Stonington Capital Advisors
Stonington Capital Advisors, LLC is a boutique placement agent with offices in New York and Short Hills, New Jersey. Its stated services include private-equity fund placement, secondary advisory, and direct private placements.
What stands out about Stonington Capital Advisors
Stonington Capital Advisors focuses on capital raising and related advisory work, including private-equity fund placement, secondary trades, continuation vehicles, and direct private placements for independent sponsors and managers between funds.[1][2][3][4]
What does Stonington Capital Advisors do?
Stonington Capital Advisors, LLC is a boutique placement agent with offices in New York and Short Hills, New Jersey. The firm provides private-equity fund placement, secondary advisory, and direct private placement services.[1][2]
Stonington states that it provides private-equity fund placement, secondary advisory, and direct private placement services. Its secondary advisory practice includes brokering secondary trades starting at $5 million and advising on continuation vehicles. Its direct private placement services support independent sponsors and managers between funds, including capital support for roll-up strategies.[2][3]
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Published criteria: Stonington states that it focuses on sub-$1 billion private funds and identifies typical clients as $200-$750 million private-equity firms. It also states that it brokers secondary trades starting at $5 million.[1][3]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Stonington Capital Advisors?
Owners and sponsors should first clarify whether the proposed mandate concerns fund placement, a direct private placement, a secondary transaction, a continuation vehicle, or another capital-raising objective. They should also confirm which legal entity will contract with the client and perform any placement or broker-dealer activity, identify the investor categories and jurisdictions to be approached, and request current named references for comparable mandates.
Commercial terms should be confirmed directly because the official services page does not publish a universal placement-fee percentage, minimum fee, expense schedule, exclusivity term, termination provision, or tail period.[1][2][3][5]
Which legal entity will contract with the client and perform any placement or broker-dealer activity
What current named transactions are comparable by sector, geography, capital need, and size
What size transactions and clients does Stonington Capital Advisors focus on?
Stonington states that it advises funds focused on buyout, credit, distressed, venture capital, real estate, and non-correlated assets.[1]
The firm’s 2018 newsletter describes representative mandates involving a $175 million third-generation West Coast U.S.-based growth-equity fund, a $400 million South Central U.S.-based distressed special-opportunities fund, and a $200 million sixth-generation Northeast U.S.-based healthcare growth-equity fund.
The same newsletter discloses capital-raising mandates for an automotive-distribution acquisition and a specialist-medical-clinic roll-up, as well as a proposed acquisition of three Midwest manufacturing businesses. It also describes a proposed acquisition of four U.K. distressed businesses in a secondary transaction and growth capital for a biotherapeutics company with a recent $25 million NIH grant.[4]
The firm’s stated transaction focus includes fund placement, secondary trades, continuation vehicles, direct private placements, independent-sponsor capital, and roll-up strategies.[2][3]
What does Stonington Capital Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official 2018 representative-mandates page does not identify most counterparties, buyers, closing dates, transaction values, or consideration terms for the listed mandates.
The official services page does not publish a universal placement-fee percentage, minimum fee, expense schedule, exclusivity term, termination provision, or tail period.[3][4]
Stonington’s website states that Dan Rudgers holds FINRA Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses through Stonington Drive Securities LLC. An SEC Form D identifies Stonington Capital Advisors, LLC as a recipient and Stonington Drive Securities LLC as the associated broker or dealer with CRD number 287876 in the offering filing.[1][5]
Publicly stated service descriptions indicate that Stonington works across fund placement, secondary advisory, and direct private placement mandates. The firm also describes advice on continuation vehicles and capital support for independent-sponsor and roll-up strategies.[2][3]
Questions to ask before hiring Stonington Capital Advisors
Which legal entity will contract with the client and perform any placement or broker-dealer activity?
Is the proposed mandate a fund placement, direct private placement, secondary transaction, continuation vehicle, or another capital-raising assignment?
What current named transactions are comparable by sector, geography, capital need, and size?
Which investor categories and jurisdictions will be contacted for the proposed assignment?
What placement fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions would apply?
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