Founded in 1997, Imperial Capital, LLC is a full-service investment banking firm offering a wide range of sophisticated, value-added services to institutional investors and middle market companies. Providing creative products and solutions, our firm has a well-established track record of finding value in places other firms overlook. With the expertise of a bulge bracket organization and the personal attention of a boutique firm, Imperial Capital strikes the perfect balance to meet your needs. We offer superior capabilities and skills in three distinct areas of the financial industry: Investment Banking, Investment Research, and Institutional Sales and Trading. From offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, our firm’s 150 employees stand ready to serve your needs.

Through our Investment Banking Group, we offer a full range of services including debt and equity financing, sell-side and buy-side, mergers and acquisitions advisory, financial restructuring and recapitalization advisory, and valuation, fairness, and solvency opinions. We specialize in raising capital in challenging situations that require a creative marketing and structuring approach, particularly for middle market companies.

We have a wide range of experience in providing advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. We pride ourselves on providing bulge bracket experience to our middle market clients. Our strong relationships with a broad range of strategic and financial buyers enhance our ability to attract parties to transactions and maximize value for our clients. Our professional team has the depth of experience and knowledge to negotiate and execute transactions effectively on behalf of our clients.

In addition, we offer one of the largest national restructuring and recapitalization practices in the industry. Our investment banking professionals have extensive experience in providing restructuring and advisory services to companies across all sectors of the economy. Our professionals have participated in some of the largest restructurings in the country and we pride ourselves on finding creative solutions, especially in contested or difficult situations.

We have a strong research component that is distinguished by its integrated approach of analyzing an issuer’s entire capital structure. The goal of our Research Group is to provide value added insight that enhances the investment performance of our institutional clients. Our research specialists typically take a buy-side approach in identifying situations that are overlooked or misunderstood by the market.

Imperial Capital’s Institutional Sales and Trading professionals have special expertise in the secondary trading of high-yield, distressed and illiquid debt and equity securities, bank debt and trade claims. We believe we differentiate ourselves from our competition by providing superior service, fully integrating our senior settlement and legal professionals directly into our trading operations, and providing timely and creative solutions to a wide range of trading opportunities.