May, 2016

Third Coast Capital Advisors served as exclusive financial advisor to Lawson Products, Inc. in its acquisition of F.B. Feeney Hardware. Our Strategic Acquisition Search services included identifying the target and making contact with its owner, as well as providing assistance on valuation, transaction structure and the negotiation and closing of the transaction.

This transaction represents the third proprietary acquisition that we have sourced and closed for Lawson in the last seven months.

F. B. Feeney Hardware, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, has been serving the industrial market in Toronto and the surrounding areas since 1952 and is known as a fleet specialist. The company’s products and value proposition are similar to that of Lawson Products’ and include vendor managed inventory services.

Lawson Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAWS) is a distributor of consumable products serving the industrial, commercial, institutional and government maintenance, repair and operations ("MRO") market. Under its Kent Automotive brand, it supplies products and services to collision and mechanical repair shops as well as OEMs. The Company has over 900 sales representatives and nearly 100 sales managers and directors throughout North America. It is headquartered in Chicago, IL and publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.