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GroupArgent

Organization
Type Commercial
Focus Banking & Finance
Region NA
Country
  • United States of America
City New York
Founded 2005
Founders Pierre-Georges Roy

Maurice Watkins.

Websites

GroupArgent, formerly known as Milbank Roy & Co., is a merchant bank focused on Data Economy. It assists with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, debt financing, private placements, management buyouts, financial opinions, and financial restructuring services to middle-market companies.[1]

History[edit | edit source]

Pierre-Georges Roy and Maurice Watkins established Milbank Roy & Co. in 2005 as a general investment banking boutique. The company became successful and expanded internationally. In 2009, Drew Meyers joined the company and changed its name to GroupArgent, utilizing the French word 'argent', which means silver or money. The company added Private Equity Investing to its business offerings as well as regional partners in New England and Latin America.[2]

Local Partner[edit | edit source]

Damian Voltes is the company's local partner in Latin America. He has 15 years experience with companies specializing in data economy, and is the CEO of Patagonia Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm as well as Emerging Cast, Inc. a company dedicated to producing, aggregating, and syndicating short form videos on the web, television and mobile devices. Voltes is also the founder of Digital Ventures, In Zearch, Cupones Online.com Inc, Netkiosk S.A. and Internet Marketing Group.

Focus Sectors[edit | edit source]

Group Argent is focused on creating investment opportunities in the areas of Communications Infrastructure, Mobile Applications, Data Warehousing, Backup, and Maintenance, Digital Advertising, E-commerce, Social Media, Direct Response & Marketing Services, SaaS, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Transaction Processing and Business Process Outsourcing.[3]

Services[edit | edit source]

  1. Merchant Banking
  2. Merger & Acquisitions
  3. Capital Raising
  4. Strategic Advisory

Clientelle[edit | edit source]

The company served as financial advisor on transactions made by mailcreations.com, Clickdiario Networks, EPIC Investment Partners, BuyDomains.com, Digital Ventures, and directresponsemedia inc.[4]

References[edit | edit source]

North America, according to the ICANN Geographic Regions (ICANN Geographic Regions).

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