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Breakout operates across two distinct but complementary mandates: advising companies on debt and M&A transactions, and building the commercial origination infrastructure required to access sophisticated buyers and generate qualified opportunities.
01 / CAPITAL ADVISORY
Debt and M&A advisory for middle-market companies.
We advise management teams through debt financings and M&A transactions, from positioning and counterparty identification through diligence, negotiation, and execution.
DEBT ADVISORY · M&A ADVISORY · TRANSACTION EXECUTION
02 / COMMERCIAL ADVISORY
Systematic origination for companies operating in complex markets.
We build the market intelligence, positioning, and distribution infrastructure required to identify qualified counterparties and create a repeatable commercial pipeline.
MARKET INTELLIGENCE · COMMERCIAL POSITIONING · ORIGINATION & PIPELINE
CAPABILITIES
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CAPITAL
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CAPITAL
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CAPITAL
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COMMERCIAL
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COMMERCIAL
MANDATE FIT
Breakout advises established and scaling middle-market companies pursuing a material capital event, entering a complex market, or building a more disciplined origination function.
PRELIMINARY FIT
STATUS:
STRONG POTENTIAL FIT
OPERATING PROFILE:
ESTABLISHED / SCALING
STRATEGIC CATALYST:
CAPITAL EVENT / COMMERCIAL EXPANSION
MARKET STRUCTURE:
COMPLEX / RELATIONSHIP-DRIVEN
COUNTERPARTIES:
INSTITUTIONAL / SOPHISTICATED
ENGAGEMENT:
SENIOR-LED / CONTROLLED
COMPANY
An established operating business with differentiated capabilities, credible leadership, and demonstrated market relevance.
SITUATION
A debt financing, acquisition, sale process, market entry, or commercial origination mandate with material strategic importance.
MARKET
A complex B2B or institutional environment where qualified access and precise positioning matter more than broad-volume outreach.
ENGAGEMENT
A management team seeking senior advisory involvement, a controlled process, and measurable forward movement.
CAPITAL EVENTS · COMMERCIAL EXPANSION · COMPLEX MARKETS
SELECTED MANDATES
Years combined advisory experience
In aggregate transaction volume
Investor relations supported
Terence Kawaja
Strategic Advisor
Terence Kawaja is the Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm at the intersection of media and technology. A seasoned investment banker with over two decades of experience, Terry has advised on more than $300 billion in transactions - including some of the most consequential deals in media and tech history. Prior to LUMA, he served as Global Head of Media M&A at Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston. He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Rana DiOrio
Strategic Advisor
Rana DiOrio is a technology investment banker, former corporate and securities attorney, entrepreneur, and investor whose career includes Merrill Lynch, Alex. Brown & Sons, Bank of America Securities, and North Point Mergers & Acquisitions, where she has served as Managing Director. Rana brings experience helping companies raise capital, pursue acquisitions, and develop and execute growth strategies. Her background combines software and technology investment banking with corporate and securities law experience at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro.
Darko Atijas
Strategic Advisor
Darko Atijas is a global operator and dealmaker whose career spans more than two decades across private equity real estate, venture-backed technology, and corporate finance. During his tenure in private equity, Darko contributed to several landmark transactions - including the $1.9 billion XI / 76 Eleventh Avenue mixed-use development in New York City featuring the Six Senses Hotel & Residences, and a $1+ billion portfolio of residential and hospitality projects across the U.S. and Europe. He currently serves as COO of Tech Universal Ventures and holds board positions across emerging technology companies globally. He holds an MBA from Macquarie University.
Ryan Bryden
Founder
Ryan Bryden began his career in business development, learning firsthand how institutional relationships are formed and where distribution consistently breaks down. While still completing his Bachelor of Business Management at Western University, he founded Breakout Capital Group - an advisory firm built to solve the distribution problem for growth-stage companies struggling to build systematic sales pipeline through technology-enabled distribution.
The pattern he encountered in growth advisory kept surfacing in an unexpected place. The companies Breakout worked with weren't just struggling to find customers - they were struggling to find capital. And the investment banking infrastructure meant to solve that problem was operating on the same broken model: closed networks, static lists, and a process built around the advisor's relationships rather than the founder's outcome.
Bryden recognized the problem was identical.
He partnered with a team of senior capital markets professionals - dealmakers with decades of transactional experience across Wall Street and boutique investment banking - and extended Breakout's origination methodology into the fundraising mandate. The result is a firm that brings institutional-grade advisory discipline and modern, data-driven origination infrastructure to the capital raise - working today with some of the world's best technology companies to deliver the access, precision, and timeline in a new age of investment banking and capital markets outcomes.
