PBG CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC

What does PBG CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC do?

PBG Capital Advisors LLC states that it is a boutique investment bank headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, with an office at 2000 PGA Blvd, Suite 4440. The firm identifies Judd Appel as Co-Founder & Managing Director — M&A and Adam Wilson as Co-Founder & Managing Director — Tax & Advisory.

PBG describes its target clients as middle-market businesses and presents a CPA-led advisory model. Its website states that every client engagement is led personally by one of the two founders and is not handed off to junior staff.[1]

Publicly stated services include sell-side M&A advisory, buy-side M&A advisory, capital raises, transaction readiness, and tax structure advisory.

For sell-side engagements, the firm lists business valuation and EBITDA normalization, Confidential Information Memorandum preparation, buyer identification and outreach, management presentations, LOI negotiation, and due diligence management through closing. Its buy-side services include acquisition strategy and criteria, proprietary target sourcing, Quality of Earnings review, deal structuring and tax analysis, purchase-agreement support, and integration planning.

The firm also states that it provides growth equity and minority recapitalizations, senior and subordinated debt placement, mezzanine financing, ESOP advisory, and investor-materials and outreach support. Its transaction-readiness preparation is described as beginning 12–24 months before going to market and includes financial statement cleanup, working-capital optimization, management-presentation coaching, and data-room preparation.[1]

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 PBG CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC?

An owner evaluating PBG can assess a publicly stated sell-side process that includes valuation, EBITDA normalization, CIM preparation, buyer outreach, LOI negotiation, and diligence management. The firm also describes CPA-led tax and transaction-structuring capabilities, including tax analysis, deal structuring, working-capital considerations, and transaction-readiness preparation.

The public materials support asking the firm to distinguish work completed by PBG Capital Advisors LLC from work completed by the principals at prior firms. An owner may also wish to confirm the executing broker-dealer’s legal identity and CRD number, current firm-level closing history, buyer coverage, fee and expense provisions, and the firm’s engagement parameters. The cited official firm page does not publish the broker-dealer identity or fee terms, and the cited materials do not establish current firm-level closing history.[1][3]

What size transactions and clients does PBG CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC focus on?

PBG Capital Advisors identifies six core sectors: Industrials; Consumer Products; Healthcare; Technology; Business Services; and Transportation & Logistics.

Examples named in its materials include manufacturing, specialty contracting, engineered products, distribution, infrastructure services, branded consumer goods, food and beverage, medical practices, SaaS, IT managed services, staffing, professional services, trucking, freight brokerage, and logistics technology.[1]

The official track-record section identifies representative examples including:

• a $40M-sales architectural firm sold to a private-equity buyer;
• a $1.2B-sales used-car retailer sold to a private-equity firm;
• a $60M-sales mechanical contractor;
• a $110M-revenue rail-car-products acquisition from a German-based private-equity owner;
• a $310M-revenue automotive-components transaction; and
• a $40M-revenue HVAC-controls transaction.

The official track-record section states that these examples were completed by the principals over their careers, including engagements at prior firms, and identifies them as illustrative. It does not provide transaction dates, client-company names, buyer names, or consideration terms for the listed examples.[1]

The firm publicly describes both sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory. Its stated transaction-related services also include capital raises, growth equity and minority recapitalizations, senior and subordinated debt placement, mezzanine financing, ESOP advisory, and transaction-readiness preparation.

Its public sell-side process includes blind teaser outreach, NDA execution, CIM distribution, buyer questions and answers, management meetings, and first-round indication-of-interest collection and analysis.[1]

What does PBG CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?

The cited official firm page identifies size, sector, geography, EBITDA range, deal-structure preferences, and platform-versus-add-on considerations as buy-side criteria inputs but does not publish numeric thresholds for those criteria. The same page describes global deal pedigree and international transaction experience but does not state a formal geographic coverage mandate for client engagements.

The cited official track-record section does not provide transaction dates, client-company names, buyer names, or consideration terms for the listed examples and states that the examples include engagements at prior firms. The cited official firm page also does not publish advisory fee percentages, minimum fees, expense schedules, tail periods, exclusivity terms, termination provisions, or the legal name and CRD number of the registered broker-dealer through which it states securities transactions are conducted.[1]

PBG’s website states that securities transactions are conducted through a registered broker-dealer and that the website is Member FINRA / SIPC. The website also lists FINRA Series 7 and Series 79 credentials for the founders.

A FINRA BrokerCheck report identifies Judd Appel by CRD #7223793 and states that he is not currently registered, with prior registration history shown in the report. That individual-level record does not establish the firm’s broker-dealer registration status. The cited official firm page does not identify the legal name or CRD number of the registered broker-dealer through which it states securities transactions are conducted.[1][2]

PBG describes a competitive sell-side process involving blind teaser outreach, NDA execution, CIM distribution, buyer Q&A, management meetings, and first-round IOI collection and analysis. The firm states that every client engagement is led personally by one of its two founders and is not handed off to junior staff.

The firm’s transaction-readiness offering is described as beginning 12–24 months before going to market and includes financial statement cleanup, working-capital optimization, management-presentation coaching, and data-room preparation.[1]

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