
Careers
Work on Transactions Where Judgment Matters
Palmstone Capital works with founders, shareholders, acquirers, sponsors, family offices, management teams, and boards on M&A, private capital, debt financing, recapitalizations, and strategic alternatives.
Express InterestA Firm for People Who Take Advisory Work Seriously
Palmstone is built around independent advice, careful preparation, confidentiality, and senior judgment. The work is analytical, commercial, and relationship-driven because clients often come to us when ownership, capital structure, succession, or acquisition strategy is at stake.
Professionals who do well here tend to care about the substance of a transaction, not just the process. They want to understand why a founder may sell, why a strategic acquirer may pursue a target, how a sponsor thinks about downside protection, and how a lender weighs cash flow, security, covenants, and closing certainty.
The platform covers M&A advisory, buy-side acquisitions, capital raising, and debt advisory. That breadth matters because many client questions do not fit neatly into one category. A shareholder liquidity event may involve a minority recapitalization, a sale process, debt refinancing, or no transaction at all.
We value people who can combine rigor with discretion. Client situations are sensitive, and strong work requires precise analysis, thoughtful communication, and the maturity to know when a question deserves more context before a recommendation is made.
The day-to-day work can include reviewing business models, preparing discussion materials, comparing buyer or capital provider alternatives, supporting diligence questions, and helping senior advisors frame the tradeoffs a client should understand. The common thread is not volume for its own sake. It is the ability to produce work that helps a client make a better decision at a consequential moment, with enough care that the analysis remains useful when conditions, counterparties, or transaction priorities change.
Areas of Work
Palmstone professionals may work across several advisory areas depending on experience, client needs, and transaction context. Each area requires careful judgment about value, counterparties, timing, structure, and execution risk.
M&A Advisory
Supporting founders, shareholders, acquirers, sponsors, and boards through sale processes, acquisitions, valuation analysis, buyer conversations, diligence, negotiation, and closing coordination.
Learn moreCapital Raising
Helping companies and shareholders compare growth equity, private placements, structured capital, minority recapitalizations, strategic capital, and investor alternatives.
Learn moreDebt Advisory
Advising borrowers, sponsors, and acquisition platforms on senior debt, direct lending, unitranche, mezzanine capital, refinancing, and financing structure.
Learn moreWho should reach out
Different Backgrounds Can Add Value
We are interested in people who can improve the quality of advice clients receive. That can come from advisory execution, sector expertise, capital markets experience, operating knowledge, buyer relationships, or disciplined analytical work. A useful background is not limited to a single title. What matters is whether the experience helps clients understand value, risk, counterparties, financing options, or transaction structure with more clarity.
Analyst and Associate Professionals
Professionals who can support company analysis, market mapping, buyer and investor research, materials preparation, financial review, and process execution.
Experienced Transaction Advisors
Advisors with experience in M&A, corporate finance, private capital, debt financing, sector coverage, or cross-border execution.
Senior Advisors and Sector Specialists
Senior professionals with trusted relationships, sector judgment, operating perspective, or capital markets experience relevant to middle-market clients.
What Palmstone Values
The work requires more than modeling ability or market language. Clients rely on advisors to handle sensitive information, ask direct questions, challenge weak assumptions, and communicate tradeoffs without exaggeration.
Candidates should understand that good advisory work is often quiet before it becomes visible. Preparation, diligence, counterparty mapping, financial analysis, and document quality can determine whether a client enters the market with clarity or unnecessary risk.
Clear written and verbal communication under time pressure
Commercial judgment around business models, markets, capital structure, and transaction risk
Careful handling of confidential information and sensitive ownership decisions
Ability to turn research, analysis, and client context into practical recommendations
Interest in cross-border transactions and private capital markets
Low-ego collaboration with senior professionals and counterparties
Interested in Contributing?
If your background is relevant to M&A, private capital, debt financing, acquisitions, sector coverage, or transaction execution, we welcome a thoughtful introduction. Include the type of work you are best positioned to support and why your experience is relevant to Palmstone clients.
For more context on the firm, review the About page and the Resources hub before reaching out. The strongest introductions are clear, concise, and specific about the advisory work you want to do.