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Elmcore Group
Elmcore Securities LLC is a member FINRA/SIPC broker-dealer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on middle-market companies with under $200 million...
Elmcore Group
Elmcore Securities LLC is a member FINRA/SIPC broker-dealer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on middle-market companies with under $200 million in annual revenue and provides investment banking and strategic advisory services to companies with a worldwide footprint. Its expertise covers corporate finance, restructuring and turnaround, and financial and strategic advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and business development.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2011
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Chicago
Corporate office
Chicago, IL, United States
Principals
Felix Danciu
Chief Executive Officer
Kimberly Schmidt
Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Jared Grigg
Managing Director
Duncan Soqui
Associate
Tim Carroll
Analyst
Kaeden Beaty
Analyst
Zoe Hunt
Compliance Coordinator
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Is Elmcore Group a private equity firm or an investment bank?
It operates as both. Elmcore Securities LLC is a FINRA/SIPC member broker-dealer providing M&A, capital raising, and financial advisory services. That entity sits alongside Elmcore Group's principal investing function, which executes buyouts, growth investments, and restructurings directly in middle-market companies. This creates a dual revenue model: fee-based advisory work and balance-sheet returns from its own investments.
What size companies does Elmcore target?
Elmcore publicly states it focuses on middle-market companies with annual revenue under $200 million. Within that band, the firm works across situations ranging from venture-stage growth and pre-IPO rounds to complex restructurings and management buyouts. It does not disclose a minimum check size or an EBITDA threshold.
What is Elmcore's geographic mandate?
Elmcore describes its mandate as worldwide. It states experience across a wide array of domestic and international markets and offers business development expertise to companies regardless of product or geographic location. The firm does not name specific countries, regions, or non-US offices.
Who runs investment decisions at Elmcore Group?
The firm has not identified its managing partners, investment committee members, or senior leadership by name. Its public website and available regulatory records reference the legal entity Elmcore Securities LLC but provide no named principals. Until leadership is publicly disclosed, the decision-making structure remains opaque to outside allocators.
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