Klarian Capital Group

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Welcome to Klarian Capital Group, and thank you for exploring our website. At Klarian, we take our clients' business challenges seriously and address them is a serious manner. And our site is a serious effort introduce you to us and show you what we do and how and why we are unique in the way we do it. It might take you a few moments to work your way through our site, but we hope that, once you have, you'll consider it time well spent.

This site is designed to do two things. First, we hope that it will enable you to learn a little bit about the way in which we might approach your particular needs. Therefore, we have included separate pages that describe the three primary types of challenges with which we assist our clients. Each of these pages - Financial and Strategic Consulting, Boutique Investment Banking and Real Estate Services - includes an overview of the types of services that we provide and specific examples of the help and support that we have provided individual clients.
Second, from time to time, we will provide you with resources that we believe can be valuable to smaller and middle market companies. These resources will include informative articles written either by our staff or other professionals whose opinions we respect and value (see our Newsletters and Articles page), introductions to some of the other professionals with whom we partner or collaborate (see Our Partners and Friends page) and other materials that we come across from time to time and believe can be helpful.

Klarian Capital Group is a diversified Financial, Strategic and Real Estate Services firm. At Klarian, we believe that we support privately owned, smaller and middle market companies in a unique way by providing them with what we term Financial and Strategic Services and Entrepreneurial Services. We provide these services through our Boutique Investment Banking Group, our Financial and Strategic Consulting Group and our Real Estate Services Group. Helping our clients and prospective clients understand why and how we are unique is important in maximizing their ability to exploit the value of our unique services.

Unlike many professional service firms, we do not concentrate on a particular menu of products and services that we offer. Rather, we focus on the needs of the market that we serve - family and entrepreneur owned operating companies and entrepreneurial real estate ventures. At its core, our mission is to find creative and flexible ways to apply our core skill sets - astute financial analysis, creative, in depth planning, strategic vision and meticulous project management - to support and enhance the efforts of ventures in a broad range of industries, encompassing all stages of development.
Klarian was founded upon a deep respect for and desire to work with entrepreneurs and we assist our clients in creating and enhancing value while meeting the immediate and longer term challenges of growth and other business transitions. The services that Klarian provides have been designed - and are continually refined and enhanced - in direct response to the needs of the market that we serve. During many years of working with smaller middle market operating companies and real estate ventures, our professionals have developed a keen understanding of the unique financial and strategic challenges that these ventures encounter. Moreover, we have learned that these smaller companies and ventures struggle to find the appropriate professional advisors who can help them navigate these challenges.
Thus, integrating an extensive financial network with consultative and strategic assistance, Klarian offers ventures that cannot access conventional investment banks and large consulting firms comprehensive and sophisticated services geared specifically to the challenges that entrepreneurs and growing private ventures face. Our services complement our clients’ capabilities and supplement the often strained physical capacity of their staffs.
Our Boutique Investment Banking Group provides a range of financial intermediary services to privately owned operating companies and real estate ventures and our Financial and Strategic Consulting Group provides private operating companies with a range of consulting and planning services. More detailed descriptions of these services are available on request. Our Real Estate Services Group provides for profit and not-for-profit developers and real estate investors with a range of financial intermediary, management, investment and planning services. You can find a "bullet point" list of the ways in which we assist our clients on our Services page.
Entrepreneurial "Skill Sets" and "Blind Spots."
Simply put, the prototypical entrepreneurial or family owned business has been built around classic "founder’s skill sets." Most frequently, these founder’s skill sets are based on some technical, creative or sales and marketing related expertise, combined with a healthy dose of entrepreneurial spirit. Consequently, most entrepreneurial and family-owned businesses lack financial, strategic and operational expertise commensurate with these core entrepreneurial skills. This is particularly true of those companies that are growing and, therefore, undergo a series of "transition points" that present financial, strategic and other managerial hurdles that their management teams have not previously encountered. For most smaller and middle market businesses, it is impractical to acquire the skills appropriate to meet these challenges through hiring high-priced full-time management team members.
This is where Klarian Capital Group enters the picture. We are able to complement these classic founder’s skills with appropriate financial and strategic capabilities on an outsourced basis, as and when the entrepreneurial venture requires them. Beyond this, we’re able to do so on a relatively cost-effective basis because we understand the financial needs and capabilities of entrepreneurial ventures and we carefully manage our overhead in order to assure that our services will be financially accessible.
So Why Is Klarian Unique Among "Entrepreneurial Services" Providers?
There are many professional firms that purport to be "entrepreneurial services" providers and serve the "middle market," but we earnestly believe that Klarian Capital Group supports entrepreneurship in a way that is unique. Simply put, most providers of business consulting and financial intermediary services to the middle market prescribe to their clients the menu of services that they offer - narrowly defined financial intermediary services such as business brokerage or loan brokerage, narrowly defined consulting services such as succession planning, turnaround management or process enhancement.
Our mission, however, is not to be a business or loan broker or a highly specialized consultant. Doing so would be fundamentally inconsistent with our mission of truly serving the entrepreneur. Each entrepreneurial company is unique, having been built around a different foundation of core skills, and key weaknesses, and having evolved in its own individual way. Consequently, each of our clients requires financial, strategic and managerial advice and support at different points in its evolution and in different ways. Because the services offered by other firms that claim to be entrepreneurial service providers typically will be of value to a business only at a specific juncture in its growth or development, those firms are very limited in their ability to assist companies on an ongoing basis, achieve an intimate knowledge of their clients’ goals and operations and develop long-term relationships of trust with the companies, their managers and their owners.
The broad range of the very "Financial and Strategic Services" and "Entrepreneurial Services" that smaller and middle market companies require as they evolve leverage essentially the same core skill sets - financial analysis and planning, strategic analysis and planning and project management. Our approach to Entrepreneurial Services is to "take these tools out of the toolbox" in a manner that is tailored to the particular needs of a given client - as, when and how the needs of the client’s business dictate. With this approach, we have been very flexible in the way we serve our clients and we have built long-standing relationships with our clients based on trust and mutually gratifying experiences.
Call Us!!! Thus, whenever you encounter a challenge, we encourage you to call us for a short, complimentary consultation. We are confident that we will be able to provide you with insightful analysis and a valuable perspective.