Paragon Capital Group LLC (Paragon) is a merchant bank that provides investment capital as well as financial advisory services to private and public companies across a variety of industries. Paragon has subsidiaries which include a broker/dealer and a general partner of a long/short equity hedge fund. As principals, we have acquired over 60 companies with aggregate value exceeding $1 billion. As financial advisors, we have been responsible for capital raising and M&A transactions totaling several billion dollars.
Through our broker-dealer, ParaCap Group LLC (ParaCap), we specialize in providing capital raising and corporate development services for companies desiring senior-level services that maximize value for our clients. We are committed to long-term relationships with our clients by focusing on a select group of companies. We strive to avoid transaction-oriented engagements and prefer relationships where we can provide objective advice by serving as strategic partners with our clients. Over time, we expect to gain a comprehensive understanding of our clients' businesses, such that we can ultimately function as an on-call, outsourced corporate finance/business development unit.
By focusing on a limited group of clients, we can provide a level of responsiveness and depth of knowledge superior to other boutique investment banking firms. We prefer to work with companies in which we have a meaningful ownership stake. While an ownership position is not required, we believe that having our interests aligned with our clients ensures that we provide services that lead to maximum enterprise value as opposed to maximum transaction fee value.
Through Paragon Investment Advisors, LLC ("PIA"), we serve as general partner of a hedge fund with positions primarily in small cap U.S. companies. Based on the expertise of our principals, the fund focuses companies in the financial services, insurance, real estate, waste and basic manufacturing industries. PIA employs a value-based investment strategy supported by fundamental company analysis to determine where best to invest its capital.
- Make investments in businesses that need growth capital or liquidity for shareholders.
- Provide advice that serves our clients’ best interests, not ours.
- Focus on developing long-term relationships such that our clients become partners.
- If appropriate, offer senior management services to help our partners.
