Chatsworth Advisors
Chatsworth Securities LLC, the firm identified in public materials associated with Chatsworth Advisors, is a boutique investment bank founded in 1996 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Its stated services include M&A advisory, private placements, rights offerings, and cross-border strategic transactions for institutional clients and qualified investors.
What stands out about Chatsworth Advisors
Chatsworth publicly describes a senior-led advisory model covering founder and shareholder exits, strategic sales, sponsor-owned business exits, buy-side acquisitions, recapitalizations, private placements, and cross-border transactions. Its cited representative transactions include RoweCom/divine, Pi Cash Système/Givex, and Xign/JPMorgan; the official M&A page does not publish transaction dates, consideration amounts, or fee and tail terms for those examples.[1][2][4]
What does Chatsworth Advisors do?
Chatsworth Securities LLC is identified by its official website as a boutique investment bank headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded in 1996, and advising companies, boards, sponsors, and institutional investors.
The firm states that it works exclusively with institutional clients and qualified investors. Its publicly stated advisory scope includes mergers and acquisitions, rights offerings, private placements, and cross-border strategic transactions.[1]
Chatsworth publicly states that it advises on mergers and acquisitions, rights offerings, private placements, and cross-border strategic transactions.
Its external corporate-development offering includes acquisition screening, target evaluation, strategic alternatives, board preparation, capital strategy, diligence coordination, and transaction execution.[1][9]
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.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Chatsworth Advisors?
An owner evaluating Chatsworth can ask how the proposed senior team would handle assessment, valuation positioning, buyer targeting, negotiation, diligence coordination, and execution. The firm’s stated M&A scope includes founder or shareholder exits, strategic sales, sponsor-owned business exits, and cross-border sale processes.
Before engagement, an owner should verify recent closed transactions in the relevant industry, geography, revenue range, and transaction type; identify the senior banker responsible for the mandate; clarify the intended buyer or sponsor outreach and conflicts process; and review fee, expense, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions. The official M&A page does not publish fee schedules, minimum fees, termination fees, or tail-period terms for its three named representative examples.[2]
Which senior banker would lead the mandate from preparation through close
What are the firm's most recent closed transactions in the owner's exact industry, geography, revenue range, and transaction type
What size transactions and clients does Chatsworth Advisors focus on?
The official team page identifies experience across technology, applied AI, energy transition, real assets, financial services, and institutional sectors.[3]
The official M&A page identifies Chatsworth as financial advisor to RoweCom in its merger with divine, including delivery of a fairness opinion to the board. It also identifies Chatsworth as advisor on the sale of Pi Cash Système, a Swiss payments and point-of-sale technology provider, to Givex, and as representative of Xign in its sale to JPMorgan.
Separate official announcements identify an advisory engagement with Riddec for capital raising and global scaling on March 10, 2025; an engagement as strategic advisor to Life Biosciences to support capital raising on June 1, 2025; and an advisory engagement with INSILICO for capital raising and strategic advisory on February 1, 2026.[2][5][6][7]
The M&A practice covers founder or shareholder exits, strategic sales, sponsor-owned business exits, buy-side acquisitions, recapitalizations, and cross-border sale processes.
The firm also states that it advises on rights offerings, private placements, and cross-border strategic transactions.[1][2]
What does Chatsworth Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official M&A page does not publish transaction dates, consideration amounts, fee schedules, minimum fees, termination fees, or tail-period terms for the RoweCom/divine, Pi Cash Système/Givex, and Xign/JPMorgan examples.[2]
FINRA’s current firm-level BrokerCheck report states that Chatsworth Securities LLC is registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer, with SEC registration effective November 15, 1996. The report also states that Chatsworth Securities LLC is a FINRA member, with FINRA registration effective on the same date.
FINRA lists investment advisory services and private placements of securities among the firm’s current types of business.[8]
Chatsworth describes its M&A approach as senior-led process design involving assessment, valuation positioning, transaction preparation, buyer targeting, negotiation, diligence coordination, and closing execution.
Its external corporate-development offering also includes acquisition screening, target evaluation, strategic alternatives, board preparation, capital strategy, diligence coordination, and transaction execution.[2][9]
Questions to ask before hiring Chatsworth Advisors
Which senior banker would lead the mandate from preparation through close?
What are the firm's most recent closed transactions in the owner's exact industry, geography, revenue range, and transaction type?
Which named buyers or sponsors would be approached, and how would conflicts be handled?
What are the engagement fee, retainer, success fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions?
How does the firm distinguish a closed transaction from an advisory or capital-raising engagement in its track record?
What securities, placement, and cross-border regulatory responsibilities would be handled by Chatsworth Securities LLC versus outside counsel or local advisers?
Sources & research notes
- Official website / firm overview
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