American Capital specializes in providing liquidity for owners of privately held corporations and facilitating buyouts of divisions and subsidiaries of public or private corporations. As an investment banking firm, American Capital helps clients restructure a company's ownership and control, and sources the financing that makes the new structure possible. American Capital employs a wide range of capital strategies to structure the most advantageous transaction possible. When an owner wants to liquidate closely held stock, management and other employees may provide an ideal market.
Tax advantages can provide the seller with more value than other alternatives.
Most importantly, the seller can roll over the proceeds and defer all tax liabilities. Linde Gases of the Midwest, with 280 employees at 18 locations. was the leading supplier of packaged gases in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The new company, Gas Tech, is majority owned by the employees with Union Carbide maintaining a significant minority interest. Existing management and employees may provide an ideal market for divestiture of a subsidiary, division or product line. ACAS' broad expertise in corporate divestitures can be utilized to assist owners, managers and employees in assessing the viability of such transactions.