HARTFORD CAPITAL GROUP provides, one stop, turnkey solutions for our client’s corporate development requirements including Investment Banking, Legal, Broker Dealer, and Merchant Banking services. In order to accomplish this objective, we have chosen to remain a small firm, of substantial scope and depth, dependent upon fewer clients who require a consistent level of high quality results. To meet these criteria, we, in turn, employ only senior level professionals to personally deliver our services. Since we do not require a large staff, we are not distracted by the requirements to manage or support them. This form of organization allows us to be highly client and market focused as opposed to fee driven.

From our very beginning in 1979, Hartford has viewed its role as being either an extension to the CEO, to accomplish a specific task or as a client team member, applying strategic or tactical concepts to solve business or organizational issues.

Our primary objective is to help our clients develop and maintain a decided competitive advantage. We focus on results over process, and we seek to provide our clients with common-sense advice in a cost-efficient manner. While many bankers and lawyers in today's business world can become lost in the fight or the deal, Hartford provides real-world advice and practical solutions to local, national and international industry leaders. To do that, it is impossible to provide counsel to two or more competing clients with impartiality. Hartford believes in maintaining the confidentiality of client's identities and the exact nature of the work undertaken.

We serve clients in numerous industries including energy, petrochemical, chemical, information technology, security, aerospace, telecommunications, transportation, media, advertising, financial services, insurance, gaming, education, health care, manufacturing, real estate, retail, construction, and leasing.

From the boardroom to the courtroom and from Main Street to Wall Street, Hartford combines the talent and expertise of our banker, lawyers, CPA’s, and financial engineers into multi-disciplinary client teams and industry teams. These teams are comprised of seasoned professionals from a variety of disciplines who are equipped to identify the corporate development needs of the client and develop superior service strategies that provide unmatched support.

Hartford works with clients in a wide variety of practice areas, including: raising debt or equity, structured project finance, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, privatizations, initial public offerings, private placements, environmental regulation, permitting, expert witness, real estate, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and reorganization.

Whether we are helping our clients defend lawsuits, raise capital, comply with regulatory requirements, enter new markets, obtain and defend intellectual property rights, develop and distribute products and services, or acquire or divest businesses, we understand that our client's goals are paramount. When our clients are faced with disputes, we assist them in identifying and pursuing the fastest and most effective solutions.

We have a particular dedication to working closely with middle market and Fortune 500 companies with significant operations in the South East - ensuring that they have the resources they need to grow into leaders in the region.

Our firm's 30-year history is one of lasting alliances with our clients. Our client partnerships are based on value, service, and know-how. We diligently pursue results that allow our clients to out-perform their competitors. At Hartford, our most important assets are our people and our reputation for results. The only thing more valuable than our reputation, is the reputation of our clients.

HARTFORD CAPITAL GROUP is dedicated to providing fully integrated advisory services to buyers, sellers and managers of medium-sized companies.  Hartford has recognized that medium-sized companies receive little support or attention from the traditional investment banking firms on Wall Street or the major consulting companies. At Hartford we have completed over 200 corporate development transactions ranging in size from $3 million to $1.6 billion and our target market is between $25 million and $300 million.  Additionally, Hartford has completed over $10 billion dollars in project finance funding. Our reputation has been built upon representing our clients from initial contact through the closing of a transaction and post transaction integration.  We understand that the selling or buying of a business can be a complex transaction as well as an emotionally involved experience for owners and employees alike.

With offices in New Orleans and Atlanta, Hartford offers expertise in six basic areas:

• Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, Joint Ventures, IPO’s
• Sale of a Company
• Purchase of a Business
• Corporate Divestiture
• Strategic Alliance of Companies
• Valuations, Fairness Opinions, Litigation Support
• Preparing Financial Valuation Studies
• Valuing Intangible Assets
• Rendering Fairness Opinions
• Providing Expert Witness Testimony
• Private Placements
• Debt
• Equity
• Project Finance
• Legal Consulting
• Document Drafting
• Taxation Analysis
• Deal Structure
• Financial and Strategic Consulting
• Financial Engineering and Analysis
• Capital Structure
• Make/Buy/Build Analysis
• Executive Search Consulting