Sterling Cooper, Inc. concentrates on an old business idea founded by the Dutch East India Company: Merchant Banking. We pair it with 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. We can offer advice in all areas necessary to buy or sell a business, and provide all advertising and marketing with our exclusive “IMPACT 77” division, including internet marketing.
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 are experienced business advisors, valuation analysts, and M&A advisors who have been involved in over 3,700 buyouts, acquisitions, friendly and unfriendly takeovers, bids, appraisals, and financing consultations. They have been personally involved in direct acquisitions of operating companies, the largest with revenues approaching $900 million, including a NYSE-listed company acquired in a tender offer. Across their careers they have structured transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $70 billion. When you engage Sterling Cooper, you work directly with those principals.
Through our buying group, clients, and partners, our clients have access to a network representing over $200 billion in combined assets, along with intermediaries and investment banks worldwide. That reach gives us substantial deal availability for review, and the flexibility to find the right opportunities for your business.
3,700+Transactions Advised
$200B+Buying Group & Client Network
$70B+Transaction Value Structured
100+Years of Combined Experience
Every figure on this page is explained, in plain terms, below.
Full Candor
The record, in plain terms
Powerful numbers deserve plain explanations. Here is exactly what each figure means, and what it does not.
100+Years of Combined Experience
The cumulative professional experience of the firm’s principals and senior advisors across merchant banking, M&A, operations, and advisory practice. It reflects the depth of the team, not the age of a single individual or entity.
3,700+Transactions Advised
The cumulative number of buyouts, acquisitions, friendly and unfriendly takeover bids, appraisals, and financing consultations in which our principals have been involved over the course of their careers, spanning manufacturing, transportation, retail, contracting, printing, distribution, banking, and real estate.
$200B+Buying Group & Client Network
The approximate combined assets of the firm’s buying group, together with our clients and partners. This network gives our clients access to intermediaries and investment banks worldwide and substantial deal availability for review. It is not capital managed, held, or invested by Sterling Cooper. We are not fund managers.
$70B+Transaction Value Structured
The approximate aggregate value of the transactions our principals have structured or advised across their careers, spanning buyouts, acquisitions, divestitures, and financings. It reflects deal value advised upon, not capital deployed or managed by the firm.
$900MLargest Direct Acquisition
The approximate revenues of the largest company in whose direct acquisition our principals were personally involved. Their experience also includes the acquisition of a New York Stock Exchange–listed company through a tender offer.
All figures reflect the combined experience and relationships of the firm’s principals, buying group, clients, and partners, as described above. Past experience is not a guarantee of future results.
Our Commitment
We want to be your impact team
If you want to grow, if you want to acquire, if you want marketing advice or PR help, we are your instant response team. We also serve all your web design, computer hardware, software and remote access needs.
If you are looking to sell your company, divest a division, or just get an idea of the value of the business, we will be happy to provide you with our services: totally, confidentially, and quickly. If your business needs management assistance, we are ready to help.
We are looking forward to doing business together.
Sterling Cooper, Inc.
Speed & Precision
Transactions today must be structured with both speed and precision. We are disciplined in both areas. Every element is handled swiftly, yet thoroughly.
Implementation, Not Just Advice
Unlike consultants who merely offer suggestions, we follow through and actively implement the solutions we recommend.
Discretion & Confidentiality
Advisory that is discreet, confidential, and highly strategic. The way a life’s work deserves to be handled.
Proven Method
No secret formulas, no gimmicks. Practical, proven strategies refined over decades of hands-on experience, with results that can be measured.
Lasting Relationships
We believe in building lasting relationships with our clients, fostering collaboration, and delivering results that exceed expectations.
Integrity
Whatever your business aspirations may be, we are here to turn them into reality with professionalism, efficiency, and integrity.
Leadership
The Principals
Sterling Cooper is led by its principals, and clients deal with them directly.
C. Adam Jansen
Chief Executive Officer
C. Adam Jansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cooper, Inc. and the author of How to Double Your Business Every Year, the firm’s guide for owners and CEOs pursuing substantial, sustainable growth through strategic acquisitions.
