A Boutique Life: 6Pacific Deals with Crowded Market
The recession was kind to banker John Barrymore. The recovery has been tougher. Barrymore, former head of the food and beverage group at BMO Capital Markets, co-founded 6Pacific Partners just as Wall Street was imploding. The goal was to provide M&A advisory services and equity capital (between $1m-$5m) to companies in the food, beverage, nutrition and consumer space. And there was plenty of work. “When we started there weren’t many other boutiques, because people were making so much money at big banks,” Barrymore explained. “, no one has an advisory business focused on large consumer companies combined with an equity vehicle focused on small companies.”
16 July 2010•3 mins read
