A refresher on Patheon Partners LLC / owned by Rene Ortiz Morentin...
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Pantheon Partners SRL ("Pantheon") is an investment banking firm that specializes in financing emerging growth companies, with an emphasis on technology, telecommunications, Mexico, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Pantheon is retainer-based and works on an exclusive basis with its clientele. Pantheon provides its clients with traditional investment banking services, and non-traditional financial services. These additional financial services include: equity financings, senior debt financings, bridge loans, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, management consulting, and specialized private placements. It is our corporate philosophy to provide clients with the proper financing tools and management services at the appropriate economic growth stage. Pantheon is therefore qualified to serve as a long-term financial partner for a company as it climbs the economic ladder of success.
In recent years, Pantheon management has financed and arranged commitments in excess of $6.0 billion for corporate acquisitions, debt restructuring transactions, initial capitalizations, supplemental working capital, and new product development. Pantheon focuses on corporations that have identified a unique market opportunity but lack the financial resources to fully exploit the opportunity. Pantheon provides a solution by bringing "Wall Street" sophistication to emerging growth companies. Pantheon provides funds in a combination of debt and equity securities that are tailored to satisfy the client's needs.
Pantheon provides financial consulting and strategic analysis of its client's strengths and weaknesses vis-à-vis the industry and competitive environment. Pantheon seeks to maximize its client’s objectives by identifying the proper financing alternatives, analyzing the structure and timing of the financing, and assessing the terms and conditions under which financing can be obtained.
René Ortiz Morentin, Managing Partner
Mr. Morentin is primarily responsible for investment banking activities, which includes mergers and acquisitions, private placements, senior debt financings, and Latin American ventures. Mr. Morentin has spent his entire business career in the investment banking, merchant banking and commercial banking fields. Mr. Morentin has structured and obtained financing on leveraged buy-out transactions such as: Hammermill Paper Paper Company ($500 million); Lorimar Telepictures Corp. ($300 million); Cluett-Peabody, Inc. ($165 million); Pandick Press Company ($150 million); Princeville Development Corp. ($70 million); US Home ($75 million); Northwest Airlines ($20 million); Carlos Murphy’s Restaurants, Inc. ($18 million); American Restaurants Group ($255 million); The Wright Companies, Inc.($15 million); and California Sports, Inc../Dr. Jerry H. Buss ($40 million). Additionally, Mr. Morentin arranged initial senior debt capital for The Bho-Ngam Resort Co., Bangkok, Thailand ($50 million), and McNall Entertainment, Inc., film production financing ($310 million). Santa Rosa Project – Project Finance for Mexico’s first private cargo airport, dam and industrial complex north of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Pantheon arranged in excess of $300 million in equity and $800 million in debt financing
Mr. Morentin served as Director and Special Advisor to Wei-Chuan Food Corporation, the largest Taiwanese food manufacturer, focusing upon Concord Securities Taiwan and Wei-Chuan China (1998–1999). From 1997–1998, Mr. Morentin served as U.S. Investment Advisory to Ta Yung Hsing Yeh Co., a $5 billion Taiwanese holding company, which has amongst its holdings the Hua Nan Bank, a supermarket chain, a drug store chain, and is one of the largest owners of real estate in Taipei.
Prior to founding Pantheon, Mr. Morentin has served as Managing Director of The Kensington Group, a Los Angeles-based investment banking firm; a Vice President of Manufacturers Bank (1992- 1994); Senior Vice President at Trafalgar Holdings, Ltd., a Los Angeles-based merchant bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions and off-shore project finance (1987-1989); Partner at Trafalgar Partners (1997-1989); Corporate and Institutional Services – Emerging Growth Group, Merrill Lynch (1985-1986); and with The Bank of America in Corporate Banking (1981- 1983). Mr. Morentin received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1983 and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona in 1981. In June 2000, Mr. Morentin was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in international law from the “Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanas” (The Mexican Academy of Human Rights). Mr. Morentin is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and is fluent in both English and Spanish.
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