorneys, consultants and government officials allow us to understand specific market rules, regulations and restrictions, uncover unique private market opportunities and strategic arrangements that are otherwise limited in conventional sectors.

Alcohol

Tobacco

Cannabis

Psychedelics

Firearms & Ammunition

Correctional Facilities & Services

Unconventional Assets (i.e. Luxury Planes, Yachts, Homes & Automobiles)

Industrials

We advise mature, mid- to late-stage businesses in the industrial sector, primarily through debt capital raise, debt advisory and M&A. We partner with high-performing, credit-worthy enterprises to accelerate profitability and company growth. Focus areas include building products & materials, industrial equipment & products, industrial services, specialty materials, contract manufacturing and packaging.

Building Products & Materials

Distribution & Packaging

Commercial Real Estate

Real Estate

We advise landlords, developers, REITs and other asset owners on value-add and opportunistic acquisition, development and construction projects across the U.S. Our primary focus lies on commercial real estate lending, dispositions and acquisitions in the Southeast US, including Class A and B multi-family, mixed-use, retail and agricultural properties, with a secondary focus on sale-leasebacks and luxury single-family residential home developments, rentals and purchases.

Residential Real Estate

Multi-Family

Mixed-Use

Retail

Data Centers

Sale-Leasebacks, Asset Purchases & Sales

Luxury Single-Family Residential

1st / 2nd Lien Mortgages