Dresner Partners Announces Partnership With Centaur Partners

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Apr 17, 2014) - Dresner Partners, a leading FINRA-registered, middle-market investment bank and IMAP member firm with offices in Chicago and New York, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Palo Alto-based Centaur Partners, LLC. The partnership was designed to expand the breadth of Dresner's technology practice and increase its presence in the Silicon Valley area. Centaur Partners will gain access to Dresner's expertise in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, technology, industrials, consumer products, and financial and business services.

Centaur Partners is a middle-market investment bank specializing in technology private placements and buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisition transactions. Centaur's specialties include IT Security, IT Infrastructure, Software as a Service (SAAS) and Cloud, Big Data Analytics, Internet, Mobile and Digital Media.

"Centaur will be a tremendous partner for Dresner Partners due to its extensive technology experience in the heart of Silicon Valley," said Steven M. Dresner, President of Dresner Partners. "This partnership will be extremely valuable to many of our current Dresner clients operating in industries that have increasingly become technology dependent, including the healthcare, financial services and business services sectors."

"Dresner Partners is an established middle-market investment bank with a history of success in numerous categories," said David Stastny, Founder and Managing Director of Centaur Partners. "Our team looks forward to working in collaboration with Dresner to create new opportunities for both of our clients."

About Dresner Partners
Dresner Partners is a FINRA-registered, middle-market investment bank headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an office in New York City. Founded in 1991, Dresner Partners provides financial advisory services to middle market companies throughout the world, including institutional private placements of debt and equity, merger and acquisitions advisory, financial restructuring & corporate turnarounds, valuations and strategic consulting services. Dresner Partners is also a member of IMAP, an exclusive global organization of leading merger and acquisition advisory firms. An affiliated company, Dresner Corporate Services, is a strategic communications firm specializing in public and investor relations. More information is available at www.dresnerpartners.com or www.imap.com/locations/office.cfm?OfficeID=416. You can also follow Dresner partners on Twitter: www.twitter.com/DresnerPartners. 

About Centaur Partners
Centaur Partners provides strategic merger and acquisition advisory and management consulting services to high technology companies. The Centaur team has completed transactions for or consulted hundreds of public and private clients in Software as a Service (SAAS) and Cloud, IT Security and Infrastructure, Big Data Analytics, Internet, Mobile and Digital Media. For more information, please visit www.centaurpartners.com.