Financial Sponsors Group
Stephens’ Financial Sponsors Group builds long-term relationships with private equity firms through a highly targeted, high touch coverage effort. Stephens dedicated professionals are in regular communication with our coverage universe and provide relevant market intelligence to facilitate our building value-added partnerships with a select number of sponsors, who gain access to our proprietary ideas and deal flow. Furthermore, we coordinate communication with our industry-focused bankers who possess in-depth knowledge of their respective industry groups’ dynamics and participants. In addition, this group serves to coordinate relevant deal flow opportunities for private equity firms interested in participating in Stephens’ sell-side and private placement transactions.
Stephens unique combination of transaction experience and industry expertise allows us to provide the private equity community with a comprehensive array of strategic advisory and execution capabilities, including buyside and sell side advisory services. Our resume of large, complex M&A transactions enhances Stephens’ ability to provide middle market focused sponsors with experience and resources typically available only to the country’s largest private equity firms. Furthermore, our capital markets expertise in issuing equity and equity-related securities for both public and private companies expands a sponsor’s liquidity alternatives, including IPO’s and follow-on’s as well as private placements (growth equity, recapitalizations, etc.)
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