Paul C. Hammer - Senior MD and Co-Founder
Mr. Hammer is a Senior Managing Director and Co-founder of Izar Capital Group, a private merchant bank specializing in a wide variety of middle-market corporate finance transactions (M&A, Joint-Ventures and Partnerships, Private Capital) and strategic advisory insight, with a strong focus on business building engagements. Expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, project finance, sourcing and structuring private debt and equity capital, complex financial restructurings, corporate financial advisory services, board advisory (fiduciary duty counseling, corporate governance), private equity investment analysis and arranging corporate alliances and joint-ventures.
For over 25 years, Mr. Hammer had been active in many aspects of corporate deal-making and growth initiatives, including acquisitions (buyside M&A), divestitures (sellside M&A), MBOs (management buyouts), debt and equity recapitalizations and restructurings, strategic investments (minority and majority), cross-border transactions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings. Mr. Hammer has advised multiple sides to these initiatives, including buyers, sellers, boards of directors, private equity groups, management teams, CEOs individually, investor groups (debt and equity), and US Federal Government agencies.
Mr. Hammer is known for his critical and thoughtful approach, his in-depth and hands-on execution of operational and performance improvement, his tactical strategic initiatives and implementation excellence and his nuanced understanding of the ever-evolving dynamic between business and the global marketplace. Mr. Hammer has been recognized for his commanding grasp of M&A structuring, negotiations and deal-making, and his ability to provide straight, honest and insightful solutions to thorny corporate finance problems. Combining strategic thinking, operational improvement and financial advisory is Mr. Hammer’s unique talent and key to his clients’ success.
Mr. Hammer is best known as a problem-solving negotiator, and regularly serves as strategic adviser to corporate boards and CEOs in their business combination and growth activities. Mr. Hammer has extensive specialized experience within many industry verticals, has direct private equity investment experience, has operational company experience, and has an abundance of senior strategic advisory experience. He is a frequent speaker on, is frequently quoted as an industry expert on and has written articles concerning corporate finance, strategy, valuation and operations.
Mr. Hammer was also the founder of Navigator Capital Group, private merchant bank, has been an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York, Waller Capital, a media and communications investment and merchant bank in New York, and Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin in Washington, DC. In addition, he is a registered FINRA securities representative and compliance principal.
Mr. Hammer received his M.B.A. from Cambridge University, the Judge Business School, St. John’s College. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from The University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Hammer served for 10 years as a Rescue Firefighter, requiring extensive specialized training focused on extraction of civilians and other firefighters, in NYC on the prestigious FDNY Rescue 1, the country’s oldest (1st Volunteer ever admitted) and ACFD Rescue 4 (Arlington County, VA), a graduate of Fire Academy I and II, and an EMT, and the recipient of 9/11 Service Award for Pentagon recovery efforts, all volunteer.
In 2014, Mr. Hammer created a rigorous 4-month, in-person, professional mentorship program, and since then has personally selected and mentored almost 100 highly-talented minds from around the globe, representing 17 countries and 60 universities, and spanning undergraduate-, graduate- and post-graduate-educated individuals.
Mr. Hammer is a well-regarded thinker and speaker on strategic business issues, emerging business trends and critical global macro business themes, having been interviewed for, or advisor to, various Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Week, Newsweek, Washington Post, CFO Magazine, Private Equity Week, The Daily Deal, Buyouts, Financial News (UK), M&A Advisor, Washington Technology, Red Herring, Washington Techway and Technology Virginia articles and Associated Press News Radio show. He has also spoken at numerous conferences and luncheons on topics related to Building Long-Term Company Value, Strategic, