Investment & Merchant Banking
to the Middle Market

Focus

While Triton works with companies in many different industries, we tend to focus on privately held and family owned businesses in the food, agriculture and specialty financial services industries.

Food and Agriculture
Triton's Principals have significant experience working with companies in the food and agriculture industry. We recognize the unique investing/lending characteristics often associated with the commodity markets and help you identify the appropriate capital structures and partners willing to support challenging business environments and exploit market growth opportunities. Having acted as both investor and advisor to this industry, we maintain a broad base of industry and financing contacts that provide valuable insights to this dynamic marketplace.

Financial Services
Triton's Principals have been lending practitioners, strategic advisors and investors in the financial services industry. Messrs Asmann and Nowlin both began careers as leveraged finance deal making professionals at large commercial finance companies. Prior to forming Triton, Messrs Asmann and Nowlin successfully founded and launched the specialty leveraged lending business for GMAC Financial Services known as GMAC Structured Finance (a joint venture with General Motors Acceptance Corp). Since inception, Triton has drawn from this unique financial services experience to advise and raise capital for both commercial and retail specialty finance businesses.

One particular area of expertise involves management “lift-outs” of specialty finance teams from larger institutional environments (similar to the joint venture completed by Triton’s principals with GMAC). This process involves carving out an integrated team of specialists with a proved history of workplace compatibility and successful performance, customizing an entrepreneurial business plan and identifying an investor partner to fund the new specialty finance platform. The ultimate goal of these highly sensitive and well orchestrated/coordinated processes is to match a business plan with an investor willing to share the success of the business with the professionals that create it.