Stanton Park Advisors
Stanton Park Advisors is identified on the current Stanton Park Capital website as an advisory practice serving entrepreneur-led and family-owned businesses, with a stated revenue focus of $5 Million to $100-Plus Million. Its public services include M&A advisory, capital advisory, valuations, and opinions.
What stands out about Stanton Park Advisors
Stanton Park Advisors publicly describes a sell-side-oriented M&A process that includes buyer identification, customized positioning, confidential outreach, buyer qualification, negotiation, due diligence coordination, and closing support. The current website identifies Stanton Park Capital, LLC, with locations in Boston and Menlo Park, while the experience page uses the Stanton Park Advisors name.[1][2][3][4]
What does Stanton Park Advisors do?
Stanton Park Advisors is the advisory practice named on the official experience page of Stanton Park Capital. The current official website identifies the business as Stanton Park Capital, LLC, with locations in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California.
The firm publicly offers M&A advisory, capital advisory, and valuations and opinions services. It states that its professionals have advised more than 1,000 businesses representing in excess of $10 billion in capital over the last 20 years.[1][2][3][4]
Stanton Park publicly lists M&A advisory, capital advisory, and valuations and opinions. Its valuation and advisory applications include fairness opinions, litigation, gift tax and estate planning, 409A compliance, mergers and acquisitions, partnership buyouts, intangible asset appraisal, purchase price allocations, economic damages assessment, and bankruptcy.
The firm also states that it works on a pay-for-performance basis.[3][4]
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: The firm publicly targets businesses with $5 Million to $100-Plus Million in revenue and states that it serves entrepreneur-led and family-owned businesses.[4]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Stanton Park Advisors?
For an owner considering a sale, Stanton Park publicly describes a process centered on buyer identification, customized positioning, confidential outreach, approved-buyer contact, buyer qualification, negotiation, due diligence coordination, and closing support. The stated revenue focus is $5 Million to $100-Plus Million, and the firm identifies entrepreneur-led and family-owned businesses among its target clients.
An owner may wish to verify which legal entity will contract, how fees and expenses are structured, which senior professionals will lead the engagement, how conflicts and buyer outreach are handled, and which representative engagements were completed recently. The official services page does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule, and the official home page does not provide dates or values for its named examples.[1][3][4]
Which legal entity will contract for the engagement, and which entity or broker-dealer will receive fees or offer securities
What is the exact fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, tail period, and termination rights
Which of the named engagements were completed recently, and what were their transaction dates, deal structures, valuation ranges, and buyer types
What size transactions and clients does Stanton Park Advisors focus on?
The firm identifies experience in technology, business services, manufacturing, consumer, and distribution. Current team biographies also identify experience across consumer and industrial products, healthcare and lifesciences, and technology and media.[1][2]
The official client-experience section identifies representative engagements involving Deckers Outdoor, Dubin Clark, Big Country Truck Accessories, Gemini Investors, Excelsior Capital Partners, Kinderhook Industries, Dicom Transportation Group and Wind Point Partners, Branford Castle, Lund International, LivHome and Bain Double Impact, Pouschine Cook Capital Management and Anchor Capital, and BEST Powder Coating and Sowell & Co.
The official home page does not state transaction dates, transaction values, consideration terms, or seller identities for those representative examples. Separately, Stanton Park Advisors, LLC consented to inclusion of a fairness opinion dated December 23, 2022, prepared for the board of Deep Medicine Acquisition Corp.[4][6]
Stanton Park describes a sell-side-oriented M&A process that includes buyer identification, customized positioning, confidential outreach, buyer qualification, negotiation, due diligence coordination, and closing support. The firm also publicly offers capital advisory and valuation and opinion services.
The official client-experience page identifies representative engagements, while an SEC filing documents a fairness-opinion engagement for Deep Medicine Acquisition Corp.[3][4][6]
What does Stanton Park Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official home page lists representative client-experience transaction names but does not state transaction dates, transaction values, consideration terms, or seller identities for those examples.
The official services page describes the M&A process but does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, tail period, or termination schedule. The official home page lists Boston and Menlo Park and states a worldwide client orientation, but it does not provide a detailed geographic transaction or revenue breakdown.[3][4]
The official website states that all members of Stanton Park Capital, LLC are registered representatives and that securities are offered through Stonehaven, LLC, a Member FINRA/SIPC. The website also links to FINRA BrokerCheck and regulatory disclosures.
The SEC filing identifies Stanton Park Advisors, LLC as the entity consenting to references to the Deep Medicine Acquisition Corp. fairness opinion. The official about page does not itself state a separate firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration number for Stanton Park Capital or Stanton Park Advisors.[1][6]
Stanton Park states that its M&A process is designed to maximize valuation potential, minimize owner time and distractions, and maximize certainty of close. It says the firm contacts only buyers and investors approved by the client and seeks a non-disclosure agreement before sharing approved information.[3]
Questions to ask before hiring Stanton Park Advisors
Which legal entity will contract for the engagement, and which entity or broker-dealer will receive fees or offer securities?
What is the exact fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, tail period, and termination rights?
Which of the named engagements were completed recently, and what were their transaction dates, deal structures, valuation ranges, and buyer types?
Which senior professionals will lead the process, and how many comparable transactions has the team completed in the company’s sector and revenue range?
How are conflicts, buyer outreach, confidentiality, and management retention handled?
Sources & research notes
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