Private Equity
Caris & Company's Private Equity Group specializes in raising capital for emerging, small-cap and middle-market private companies through the sale of equity securities by utilizing our extensive contacts with institutional and strategic investors.
Our investment bankers invest significantly in building and maintaining active relationships with private equity, venture capital, and strategic investors within our focus industries where we are recognized for our ability to closely match issuers with investors.
We advise and act as agents in private equity transactions by representing:
- Middle-market private companies seeking capital for growth, strategic acquisition, recapitalization and/or shareholder liquidity.
- Management teams seeking capital to acquire a private company or take a public company private in management-led buyouts.
- Small-cap companies seeking capital for growth or strategic acquisition.
- Emerging or early-stage companies seeking capital for rapid growth.
We leverage our extensive knowledge of the private equity capital raising process and market to provide our clients with strategic guidance and professional advice regarding capital formation and structure, timing, securities valuation, pricing and terms.
Our full range of private equity services include:
- Preparing marketing materials and offering memorandums designed specifically for the private equity marketplace.
- Developing business and securities valuations and pricing strategies.
- Identifying and initiating dialogue with the best-suited and most-likely investors without resorting to a "shotgun" approach that only serves to "over-shop" an offering.
- Negotiating and structuring term sheets on behalf of our clients.
In addition to representing corporate issuers, we also act as agents for various institutional investors seeking companies matching a specific set of business and financial criteria for equity investment.