E.L.K. CAPITAL ADVISORS, LLC
Founded in 2005, E.L.K. Capital Advisors is a Chicago-based registered broker-dealer specializing in debt and equity capital raising, institutional fund placement and M&A advisory services.
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- Privately held businesses / transaction sponsors
- Senior, mezzanine and structured debt securities
- Minority and control equity structures; joint ventures
- Leveraged recapitalizations
- Late-stage VC, Growth Capital, LBO and Acquisition Financing
- Proven ability to secure optimal capital partners
- PE, Private Credit, VC, Real Estate managers
- Managers seeking institutional LP capital
- Spin-out teams from PE firms and family offices
- Multi-LP fund raises; single-LP MSAs/JVs; club deals
- Managers seeking new platforms and commitments
- Select fund of funds strategies and co-investments
- Objective, aligned and highly experienced advice
- Buy-side, sell-side and recapitalization transactions
- Sale of asset pools, secondary LP interests
- Targeted financial and strategic investor/buyer relationships
- The Principals are making the buyer calls, in most cases to longstanding relationships
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A Powerful — Yet Flexible — Execution Model
- Reputation for integrity and fair dealing
- Objective, aligned and highly experienced advice
- Principals do not delegate critical tasks
- We will NOT engage unless we have high conviction and relevant expertise
- Flexible engagement terms
Our Clients and Investors
- Client relationships are typically cultivated over many years where we have been engaged in serial transactions.
- Clients are almost always referred in, often by multiple parties, and highly referenced; cold calls are rarely pursued.
- We often invest in our clients, offer flexible fee arrangements, and asked to sit on Boards and/or remain an active advisor to the client.
- We maintain hundreds of core investor/buyer relationships often stretching over 20 years.
- Investors engage with E.L.K. in part due to our history of ethical dealing and working with high quality client opportunities.
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