Independent Investment Group & Advisory Firm

For the capital decisions you only make once.

We advise founders, families, and sponsors on sales, acquisitions, debt, equity, divestitures, special situations and growth consulting.

Our principals and senior advisors have run these processes from the arranging side, at global and independent banks, for decades.

We put our own capital into businesses we understand, taking control or a significant minority, deal by deal.

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$1T+

Aggregate transaction experience

500+

Completed transactions

260+

Years combined experience

Advisory

Advisory built on ownership.

Six mandate types, plus the growth work behind them. Each page below states how the process runs, what each phase owes you, and the dated market evidence behind every position we take.

Sell-side M&A Buy-side M&A Special situations Debt advisory Equity capital Divestitures Growth consulting

Transaction credentials available upon request.

Investments

We buy to build.

Direct positions, control and significant minority, taken deal by deal in businesses we understand. We invest to grow a business quickly and drive it to a return. No fund clock, no sitting on assets.

Business Services Energy Real Assets & Infrastructure Industrials & Manufacturing

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Our principals and advisors have led sell-side processes, capital raises, and restructurings ranging from founder-owned businesses to multi-billion-dollar enterprises.

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Perspectives

The latest from the research library.

New research most weeks. Each piece dates its figures, names its sources, and says where the evidence is thin.

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As of October 2026

Two of the largest US advisers booked a fifth more in merger fees this quarter, and the queue of deals behind them got shorter.

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan each lifted advisory fees about a fifth from the second quarter while equity underwriting fell 32 percent at both. Goldman's fee backlog shrank. For an owner planning a 2027 sale, the fees describe the spring; the backlog describes the queue.

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As of October 2026

The buyer that pays in its own shares pays a smaller premium, and the market reprices those shares the day the deal is announced.

In the first half of 2026 the median premium paid in US public deals was 34 percent when the buyer paid cash and 9 percent when it paid only in shares. Cash-and-stock mixes rose to 40 percent of deals. For a private seller offered paper, the study says what that paper costs.

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As of October 2026

Global M&A fell below a trillion dollars in the quarter the ten-year yield passed 5 percent.

Global M&A totalled $993 billion in the third quarter, down 41 percent on the second, on LSEG data reported by Reuters on 2 October. Over the same three months the ten-year Treasury yield rose from 4.44 to 5.29 percent. The two share a quarter. Whether one caused the other is a separate question.