A Leading Strategic Group with Transactions Exceeding $50 Billion

Our founders and senior professionals have closed transactions valued in excess of $50 billion, ranging from small placements to multi-billion dollar cross-border mergers of public companies.

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Proactive and Experienced Team

Our senior professionals have extensive experience as C-suite senior executives, investment bankers and counsel for some of the world’s best known corporations.

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Strong Expertise in Numerous Sectors

Our team has strong expertise in numerous sectors including Advertising, Energy, Entertainment, Hospitality and Leisure, Media, Natural Resources, Pharmaceuticals and Health Care, Real Estate, and Technology among others.

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Extensive Management Experience

Many of our senior professionals have served as chairmen, chief executive officers and chief operating officers for public and private businesses with global operations.

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SMI Group is a Los Angeles-based management consultant, investment bank and registered investment advisor that participates in creating and building companies, joint ventures and other business opportunities.  Our professionals have closed more than $50 billion of complex transactions and led multinational businesses with more than 30,000 employees.  We lead or participate in guiding the strategy, business development, growth, management and liquidity events of businesses.  We provide investment banking services for some of these businesses and other clients, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, other business combinations and dispositions, complex licenses, strategic investments and financings.

TRANSACTIONS COMPLETED BY SMI GROUP’S PROFESSIONALS

Exceeds $50 billion *

SMI Group’s professionals have led multi-national companies and divisions with billions of dollars in annual revenues and thousands of employees, and also led, structured, negotiated or advised on more than $50 billion of completed merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, licensing and related transactions.  SMI Group’s professionals may have acted as a principal, senior executive, investment banker, attorney or other advisor for these transactions.

  *   Transaction value is an estimate.

  • SMI Group LLC creates businesses, business opportunities and strategic alliances globally, with a focus on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.  SMI Group LLC also advises public and private businesses, government agencies and NGOs on strategy, marketing, organisation, management and operations. SMI Group LLC has two subsidiaries, SMI Capital Markets LLC and SMI Advisors LLC.
  • SMI Capital Markets LLC is an investment bank registered as a broker-dealer with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).  SMI Capital Markets provides licensed investment banking services in the United States, focused on mergers and acquisitions and private placements, particularly for strategic investments.
  • SMI Advisors LLC is a registered investment advisor that provides a platform for managing funds. References in this website to “SMI Group” refer collectively to SMI Group LLC (including SMI Group Consulting), SMI Capital Markets LLC, and SMI Advisors LLC, unless the context indicates otherwise.

What Drives Us

 

Our goal is to create businesses and business opportunities that deliver quality products and services to customers, while creating profits for the visionaries, entrepreneurs and management who conceive of and manage these businesses and investors who provide the capital.

Our Recent Ventures

 

Companies recently founded or co-founded by SMI Group, our CEO and our managing directors include, among others: a Toronto-based company engaged in acquiring, improving and operating film and television studios; a U.S.- and Europe-based company that has developed and is commercializing a proprietary renewable energy production system; U.S. and European battery technology companies; and a U.K.-based cybersecurity company.

Iconic companies and assets sold or acquired include*

MGM/UA Communications Co.

Desert Inn

United Artists

Sands (now, the Venetian)

Bally's

Dunes (now Bellagio)

Premiere Radio Networks

Earls Court/Olympia

MITEC

Metro Traffic Networks

Iconic Companies and Assets Sold or Acquired include*

Leading Companies Led or Advised by our Professionals Include*

Reuters

Tata Group

Preferred Bank

Texas Instruments

Hewlett Packard

Novell Corporation

Resorts World

* Includes businesses founded and advised by SMIG Group founders and senior professionals during and prior to their association with SMI Group.  (By clicking on an icon, the icon will rotate, showing the company name.  Then, for certain companies, double clicking will take the user to the company’s website. SMI Group has no responsibility for third‐party websites.  Should you leave the SMI Group website, you do so at your own risk.)

Spread Across Industries and Start-Ups

 

We also advise and are principals in start-up and emerging companies in branding and marketing, entertainment and media, energy and alternative energy, blockchain, artificial intelligence, security and technology. 

Values That Guide Our Business Transactions 

 

Our core value is to operate with the utmost honesty and integrity in all business transactions.  We are committed to creating not only financial profits, but also to increasing the value of “human capital”.  We are committed to respecting the rights of individuals and different cultures and to the growth and development of the communities in which we operate.

SMI Group LLC maintains this website and other websites that are linked to this website (the “Site”) for informational purposes only.  This Site does not contain information on any current financing, investment product or other transaction and does not provide any investment, tax or legal advice or service.  Nothing herein is a solicitation, offer, or recommendation, to acquire or dispose of any investment or to engage in any other transaction.

SMI Group LLC is not licensed as an investment bank, investment advisor or broker-dealer in any jurisdiction.  SMI Capital Markets is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and is a member of FINRA and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), licensed to provide investment banking services in the United States in conformity with its business plan. 

SMI Advisors is licensed as a registered investment advisor in Washington.

This Site is owned and controlled by SMI Group LLC and not by SMI Capital Markets, SMI Advisors or any other company mentioned on this Site. 

Investing in securities involves risks, and losses are always possible.

SMI Group LLC does not provide legal, tax or accounting advice.  You should consult your legal and/or tax advisors before making any financial decisions.

Asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing do not ensure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

The website for FINRA may be found at www.finra.org.  The website for FINRA’s BrokerCheck may be found at www.brokercheck.finra.org.  The website for SIPC may be found at www.sipc.org