The firm’s Equity Capital Markets group oversees the firm’s activities in the new issue equity and equity-linked securities markets. Our role encompasses origination, execution and after-market services, and our focus is solely on delivering superior investment ideas, creative strategies, exceptional market intelligence and outstanding execution to our clients.

Our capabilities include:

• Initial public offerings
• Follow-on offerings
• Non-Deal Roadshows
• Private investment in public equity (PIPEs)
• Private Placements

CastleOak combines the M&A transaction experience and industry knowledge of large investment bank with the focus, dedication, and senior-level high touch of a boutique advisory firm. Our M&A bankers focus exclusively on middle market transactions valued below $1 billion. By leveraging CastleOak’s deeply established relationships with Fortune 500 companies, our M&A bankers have been selected to advise major corporate sellers on the divestiture of non-core assets and underperforming units. CastleOak’s insights and advice drive successful outcomes and help our clients achieve important strategic objectives.    

Our M&A Advisory services include:

• Acquisitions, mergers and divestitures
• Core vs. non-core asset evaluation
• Capital raising for acquisitions
• Leveraged recapitalizations
• Take-private transactions
• Strategic alternatives evaluation
• Business valuations/Fairness opinions

Collectively, CastleOak’s M&A Advisory team has successfully executed over $79 billion of completed transactions both on the buy-side and the sell-side. On each of our M&A engagements, CastleOak delivers a wealth of transaction experience and due diligence capabilities across an array of different industries and transaction types. Within the past decade, the CastleOak team has successfully completed M&A transactions in the following industries: Information Technology, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Consumer Products and Retail, Industrial, and Financial Services.

Our repurchase desk recognizes that our corporate repurchase programs have many objectives which need to be realized while being compliant with 10B-18 and 10B5-1 SEC rules. Our high level execution, clean clearing and payment has allowed CastleOak to be involved in multiple rotations from blue chip issuers. Every rotation commands the focus of our senior experienced traders who judiciously leverage their extensive trading acumen and top-notch algorithms to deliver unrivaled execution.