Tom Davidson's Contact Details

Tom Davidson's Company Details

Davidson Capital Group LLC

Santa Rosa Beach, FL, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Investment Bank/Securities Brokerage

Davidson Capital Group LLC was founded in 1998 by Tom Davidson senior, and immediately raised $100 million on behalf of Ken Bajaj and AppNet Systems from Bruce Rauner at GTCR in Chicago to fund a roll-up transaction (soon to become a public company worth $1.2 billion). DCG then raised $50 million for Ashok Thareja and Orblynx from Madison Dearborn, Spectrum Equity and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Especially over the next decade and to the present time, DCG widened its financing activities for companies in diverse industries, including financial services, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, medical devices, technology, telecommunications, food production, and others. While most DCG assignments have been in the USA, DCG also represents clients from a variety of foreign countries, most recently including Denmark, New Zealand and India.DCG represents owners of companies in sell-side transactions and has produced very attractive sale results for their clients, for businesses as diverse as shipbuilding and food production and international sales. A graduate of Williams College and Duke Law School, Tom began as a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York City, representing many of the major national investment banks and corporations. He then became Senior Vice President and General Counsel for T. Boone Pickens at Mesa Petroleum in Texas, then in the same capacity for Robert E. Thomas at MAPCO, Inc., a broadly diversified $3 billion energy company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was later Senior Vice President of a newly-created affiliate of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc., of Omaha, Nebraska, one of the nation's largest construction companies, related to their $2 billion acquisition of a national packaging company. Several times, Tom re-entered the law world to create Corporate and Securities Groups at major law firms in New York, and in Washington, D.C. for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld. One of Tom's current interests is LeadershipForUS.