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Kropschot Financial Services represented SWC Credit Leasing LP, of San Antonio, Texas Print E-mail
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, DEC. 18, 2008--Kropschot Financial Services, a unit of The Alta Group, announced the completion of several recent client assignments.  Kropschot Financial Services represented SWC Credit Leasing LP, of San Antonio, Texas, in the sale of its equipment lease portfolio to Kapok Investment Group, LLC, in October.  Kropschot Financial Services initiated this transaction and served as exclusive financial advisor to SWC Credit Leasing LP. 

In another recent transaction, Kropschot Financial Services initiated the sale of a 50 percent ownership interest in a small-ticket equipment leasing company to a private investor in a transaction that has not yet been publicly announced.  The firm also reported that is has secured new financing relationships for three of the firm’s clients.
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The Alta Group Consultancy Expands M&A Activities With Addition Of Kropschot Financial Services Print E-mail
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2008 – The Alta Group, http://www.thealtagroup.com the only global provider of specialized consulting services exclusively focused on equipment leasing and finance, today announced that it will expand its merger and acquisition activities significantly with the addition to Alta of Kropschot Financial Services, a noted merger and acquisition advisory firm based in Vero Beach, Fla..

Both Alta and Kropschot anticipate significant demand for a variety of M&A services for buyers and sellers of leasing companies or portfolios.

In addition to the joining of the two firms, Bruce Kropschot, who founded his mergers and acquisition firm in 1986, becomes a principal of The Alta Group, effective immediately, and will serve as managing principal of the firm’s expanded Merger and Acquisition Advisory Division. In addition to providing M&A advisory services to buyers and sellers of equipment leasing and financing businesses, Kropschot will help arrange debt and equity for clients and perform leasing company valuations.
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US Express Leasing Acquires MBO Finance Print E-mail

New Origination Platform Expands Capabilities in Graphic Arts and Printing Marketplace

PARSIPPANY, NJ, OCTOBER 9, 2007–-US Express Leasing, Inc. (USXL) announced today the acquisition of MBO Finance, a major provider of vendor financing to manufacturers, distributors and dealers in the graphic arts and printing industries. MBO Finance will become the core of USXL’s new graphic arts origination platform.

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Kropschot Financial Services Enters Canadian M&A Advisory Market Through Swandel and Associates Print E-mail

Bruce Kropschot announced today that Kropschot Financial Services, the leading merger and acquisition advisory firm for equipment and vehicle leasing and financing companies in the U.S., has entered the Canadian M&A market through a new relationship under which Swandel and Associates will represent Kropschot Financial Services in Canada. Swandel and Associates founder and President Hugh Swandel will work jointly with Kropschot Financial Services President Bruce Kropschot and Executive Vice President Jim Billings to provide Canadian leasing and financing companies with the expertise that Kropschot Financial Services has developed while arranging the sale of over 150 equipment and vehicle leasing and financing businesses in the U.S., Europe and South America over the past 21 years.

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