NCP, Inc.
NCP, Inc. is a relationship-driven investment bank formed in 2005 that specializes in mergers and acquisitions, capital advisory, and direct investments for middle-market companies. Its listed office is in Des Moines, Iowa, and it states that it works with clients across North America.
What stands out about NCP, Inc.
NCP, Inc. combines sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory with capital solutions and direct investment. It identifies infrastructure and healthcare, food and agriculture, and business services as specialties, while its direct-investment offering is described as industry-agnostic for established, profitable enterprises. Owners evaluating the firm should clarify engagement terms, regulatory structure, source of capital, and ownership expectations.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
What does NCP, Inc. do?
NCP, Inc. is a relationship-driven investment bank formed in 2005. The firm states that it specializes in mergers and acquisitions, capital advisory, and direct investments for middle-market companies. Its current listed office is at 321 E Walnut, Suite 200, Des Moines, Iowa 50309.[1][2]
NCP provides sell-side M&A support that may include valuation analysis, offering materials, buyer identification, deal structuring, due-diligence coordination, transaction management, negotiation, and integration support. It assists owners with majority or minority sales.
Its buy-side offering includes acquisition-strategy development, inbound and outbound sourcing, partnership opportunities, joint ventures, acquisitions, and transaction execution through closing. Capital-solutions services include succession planning, direct investment, strategic corporate-finance advisory, recapitalizations, business valuations, debt-management and planning, refinancing, add-on debt facilities, covenant management, and liquidity planning.[3][4][5]
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.
Published criteria: NCP describes its investment-banking focus as middle-market and states that its services are directed toward privately held businesses. For direct investments, it states that typical investments range from $3 million to $15 million and focus on established, profitable enterprises.[1]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring NCP, Inc.?
For an owner considering a sale, NCP’s stated capabilities include majority and minority transactions, valuation, buyer identification, transaction structuring, diligence coordination, negotiation, and integration support. The firm’s stated sector specialties and middle-market, privately held-business focus may be relevant to an owner’s evaluation.
Owners should clarify the minimum and typical enterprise-value range for a mandate, the contracting entity and applicable regulatory or legal structure, fee and expense provisions, exclusivity and tail terms, and whether NCP or an affiliated participant would provide capital. For direct investments or recapitalizations, owners should also establish the proposed ownership percentage, governance rights, rollover equity, financing structure, and expected ownership duration.[1][2][3][5][7]
Which professionals or entities would contract with the client, and what regulatory or legal structure applies to the engagement
Does NCP or an affiliated participant invest its own capital, third-party capital, or both
What size transactions and clients does NCP, Inc. focus on?
NCP identifies infrastructure and healthcare, food and agriculture, and business services—including specialized companies supporting those industries—as its specialties. Separately, the firm describes its direct investments as industry-agnostic and focused on established, profitable enterprises.[2][5]
NCP’s representative-transactions archive lists engagements including Vannguard & Trivest; University of Iowa Health Care & Mission + Cancer; Pritchard & Harrison Ford of Clear Lake; Rasmussen Group & Johnson Holding Company: Ideal Ready Mix & L&W Quarries; Wright Service Corp & Impact7G; Merchants Bonding Group & Foundation Surety & Insurance Solutions; John Deere & GUSS; Wright Service Corp & Transcon; and Cablevey & May River Capital.
The archive classifies listed engagements as sell-side advisor, buy-side advisor, or capital advisor assignments.[6]
The firm’s stated transaction work includes majority and minority sales, acquisitions, joint ventures, recapitalizations, succession situations, and capital solutions. Its direct-investment offering states that typical investments range from $3 million to $15 million.[3][4][5]
What does NCP, Inc. publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The representative-transactions page names engagements and advisor roles but does not publish transaction dates, enterprise values, purchase prices, financing terms, fee arrangements, or complete transaction counterparties for each listed example.
The cited sell-side M&A page does not publish a universal fee schedule, minimum engagement size, or standard success-fee, exclusivity, or tail terms. The cited capital-solutions page does not state an expected ownership duration or investment holding period for direct investments or recapitalization transactions.
The cited FINRA individual disclosure does not establish NCP, Inc.’s firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration status.[3][5][6][7]
An authoritative FINRA individual disclosure identifies NCP, Inc. as an employer and outside-business entity for Eric Lohmeier and describes NCP’s business as consulting involving M&A target analysis, valuation, joint-venture structure analysis, transaction-counterparty negotiation, third-party consultant coordination, strategic business planning, and valuation analysis.
That individual disclosure does not establish NCP, Inc.’s firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration status.[7]
NCP states that it acts as an independent sounding board for clients and provides financial, operational, and strategic guidance throughout the engagement. Its sell-side description identifies valuation analysis, offering materials, buyer identification, deal structuring, diligence coordination, transaction management, negotiation, and integration support.[2][3]
Questions to ask before hiring NCP, Inc.
What is the minimum and typical enterprise-value range for sell-side and buy-side mandates?
Which professionals or entities would contract with the client, and what regulatory or legal structure applies to the engagement?
Does NCP or an affiliated participant invest its own capital, third-party capital, or both?
What are the fee, retainer, success-fee, expense, exclusivity, and tail provisions?
For direct investments or recapitalizations, what ownership percentage, governance rights, rollover equity, financing structure, and expected ownership duration are typical?
Can NCP provide dated, closed transaction references and disclose representative valuation or consideration ranges under confidentiality limits?
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