The methods in that book, and in the firm’s daily practice, were not invented in a classroom. They were refined over more than four decades of hands-on work: buyouts and turnarounds, appraisals and financings, friendly and unfriendly takeovers, learned deal by deal. There are no secret formulas or gimmicks in his approach. Only straightforward, practical steps, applied with discipline.
Hunter D. Rogers
President
Hunter D. Rogers is the President of Sterling Cooper, Inc. and leads the firm’s digital infrastructure, blockchain, and artificial intelligence advisory practice, guiding businesses, institutions, and governments on the technologies that will move value and decisions through the next century of commerce.
His career has carried him across the world’s financial capitals, forging partnerships with billion-dollar technology companies and working alongside the leaders and experts shaping modern finance. He helped scale one of the largest blockchain ecosystems on earth, directing ecosystem development and capital allocation from a billion-dollar fund, and completed executive education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate development, along with Wharton certification in Artificial Intelligence for Business.
He has delivered speaking engagements at Ivy League institutions including Harvard and Princeton as well as MIT, and has been invited to contribute to reports on the future of money and technology presented on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations General Assembly. He brings one standard to every mandate: practical strategy, executed with precision, measured by results.
From the Desk of the Chief Executive
Message from Our Chief Executive
On responsibility, legacy, and the standard our practice demands.
To the owners, founders, and stewards of businesses,
Merchant banking is one of the oldest ideas in commerce, and decades of practicing it have taught me a simple truth: a business is never just a balance sheet. It is years of early mornings, payroll met and promises kept, a name that a family or a community has come to rely on. When an owner sits across from us, considering a sale, an acquisition, or the next decade of growth, we are being trusted with more than a transaction. We are being trusted with a life’s work.
That trust is the standard we hold ourselves to. It is why we move with speed and precision, because in a transaction, time is rarely on the owner’s side. It is why we do not merely make recommendations. We stay to implement them. And it is why we deal only in practical, proven methods rather than gimmicks: the same disciplines I have spent more than forty years refining, deal by deal, through trial, error, and hard-won lessons.
My commitment to you is straightforward. We will tell you the truth, even when it is not what you hoped to hear. We will guard your confidence as if it were our own. We will treat your company with the care of an owner, because we have been owners. And you will always deal with us directly, with the people whose names stand behind the work.
Institutions endure when their word is good and their work is better. That is the legacy this firm was built on, and the one we intend to leave.
We are looking forward to doing business together.
C. Adam Jansen
Chief Executive Officer · Sterling Cooper, Inc.
From the Desk of the President
Message from Our President
On foundations, the future, and the answer we intend to be.
To those who intend to build something that lasts,
I was raised on the stories of the great houses of finance: the ones that put capital and conviction behind railroads, fleets, and industries before the world believed in them. What made those houses great was never money alone. It was discipline, judgment, and the willingness to put their own names on the line. That is the tradition Sterling Cooper carries, and the standard I hold this firm to every single day.
My own work sits at the frontier: blockchain, artificial intelligence, and the digital settlement infrastructure that will move value through the next century of commerce. That work has carried me across the world’s financial capitals, into partnerships with billion-dollar technology companies, onto the stages of Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, and into reports on the future of money and technology contributed on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations General Assembly. Everywhere, the lesson is the same. The future belongs to the people who build its foundations. Everyone else pays rent to them.
At Sterling Cooper, we join that frontier to a century of discipline. The same rigor our principals brought to thousands of transactions now guides how we help businesses, institutions, and governments modernize the infrastructure beneath their operations. New rails, old rules: tell the truth, protect the client, finish the work.
And one thing about this house will never change. Here, you are never handed off and never managed at a distance. You sit across from the principals themselves, and we answer for our own work.
History does not remember who watched. It remembers who built. We intend to be the answer.
Hunter D. Rogers
President · Sterling Cooper, Inc.
“There are no secret formulas and no gimmicks. Only proven, practical steps, applied with discipline, year after year.” From How to Double Your Business Every Year
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