Arch Partners

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Base has substantial deal experience and is an expert in investing, financing, and engineering liquidity events. His accomplishments include:

• Chairman of the Screening Panel for the Desert Angels
• Co-founder of US Capital Partners, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm formed to provide middle-market companies with first-class advisory services by senior professionals who have significant Wall Street and operating experience
• Completion of in excess of $6 billion in financing and advisory transactions for over 100 middle-market private and public companies
  • Financial advisory experience includes sale and divestiture assignments, strategic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, financial restructurings, takeover defense assignments, and valuation and capital structure studies
  • Financing transaction experience includes private placements of common and preferred stock, subordinated and convertible debt, and senior term and revolving credit facilities

Base received his BA degree with honors in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA with honors in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago.