Welcome to de Visscher & Co., LLC.
 

de Visscher & Co. is an independent financial advisor to business owning families and closely held businesses worldwide.  Through a unique combination of financial consulting and investment banking services the team at de Visscher & Co. creates high value-added solutions to the liquidity needs of shareholders and the capital needs of their businesses. Since its inception in 1990, we have advised over 300 families from Northern & Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.

"We understand the many challenges facing family companies and their owners because we deal with those issues everyday as advisors and as owners." - François de Visscher

We specialize in:

Financial Consulting Services Financial Consulting Services
Serving as a trusted financial advisor to its clients, de Visscher & Co. designs, evaluates and implements often complex financial solutions to the capital, liquidity and wealth planning needs of the family owned and closely held businesses.
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Equity Capital Raising Equity Capital Raising
Our Equity Capital raising services include identifying, structuring, negotiating and placing equity capital from a variety of sources including private equity funds, institutional funds, families and family offices.
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Debt Financing Debt Financing
Our Debt Financing services include the arrangement, negotiating and structuring of a wide range of senior debt and mezzanine financings to meet our clients’ objectives to meet the capital and liquidity needs of our family business and closely-held clients.
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Megers and Acquisitions Services Mergers & Acquisition Services
de Visscher & Co. assists clients in providing for shareholder liquidity through strategic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, asset divestitures, company sales and recapitalizations.
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de Visscher supports Project Hope
in Haiti
What's New
Jim Murphy and Terry Hannafin
earn FFI Certificate in Family Business
Advising… Murphy also acquires
Fellow Status
Family Business Wiki Francois de Visscher
on Raising Capital for
Family Businesses
Cash, Consolidation the M&A Catalysts
Wall Street Journal - 9/28/09
See our New Resource Guide Page
 
Recent Publications
Though Much Has Changed,
Core Strengths are Constant
- by François de Visscher
Alternative Financing Options
- by Jim Murphy and Ross Sealfon
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Upcoming Events
DE VISSCHER & CO.'s SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS FOR 2009

Elite Summit 2009
Montreux, Switzerland
November 2-4, 2009
www.marcusevans.com

European Family Office Conference
London, England
November. 9-11, 2009
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Business Growth Alliance
Founding Member of
Business Growth Alliance (BGA)

de Visscher & Co. designs, evaluates and implements often complex financial solutions to the capital, liquidity and wealth planning needs of the family owned businesses and closely held companies. In doing so, we assist our clients in continuously balancing the liquidity needs of shareholders, the capital needs of the business and the control preferences of the family.

Access to the sources of long term capital with a patient and a value added perspective is increasingly a necessity for Family Business Investors in todays competitive environment.

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