For more than 40 years** we have been in business to help selected clients create, protect, and capture sources of real economic value in business assets. Our hallmark assignments have include helping clients in very different situations make difficult decisions where vital interests are at stake, and to prepare for and complete landmark negotiations and transactions.
Our base of experience includes a wide range of completed assignments for clients more than 30 industries and during 6 major economic cycles in the United States. In addition of business clients we have worked with the leaders of nonprofits and universities, including Harvard University. We also have completed a number of valuation and shareholder rights. And, we have extensive experience in litigation support and preparing expert testimony in high stakes dispute resolution, including arbitration and litigation.
Representative ClientsEaton/Kenway, Inc.Federal Express Corporation New Court Securities Harvard University Harvard Business School First Chicago Corporation BankBoston/Hospital Trust Moran Shipping Corporation Mitchell D. Kapor Morgan Guaranty Bank North Street Capital MESBIC Scantron Corporation Sterling Institute NYPRO Corporation Iron Mountain Incorporated RAND Corporation/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Runtal N.A. Ropes & Gray Sullivan & Cromwell Long Island Steamship Company Chipcom Corporation EmCare Holdings, Inc. U.S. Check, Inc. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Charles River Ventures Emergency Medical Associates of New Jersey Hippographics, Inc. Narragansett Capital Inc. Nathan/Tyler Productions TECO Energy, Inc. School Street Capital Group and many others. | Typical RelationshipsClients have included senior management teams and boards of directors of emerging companies; professional managers of blue-chip venture capital, leverage buy-out, and private equity funds; commercial banks and institutional lenders; fiduciaries of private banks and money management firms; corporate attorneys, and successful individuals and their families. |
** Founded as Alta Research by John Van Slyke Jr.