Equity Placement

For a variety of reasons, business owners occasionally need to raise equity. Reasons include financing an acquisition of a company, financing a new product line, buying out a partner, increasing working capital, shoring up the balance sheet, and reducing leverage.

Raising equity capital can be very difficult, but not impossible. With over 1,050 venture firms and over 1,200 buyout firms looking to back dynamic growth companies, equity is becoming increasingly available to smaller middle market companies. Generally rapidly growing companies with lots of upside have the best chance of raising equity capital, although special situations or profitable companies in fragmented industries may also be attractive.