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Overview

The Industrial Distribution and Services team concentrates on growing middle market companies that provide specialty distribution and services to a broad group of customers in diverse end markets regionally, nationally and globally. Clients in these respective industries help their customers improve performance and profitability by providing specialized products and services.

The Stephens’ team is unique in its specialization and combines deep industry knowledge with a full suite of investment banking services to deliver expert advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets transactions including public and private equity and debt offerings. The team has extensive relationships with many of the leading companies in targeted sectors, including both public and private companies. In addition to our corporate client relationships, we have a targeted effort directed at private equity firms that have a specialized focus in Industrial Distribution and Services.

Specialty Distribution
These clients are first- and second-tier distributors of products sold to MRO and OEM users in a variety of end markets including, but not limited to industrial machinery and equipment, mining, power, energy, food processing, services, chemicals and general manufacturing. We strive to understand very specific product verticals and the factors affecting each. Focus verticals include:

  • Pipes, Valves & Fittings 
  • Electrical
  • Safety
  • Fasteners
  • Industrial & Commercial Lubricants and Fuels
  • Power Transmission & Bearings
  • Integrated Supply
  • Pumps
  • Fluid Power
  • Aftermarket Parts
  • Industrial Rubber
  • Industrial Supplies

Industrial Services
Target clients are companies that provide hard and/or soft craft services to industrial and process facilities serving numerous end markets. These companies may be single- or multi-craft providers. We focus on many end market dynamics driving the growing demand for outsourced service providers, including regulatory and environmental, utilization, efficiency, infrastructure age and capital spending cycles. We concentrate on service providers to industries such as upstream, midstream and downstream energy, coal and nuclear power, petrochemical, and paper and forest products to name a few. Services we focus on include:

  • Industrial Cleaning
  • Welding Services
  • Turnaround and Outage Services
  • General Repair and Operating Services
  • Production Analysis
  • Specialty Construction and Installation Services
  • Testing Services
  • Tank and Pipeline Repair and Construction
  • Scaffold Services
  • Painting & Insulation Services