10/17/2019
ACG Atlanta Honors Bowstring’s Jim Childs as Dealmaker of the Year
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Citizens Bank announced today that the Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth®, a global professional organization with the mission of Driving Middle-Market Growth®, is recognizing Jim Childs, Managing Partner and CEO of Bowstring Advisors, a division of Citizens Capital Markets, as Dealmaker of the Year.
Childs is the founder and CEO of Bowstring Advisors, a middle-market mergers and acquisitions advisory firm founded in 2009. Bowstring was named as the Boutique Investment Bank of the Year in 2016 by The M&A Advisor and was acquired in March 2019 by Citizens Financial Group. As part of the acquisition, Childs was named Co-Head of M&A for Citizens and helps lead a practice of more than 70 M&A professionals.
Melanie Brandt, President and CEO of ACG Atlanta, said, “The winners of our 2019 Deals of the Year Awards achieved the highest performance and deal execution standards, representing the best of the highly qualified nominees this year. Jim is no exception. The growth and impact of Bowstring on the Atlanta community and beyond is impressive.”
The ACG Atlanta Deals of the Year committee panel consists of a wide variety of ACG member executives that comprise the local deals community. Nominations were considered based on the following criteria: economic development impact, complexity, involvement of strategic Atlanta business sectors, products or services with potential for significant local and global impact, and involvement of Atlanta investors, executives, and serial entrepreneurs.
“I am deeply honored to receive this award from ACG,” said Childs. “Since I started the firm in 2009, it has been an exciting journey from launch to now being a part of the Citizens platform. We are now a top 15 player in middle-market M&A as part of the Citizens team. I hope that we can be a top 5 or 10 player in the coming years.”
Citizens’ acquisition of Bowstring Advisors further strengthened its advisory capabilities and continued its expansion into the Southeast region. In December 2016, Citizens hired Brian Peters, a 25-year banking industry veteran and former managing director at SunTrust, as regional executive and head of the Southeast.
Bowstring Advisors, a division of Citizens Capital Markets, Inc., is the next generation middle-market investment bank that combines sector intelligence with a client-focused approach to realize a client’s true value. Citizens Capital Markets, Inc, is a member of FINRA and SIPC and is a registered broker-dealer. Please visit bowstringadvisors.com for more information and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $164.4 billion in assets as of September 30, 2019. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. Citizens helps its customers reach their potential by listening to them and by understanding their needs in order to offer tailored advice, ideas and solutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens provides an integrated experience that includes mobile and online banking, a 24/7 customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 2,900 ATMs and approximately 1,100 branches in 11 states in the New England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions. Consumer Banking products and services include a full range of banking, lending, savings, wealth management and small business offerings. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers corporate, institutional and not-for-profit clients a full range of wholesale banking products and services, including lending and deposits, capital markets, treasury services, foreign exchange and interest rate products, and asset finance. More information is available at www.citizensbank.com or visit us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
