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  • M&A Advisory
    As a trusted M&A advisor, we represent buyers and sellers in the sale and acquisition of businesses. We offer tailored solutions to maximize success.
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  • Capital Markets
    Our Capital Markets group offers customized financing solutions across private and public markets, specializing in debt, equity, and hybrid securities.
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  • Strategic Alternative Assessments
    When action is uncertain, we help business owners evaluate opportunities, competitive landscapes, financial strategy consulting, and succession plans.
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  • Special Situations & Distressed M&A
    When facing liquidity challenges, our Special Situations Advisory team acts swiftly to preserve flexibility, maximize alternatives, and protect value.
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  • ESOP Investment Banking
    Our ESOP Advisory team offers a complete suite of advisory services and capital markets solutions to privately held and ESOP-owned companies.
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Investment Banking

Decades of dealmaking experience. Deep industry insight. Unparalleled service.

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For more than 25 years, middle market companies have relied on Stout for our deep industry knowledge, patient guidance, and unparalleled service through every step of a financial transaction.

Our industry focused bankers provide a full range of strategic alternatives including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advice, private capital raising, and other financial advisory services to family-owned businesses, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, divisions of large corporations, and secured and unsecured creditors of middle market debtors. Our depth of experience in sales or mergers, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and ESOP formations allows us to provide thoughtful strategic advice to a broad range of clients across our core industry groups.

Stout is committed to developing and nurturing productive, long-term relationships with leading middle market private equity firms. Learn more about our Financial Sponsor Coverage team.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS

Our depth of experience in sales or mergers, management buyouts, recapitalizations, ESOP formations, and corporate restructuring allows us to provide thoughtful strategic advice to a broad range of clients across our core industry groups. Select an industry to learn more about our expertise.

The Stout Industrials team leverages deep and extensive sector expertise and strong relationships to deliver exceptional advisory services across the industrial landscape. With direct access to top executives and financial sponsors, our dedicated global coverage ensures execution excellence at every step of a transaction.

Our highly experienced deal teams possess a deep understanding of sector complexities and buyer behaviors, enabling us to execute transactions seamlessly.

We have specialized expertise in these sectors: Aerospace & Defense, Auto & Transportation Technologies, Building Products, Diversified Industrials, Industrial Technology, Metals & Specialty Manufacturing, Packaging, and Plastics.

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Stout offers specialized coverage in business services, leveraging deep expertise. Our team brings over two decades of experience, providing comprehensive financial advisory services, including M&A, capital raising, and strategic planning.

Our dedicated bankers understand the unique challenges and opportunities within business services and are committed to delivering customized solutions that meet your strategic objectives.

With a seasoned team of senior bankers, Stout capitalizes on strategic industry relationships and essential institutional knowledge. Stout is positioned as a leader in delivering tailored solutions for our clients.

We have specialized expertise in these sectors: Commercial Services, Distribution, Engineering & Construction, Environmental Services, Professional Services, and Transportation & Logistics.

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Stout stands as a leader in investment banking for professional services. Our team delivers expert M&A advice, capital raising, and financial strategies to meet the nuanced needs of professional service firms.

Leveraging deep industry knowledge and extensive experience, we ensure premium outcomes for clients across key sectors: defense and government services, technology enabled services, managed services, management consulting, engineering consulting, human capital management, and marketing and communication services.

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Stout’s Healthcare team has a track record of success supported by decades of transaction experience and industry relationships. We offer sell-side and buy-side M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory services tailored for healthcare complexities.

Stout Healthcare has a sector focus within life sciences (diagnostics, lab supplies & equipment, medical devices & products, and outsourced pharmaceutical service & technology) and healthcare services (provider services & multi-site, post-acute & home health, managed care & payer services, healthcare IT, and ancillary & outsourced services). We understand the regulatory, reimbursement, and operational challenges healthcare clients face and are dedicated to delivering tailored solutions and outlier outcomes.

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Stout is well-versed in the numerous sectors that comprise the consumer industry. Evolving consumer preferences, the rise of e-commerce channels, continued commodity input exposure, and a global economy have created opportunities and challenges.

Our clients include companies with operations throughout the supply chain, including processing, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and retailing. End markets served by our clients consist of the sale of both branded and private-label consumer products on a regional, national, and international basis.

We have specialized expertise in these sectors: Apparel, Footwear & Accessories, Consumer Products, Consumer Services, Food & Beverage, Household & Personal Care, and Retail, Restaurants & E-commerce.

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Stout experts have a deep understanding of the global economic drivers impacting the industrials sector and have played a critical role in helping these companies navigate complex challenges and achieve long-term success.

We are leaders in providing a wide range of strategic and financial advisory services to the industrials sector, including investment banking, transaction advisory, accounting and reporting, valuation, and dispute-related services.

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