The Berkshire Group of South Florida

Introducing The Berkshire Group of South Florida

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What We Do

The Berkshire Group of South Florida specializes in providing business development, oversight management, advisory and M&A services to key industries. This includes: energy and alternative energy, specialty chemicals, coatings, polymers, biotech, environmental services and related industries. With our technical engineering background and senior business experience, we provide the most useful market, industry and technical assessments, acquisition screening, strategic growth, transaction work, and, as needed, followup advisory and management services.

What Sets Us Apart

Unlike many firms, Mr. Habib has the key technical, project management, and Board Advisory experience to work directly on the project to provide his insight and perspective. We also have a network of key players as well as private companies and transaction experience to provide professional M&A services and acquisition screening.

Our Typical Projects

Typical projects range from technical and feasibility studies to growth strategies and various M&A. Learn more about our most recent projects.

- Growth strategy and execution for adhesives business.
- Finding strategic partner/investor for novel soil additive developer.
- Oversight and advisor on recent chemical acquisition.
- Key trends in CASE industries.

Our Qualifications

We have strong technical and business backgrounds and hands-on senior-level industry experience, to assist clients in all phases of business development, as well as specific needs and markets for specialty chemicals, coatings, polymers, adhesives, plastics, energy, environmental services and biotechnology. Over 7 years of global chemical engineering, startups, and development of new processes.

Trans-Cycle Industries and TCI, Inc. companies: Privately held environmental services company which provides decontamination and recycling of obsolete and PCB contaminated electrical equipment and metals.
- Polacryl, Inc.
- Elitine Corp (venture licensing)
- Gerald Habib served as a Director of Besicorp Group, an AMEX listed independent energy company. During his six year tenure, Gerald was an independent director and chairman of the Compensation Committee and played a key advisory role in Besicorp's going private and other major transactions and decisions as well as significant litigation matters.
- For several years (until it was sold to Chemcraft), Gerald Habib served as a Director of Polymer Solutions, Inc., a coatings/adhesive company. This company which owned AMT, a fast growing California-based water based coatings and adhesives company, was listed on the Vancouver Stock exchange as well as the OTC bulletin board. Gerald also served as a member of the executive committee and the audit committee.
- For several years, until it’s eventual asset sales and monetization, Gerald was a Director of Trans-Cycle Industries, Inc. and TCI, Inc. companies in the U.S. and Canada. This privately held environmental services company, through its facilities in Alabama, New York and Ontario Canada, provides decontamination and recycling of obsolete and PCB contaminated electrical equipment and metals.
- NL Chemicals, NJ ($1B diversified)
- Spencer Kellog Coating Resins ($100MM)
- Rheox Additives ($120MM)
- Kronos T102 Pigments ($800MM)
- Olin Chemicals

Meet the Executive Team

Gerald A. Habib

Gerald 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 BS degree in Chemical Engineering from CCNY, an MBS in FInance from NYU, 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.

Our Clients

Client Spotlight

For our client First Boca Associates, we provide 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.