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Jon Taylor, Managing Partner Ultimately, it is important for a firm to achieve a company valuation that doesn’t sell the business short. At the same time, it also shouldn’t overstate what a business is actually worth.
As easy as this sounds, finding the right balance between the two is tricky, and this is where having a partner like Stanton Park Capital can make all the difference. The Boston, MA-based firm provides high quality, results-oriented strategic and financial advisory services to growing businesses in the areas of business valuation, merger and acquisition, and capital raising. Jon Taylor, Stanton Park’s managing partner, says, “Prior to founding Stanton Park, I worked with several National Business valuation and investment banking firms. Eight years ago, I saw an opportunity to build a practice that is committed to serving companies in the tech community and work more directly with clients.” The organization currently caters to the technology, business services, manufacturing, consumer goods, and distribution sectors. Till date, Stanton Park’s professionals have completed more than 1,000 business valuation and merger & acquisition engagement and raised over two billion dollars in capital in the last two decades.
Many tangible and intangible factors influence the value of a business. By focusing on the factors that are important to potential buyers or investors, one can increase the chances of a successful sale and boost the value of the business. Stanton Park provides business valuation services that ensure everyone gets their fair share. “No matter the situation, our skilled and highly qualified team sorts through all of the assets clearly so that businesses have hard facts to work from moving forward. We strive to exceed all client expectations with our detail-oriented services,” explains Taylor.
Stanton Park’s professionals take a customized approach to understand each client’s needs and requirements.
For example, a common situation is a company looking at a potential transaction for their business—either a sale or a capital raise and need some guidance on moving forward with deal. In such situation, the firm begins by understanding all of the different factors involved in the process and take the time to educate the client on the strengths and weaknesses within their business. Via detailed questionnaires and some other frameworks, Stanton Park’s professionals collect necessary information about the business. “The key is to understand where their business stands today,” adds Taylor. Based on the responses, Stanton Park’s experts offer several different improvement options for clients to create more business value over time. “Once the decision is finalized, we give them a proposal, which they implement and move forward. We walk them through each step of the process and answer all of their questions,” avers Taylor.
No matter the situation, our skilled and highly qualified team sorts through all of the assets clearly so that businesses have hard facts to work from moving forward. We strive to exceed all client expectations with our detail-oriented services
The competency of Stanton Park’s extensive services can be best highlighted with a recent customer success story involving a large company with a good reputation. “The client came to us because they had a buyout offer from a much larger acquirer. However, the kind of the deal that was being structured was unfavourable to the client,” explains Taylor. Stanton Park is currently helping the client explore different possibilities. “They are definitely spending more time considering their options now and trying to negotiate from a position of strength rather than a scarcity mindset,” reveals Taylor.
Stanton Park’s mission is to guide organizations to achieve the maximum business value possible. In that quest, the firm is looking to expand its services to other sectors such as the business services and software. Alongside, they are also planning on doing more transactional work. “We have a lot of repeat clients that want us to help them with a transaction—whether it's raising capital or a potential sale of the business or employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). We will guide them along those lines by providing the best recommendations possible and help them implement it. We do over 100 valuations a year and going forward, we hope to continue the trend,” wraps up Taylor.
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Stanton Park Capital
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Jon Taylor, Managing Partner
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The Boston, MA-based Stanton Park provides high quality, results-oriented strategic and financial advisory services to growing businesses in the areas of business valuation, merger and acquisition, and capital raising. The organization currently caters to the technology, business services, manufacturing, consumer goods, and distribution sectors. Till date, Stanton Park’s professionals have completed more than 1,000 business valuation and merger & acquisition engagement and raised over two billion dollars in capital in the last two decades. Stanton Park provides business valuation services that ensure everyone gets their fair share
