Merchant Banking · A Lineage to 1907
Sterling Cooper is a merchant banking and management consulting firm built on more than a century of combined experience, and pointed squarely at what comes next. Decisions are made quickly. Execution begins immediately.
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The Firm
Sterling Cooper, Inc. concentrates on an old business idea founded by the Dutch East India Company: Merchant Banking. Alongside it, we provide business advisory services on deals for our clients in acquisitions, advertising, web design, and public relations.
We are your instant response team when you need a ready team for acquisition / divestiture consulting, advertising, marketing, or public relations. Business transactions today require the ability to structure all elements with speed and precision, and we are disciplined in both areas. Decisions are made quickly, and execution begins immediately.
Our principals have been involved in over 3,700 buyouts, acquisitions, friendly and unfriendly takeovers, bids, appraisals, and financing consultations. Through our buying group, clients, and partners, our clients gain access to a network representing over $200 billion in combined assets, and to intermediaries and investment banks worldwide.
“Advice is cheap. Results are not. We measure ourselves by the results you keep.”Read the Message from Our Chief Executive →
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Past · Present · Future
Merchant banking was first established by the Dutch East India Company: capital, counsel, and conviction placed behind real enterprises. Sterling Cooper carries that idea forward through a merchant banking lineage tracing to 1907 and more than a century of combined practice, spanning buyouts and turnarounds, takeovers friendly and unfriendly, ownership of operating companies, and a NYSE-listed acquisition by tender offer.
Today Sterling Cooper is a principal-led advisory house spanning acquisitions and divestitures, management consulting, financing introductions, public relations and IMPACT 77™ advertising, publishing, and the Engulf & Devour™ research desk. One instant response team, with representatives worldwide.
We advise businesses, institutions, and governments on blockchain, artificial intelligence, tokenization, and digital settlement infrastructure: the systems that will move value and intelligence through the next century of commerce. Industry projections suggest real-world asset tokenization alone could exceed $10 trillion by 2030.†
† Third-party industry projections; presented for context and not a prediction, promise, or guarantee by Sterling Cooper, Inc.
What We Do
Sterling Cooper, Inc. provides a full range of business consulting services ranging from merchant banking and M&A consulting, advertising, public relations, web design and book publishing.
Sellers need sound advice. Timing is essential to obtain the best price and consideration, and we are your best consultants to accomplish that.
Read More → For the BuyerMerchant Banking advice on acquisitions, takeovers, mergers and strategic alliances, advising your business on how to grow through strategic acquisition.
Read More → AdvisoryOur experienced group of senior managers will provide your “instant response” team for any problem situations involving operations or cash flow.
Read More → Best PR FirmWe handle it all. Whatever you need to publicize, we have a solution, from product promotion press releases to corporate events.
Read More → IMPACTWe act as your consultant and specialize in advertising with IMPACT: the biggest bang for your ad dollars, at the best rate possible.
Read More → PublishingOur Publishing Division produces an entire range of services needed by authors, from cover design and copy editing to ghost writing.
Read More → TechnologyComplete website development, hosting, CMS, internet marketing, and remote-access IT. Your one stop shop for all your web needs.
Read More → FinancingWe will introduce you to lenders for financing your business or possible new acquisition, and help you structure the loan and terms.
Read More → M & AAn immediate indication of the value of your company from a financial standpoint, and a comprehensive due-diligence framework.
Read More → DigitalWe help businesses, institutions, and governments unlock new economic opportunities through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and modern digital infrastructure.
Read More → Engulf & Devour™A professional research company dedicated to preparing detailed, fact-based reports about businesses and the industries in which they function.
Read More → GrowthWe help you identify, evaluate, and pursue strategic acquisitions designed to accelerate revenue growth, and provide an independent view of your own company’s value.
Read More →The Library
Guides, brochures, and fact-based research from the firm and its Engulf & Devour™ research desk.
From Our Leadership
A business is never just a balance sheet. It is someone’s life’s work. We treat it that way, we tell the truth, and we keep our word. That is how a firm lasts a hundred years.
Money itself is being rebuilt for the first time in a century. Those who build its foundations will own the next hundred years. Everyone else will pay them rent. History does not remember who watched. It remembers who built. We intend to be the answer.
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