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Bryant Park Capital

Founded in 1991, Bryant Park Capital provides mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity, and corporate strategic advisory services to middle-market clients. The firm states that its team has completed over 400 deals representing over $30 billion in transaction value.

Key takeaway

What stands out about Bryant Park Capital

Bryant Park Capital offers sell-side and buy-side M&A advice, capital-raising, structured finance, valuation, fairness-opinion, and special-situations services, with publicly identified expertise across financial services, litigation finance, healthcare, energy, commercial services, consumer, and technology-related sectors.[1][2][7][10]

What does Bryant Park Capital do?

Bryant Park Capital is an investment bank founded in 1991 that provides mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity, and corporate strategic advisory services to middle-market clients.

The firm states that its team has completed over 400 deals representing over $30 billion in transaction value.[1]

Bryant Park Capital provides capital-raising advisory services for public and private companies across debt, equity, structured finance, portfolio and asset sales, mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, valuations, fairness opinions, and special situations.

Its stated M&A services include sell-side and buy-side advisory, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, and spinoffs.[2]

Owners comparing advisory firms can also review Auxo’s M&A advisor vs. business broker vs. investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and sell-side advisor evaluation framework.

Public size / criteria information
Bryant Park Capital identifies itself as a middle-market adviser and states that its team has completed over 400 deals representing over $30 billion in transaction value. The official Our Firm page does not state a universal revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, transaction-size, or minimum-client-size threshold.[1]

What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Bryant Park Capital?

An owner evaluating Bryant Park Capital can examine its disclosed sell-side, buy-side, capital-raising, valuation, fairness-opinion, and special-situations capabilities alongside the firm’s sector and transaction examples. The published examples include specialty finance, litigation finance, equipment finance, securitization, and senior secured financing assignments.

Before engagement, the owner should clarify the firm’s current transaction-size parameters, comparable assignments, proposed buyer or financing-source universe, engagement entity, fee provisions, conflicts controls, and the scope of any brokerage or placement services.[1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9]

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Which disclosed transactions involve sectors, geographies, sizes, or ownership profiles similar to the company

BPC publicly identifies multiple sector practices and has disclosed assignments involving capital raising, an equipment-finance sale, securitization, and senior secured financing.[3][5][6][7][8][9]
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Will the engagement be with Bryant Park Capital LLC, Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc., or both

Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc. is separately identified as a broker-dealer providing the described brokerage services.[10][11]
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What are the retainer, success-fee, expense, termination, and tail provisions

The official Services page does not publish a standard advisory retainer, success-fee percentage, termination fee, tail-period schedule, or other universal engagement-fee schedule.[2]

What size transactions and clients does Bryant Park Capital focus on?

Bryant Park Capital publicly identifies expertise in litigation finance; specialty finance and financial services; healthcare; energy, cleantech and natural resources; business and commercial services; consumer and eCommerce; and technology, media and telecom.

Its litigation-finance practice covers consumer, commercial, and law-firm funding and states that it represents funders, law firms, and operating companies.[3][4]

  • BPC acted as exclusive financial adviser to RapidFunds/Modeso LLC on a $70 million term-loan facility consisting of a $40 million delayed-draw term loan and a $30 million accordion feature.
  • BPC acted as exclusive financial adviser to Legis Finance Ltd. on a $104.5 million capital-raise transaction.
  • BPC acted as exclusive financial adviser to Colford Capital Holdings LLC, the seller of North Mill Equipment Finance, LLC; the cited announcement states that the financial terms were not disclosed.
  • BPC acted as exclusive placement agent and financial adviser to Pawnee Leasing Corporation on a US$50 million non-recourse asset-backed facility with Capital One, N.A.
  • BPC acted as exclusive financial adviser to FoxPoint Trucks, LLC on a $30 million senior secured credit facility.
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The firm’s stated transaction capabilities include sell-side and buy-side M&A, LBOs and MBOs, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, spinoffs, debt and equity capital raising, structured finance, portfolio and asset sales, valuations, fairness opinions, and special-situations advisory.[2]

What does Bryant Park Capital publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?

The official Services page does not publish a standard advisory retainer, success-fee percentage, termination fee, tail-period schedule, or other universal engagement-fee schedule.

The official Form CRS states that private-placement commission amounts depend on the offering and does not state a universal commission percentage or minimum fee.

The official Our Firm page identifies BPC as a middle-market adviser but does not state a universal revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, transaction-size, or minimum-client-size threshold. The official North Mill Equipment Finance transaction announcement states that the financial terms of that sale were not disclosed.[1][2][7][10]

Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc. states in its Form CRS that it is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a broker-dealer and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. FINRA’s firm BrokerCheck report also identifies Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc. as currently registered with the SEC and FINRA as a broker-dealer.

The Form CRS describes the firm’s brokerage services as nondiscretionary and transaction-based, with no ongoing account monitoring and no account or investment-amount minimums for the described service.[10][11]

Bryant Park Capital states that it maintains relationships with strategic and financial buyers, banks, private-equity firms, hedge funds, and other sophisticated financial sources.[1]

Questions to ask before hiring Bryant Park Capital

Which disclosed transactions involve sectors, geographies, sizes, or ownership profiles similar to the company?
BPC publicly identifies multiple sector practices and has disclosed assignments involving capital raising, an equipment-finance sale, securitization, and senior secured financing.[3][5][6][7][8][9]
Will the engagement be with Bryant Park Capital LLC, Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc., or both?
Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc. is separately identified as a broker-dealer providing the described brokerage services.[10][11]
What are the retainer, success-fee, expense, termination, and tail provisions?
The official Services page does not publish a standard advisory retainer, success-fee percentage, termination fee, tail-period schedule, or other universal engagement-fee schedule.[2]
Which strategic, private-equity, credit, or other financing sources would likely be approached?
BPC states that it maintains relationships with strategic and financial buyers, banks, private-equity firms, hedge funds, and other sophisticated financial sources.[1]
How are conflicts handled where BPC or an affiliate has a brokerage, placement, valuation, merchant-banking, or other relationship with a prospective counterparty?
The firm describes both investment-banking advisory services and separate nondiscretionary, transaction-based brokerage services through Bryant Park Capital Securities, Inc.; the engagement structure and applicable relationships should therefore be clarified.[2][10]

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