A private capital markets firm.
Ascentivelab Group advises family offices, investment firms and private lenders, and the companies it presents to them. The work is acquisitions, capital formation, and ownership transition. The Firm is based in New York and active across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The Firm works to the thesis it is given.
Family offices, investment firms and private lenders retain the Firm, and so do the companies it presents to them. Every mandate is handled at the senior level, from first contact to close.
The Firm tracks the capital forming in its sectors and the companies operating in them, name by name. When a mandate is taken, the map already exists.
Capital providers under coverage.
Recorded writing private checks directly.
A coverage record is one capital provider classified by the mandate it holds: check size, capital structure, sector, stage, control preference, hold period and geography.
A provider counts in the second figure where the record shows checks it wrote itself. Commitments to other funds do not count.
Capital Partners
Private equity firms, family offices, private credit and direct lenders, wealth management and private investors, and project finance sponsors.
Capital PartnersCompanies & Owners
Companies raising capital, pursuing a sale or acquisition, or navigating ownership transition.
Companies & OwnersFrom instruction to close.
Capital states a thesis, or a company states an intention.
The record rules most names out before anyone is contacted.
The few that hold are approached privately, in sequence.
Each party comes to the table on terms it has already seen.
The Firm serves a limited number of clients on each side and does not accept overlapping mandates within a thesis and geography.
Engagements are conducted in confidence. Names are withheld from the public record unless a client elects otherwise.
Retainer plus success fee weighted to completion. The Firm’s economics resolve at close, alongside the client’s.
Some work belongs elsewhere.
Auctions, and any process a client wants broadcast
The Firm’s work is negotiated and private. A broadcast process belongs to a bank.
Rounds closing within days
The terms are already set. There is nothing left to negotiate.
Work outside the sectors the Firm covers
The Firm covers digital infrastructure and data centers, energy and project finance, technology, healthcare and life sciences, aerospace, defense and industrials, and business and financial services. Outside them it has no coverage worth charging for.
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