Sequoia Partners is a merger and acquisition consulting firm that specializes in maximizing return for sellers of mid-size companies.

Sequoia Partners best represents its clients by combining a high level of client interaction, business understanding and strategic focus with financial market and legal process expertise. We work to maximize value and exceed expectations for every sell-side client we work with. We are not satisfied with standard results. Our Premium Transactions yield a superior return to shareholders and a great result for management and employees.  

Working as a team for 20 years, we have managed many highly successful transactions that overcame a myriad of objections and obstacles to completion. We act as your exclusive agent and serve only your interests.  We are discrete and discriminating in our work, insulating our clients from potentially negative and unwanted attention.

Sequoia Partners has only two employees, its two partners. Your transaction always receives our expert personal attention and the focused concentration it deserves. We provide you with the results you are expecting—and nothing less.

Marnin Kligfeld, our president, founded Sequoia Partners in 1986 after working for several years in strategic marketing of software products.  Since founding Sequoia Partners, Dr. Kligfeld has completed scores of sell-side M&A transactions in the software sector.  This work has delivered premium transactions to the founders/employees and the investors of Sequoia's client companies.  Marnin is our strategist and chief story-teller on behalf of clients.  He is also our process expert who “sees” how to bring all the elements of the M&A process together to deliver results.

 

As Director of Business Development and Strategic Product Acquisitions at Integral Systems, Inc., he evaluated hundreds of software products on all hardware platforms and ultimately negotiated for and acquired several strategically important new products. 

 

Prior to Integral Systems, Dr. Kligfeld worked at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). He worked directly with senior management to improve the interdepartmental effectiveness of the Company.

 

Dr. Kligfeld holds a Ph.D. and a masters degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from Temple University.  He has served on the board of directors of the Cure Autism Now Foundation.  He is married and has two daughters.

Richard Borenstein is chairman of Sequoia Partners.  Mr. Borenstein has personally managed a large number of deals both at Sequoia, and in previous positions with Wells Fargo and Salomon Brothers.

 

Prior to joining Sequoia, Rick was president of International Microcomputer Software Inc. (IMSI), where he took the company public in early 1986. He left in 1987 to join Marnin Kligfeld at Sequoia Partners, Inc.

 

Prior to IMSI, Mr. Borenstein worked at Wells Fargo & Co. for 10 years. During his tenure, Rick was Vice President and Deputy Controller of Wells Fargo Bank, Senior Vice President of Corporate Banking, managing the Financial Industries Group, and President of the venture capital subsidiary, Wells Fargo Investment Company.  At Wells Fargo Investment Company, Rick invested in more than two dozen venture financed companies, half of which were led by Wells Fargo Investment Company.

 

Mr. Borenstein began his career in corporate finance in 1972, working briefly for White Weld and Company and then at Salomon Brothers, Inc.  In 1974, he moved to the Bay Area and began his career at Wells Fargo & Co.

 

Mr. Borenstein received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served as a trustee of National Public Radio and on the Major Gifts Committee at the University of Michigan.  He is married and has one son.