About Us
First Boca Associates, Inc. (FBA) is a mid-market merger and acquisition niche specialist. FBA maintains relationships with a global network of well funded buyers and investors primarily focused on the acquisition, merger, or recapitialization of all or part of mid-market, US based companies (revenue over $10 million or EBITDA over $2 million).
FBA has spent the past 20 years establishing relationships with a broad spectrum of qualified investors, including private equity and institutional funds, strategic investors and family offices. We are in active daily communication with buyers regarding their target investment criteria. Through our global network of investors, we can bring you confidential inquiries from those that see investing in, or with, your company as a mutually advantageous deployment of their capital.
FBA has been continuously involved, since 1994, in consulting engagements with a U.S. and international client base that focuses on M&A, strategic planning, marketing opportunities, capital formation, and private to public market transitions.
OUR TEAM
President of First Boca Associates, Inc. Facilitating M&A and financial transactions for clients and investors ranging from privately held to NYSE. FBA has successfully closed transactions for clients in amounts significantly exceeding $100 million.
Clients benefit from Mr. Weinberg’s exceptional experience and extensive high-level connections that leverage years of transactional experience for his own national award-winning business interests.
Mr. Weinberg serves as a business advisor specializing in mid-market business M&A transactions, corporate and project finance, major real estate sales and advising growth companies with market leading or disruptive technologies. First Boca Associates, Inc. has been established for over 20 years as a national award winning advisory firm with a flawless regulatory record and outstanding client relationships.
Education and Affiliations: BBA and MBA Degrees in Finance from the University of Miami (FL), past City Commissioner (Parkland, FL), past Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), past resident FL insurance licensee and non-resident licensee in over 40 states, active RE Broker licenses in FL and GA.
Entrepreneur: Founder and owner of Nationwide Club Administrators, Insurance Strategies, ASI Agency, and Strategic Marketing Associates, Inc. – Developed new products, created new markets and managed nationwide sales and distribution. Insurance company experience developing products, contracts and administrative procedures for American Bankers Insurance Group (FL). Initiated and participated in asset sales between companies, agencies and individual agents. As a city commissioner, helped negotiate land sales and community development at the corporate and city level.
Gerald Habib specializes in providing key business development management and M&A services to the energy, specialty chemicals, coatings, polymers, biotech, environmental services and related industries. This includes market, industry and technical assessments, acquisition screening, strategic growth and transaction work and advisory and management services.
Mr. Habib has key management and Board Advisory experience as well as being an experienced business development executive who works directly on assignments to provide insight and perspective.
Gerald also has a degree in Chemical Engineering and years of process, design, global licensing and startup experience in various chemical technologies.
Gerald has worked with over 50 multinational companies, privately held companies, investment bankers and financial institutions on a variety of assignments from conference calls to detailed growth teamwork and market and product studies. He has also participated in acquisition screening of over 100 specialty chemical companies and acted as advisors on the acquisition and sale of small chemical businesses. chemical businesses….Recently, he has been involved in various solar and energy storage technologies in an executive capacity and was COO of a $30 million specialty hazardous waste company.
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Mica Madison Grant, known to her many friends and business relationships as “Mica”, has an advisory career of making things happen at the high end of the market, whether it is real estate, business or the arts. This is accomplished by leveraging her extensive network of contacts and experience for the benefit of her clients.
From a very early age, Mica was consumed by Fashion Design / Architecture and Science. Her early education was completed in the West Country England, where she studied Biology, Chemistry and Physics. up to Advanced Level of Micro-Biology. Additionally, as she had not decided on a true direction, she also studied and completed Advanced Certification in Art, Design and Art History, completing her Thesis on Henry Moore.
Upon coming to New York, to initially focus on Fashion and Design, Mica developed relationships that led more and more to designing interiors. This led to working with contractors and people in both Fashion, the Arts, Movie and Theatre Production and also, Construction. Working with Builders, designers and an understanding of how the space and structure related to each other was a major plus in both helping clients and growing a career. This led to working more and more with contractors and help in planning their projects to advancing to helping them secure financing, to overseeing budgets and working with the clients to develop and expand portfolios on very significant levels.
Mica Grant serves as an advisor to many private clients. Specializing in Construction Development working with both startups and seasoned Residential and Commercial Developers. Having over thirty years’ experience in ground up construction, Mrs. Grant has developed strong relationships and connections at every level and area of Real Estate Development, Land Acquisition, Business, Energy and Project Financing. Mica Grant specializes in bringing together the correct partnerships to facilitate growth, and project success; utilizing investors, private funding and equity partnerships at a level of excellence and integrity.
As the newest member of the FBA team, Mica has already introduced several billion
dollars of business, project and real estate opportunities.
Passions:
- Providing excellent and exceptional service with integrity
- Working with Women
- Developers and Designers
- Horses, Music of every Genre, Fishing