The Capital Corporation
The Capital Corporation states that it has served middle-market companies since 1991 and offers sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, and financial advisory services. Its public materials describe a proprietary 72-step sell-side process, coverage across more than 40 industries and segments, and transaction experience spanning North America and international markets.
What stands out about The Capital Corporation
The Capital Corporation publicly positions itself as a middle-market and lower-middle-market investment banking and M&A advisor. Its stated services include sell-side and buy-side advisory, capital raising involving senior debt, mezzanine debt, and equity, and a proprietary 72-step sell-side process. The cited official industries and services pages do not state a universal financial-size threshold, and the cited official sell-side page does not publish a standard engagement-fee schedule.[1][2][3][4][5][8][12]
What does The Capital Corporation do?
The Capital Corporation is a Greenville, South Carolina-based investment banking firm that states it has served middle-market companies since 1991. Its public offering includes sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, and financial advisory services for middle-market companies.[1][2]
The firm publicly offers sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, and financial advisory services. Its financial advisory offering includes raising senior debt, mezzanine debt, and equity capital for growth, refinancing, recapitalization, and acquisitions.[2][3]
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 The Capital Corporation?
For an owner evaluating a sale advisor, the disclosed offering includes a stated sell-side process, coverage across more than 40 industries and segments, and transaction experience involving North American and foreign buyers and sellers. The public examples provide specific transaction references, but the official past-transactions page does not itself provide a dated, named transaction list with values, buyer identities, or consideration terms.
Owners should clarify the firm’s applicable financial and transaction-size parameters, the legal entity that would contract for the engagement, proposed engagement economics and termination provisions, comparable completed transactions, buyer-screening practices, and any conflicts or affiliated relationships.[2][4][5][7][8]
Which legal entity will contract with the seller and provide the advisory services
What are the proposed retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions
What size transactions and clients does The Capital Corporation focus on?
The Capital Corporation states that it specializes in more than 40 industries and segments and customizes deal teams to the client’s industry. Its founder page identifies experience in finance, health care, manufacturing, service, home décor, restaurants, transportation, and waste industries, among others.[5][6]
CC Capital Advisors states that it advised Hohenschild Welders Supply in a sell-side process that resulted in a sale to Meritus Gas Partners, with management and employees retained. A Country Club Bank publication featuring CC Capital Advisors describes the acquisition of Wellington and identifies the firm as assisting the business owner with the middle-market transaction. A testimonial on The Capital Corporation’s website states that the firm identified, negotiated, structured, and closed a Jive Staffing acquisition within 45 days of being tasked.
The cited official past-transactions page describes numerous transactions but does not itself publish named deal examples, transaction dates, transaction values, buyer identities, or consideration terms.[1][8][9][10]
The firm’s stated transaction focus includes sell-side and buy-side advisory, acquisitions, sales, financing transactions, and capital raising. Its official past-transactions page describes work involving North American and foreign buyers and sellers.[2][3][8]
What does The Capital Corporation publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The cited official industries page does not state a universal revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or transaction-size threshold for the lower-middle-market companies it serves. The cited official services page does not publish a universal minimum transaction size or financial eligibility threshold for prospective advisory clients.
The cited official sell-side page does not publish a standard retainer, success-fee percentage, minimum fee, termination provision, or tail-period schedule. The cited official past-transactions page does not itself publish transaction dates, values, buyer identities, or consideration terms.[2][4][5][8]
Country Club Bank states that Country Club Financial Services, Inc. dba The Capital Corporation is a subsidiary of Country Club Bank and a member of FINRA and SIPC. A SEC IAPD record for Country Club Financial Services, Inc. lists CC Capital Advisors, Inc. and related names and shows SEC investment-adviser registration terminated on December 11, 2018. That record concerns the identified Country Club Financial Services, Inc. legal-entity record and does not by itself establish the regulatory status of every The Capital Corporation activity.[11][12]
The Capital Corporation states that it uses a proprietary 72-step sell-side process. The firm also states that this process has produced a top-decile closing-rate claim among U.S. investment banks.[4]
Questions to ask before hiring The Capital Corporation
What revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or transaction-size ranges does the firm normally accept?
Which legal entity will contract with the seller and provide the advisory services?
What are the proposed retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions?
Which recent transactions are comparable by sector, size, geography, and ownership objective?
How are strategic buyers, financial sponsors, and international buyers screened and approached?
What conflicts, affiliated-bank relationships, or financing arrangements should be considered?
Sources & research notes
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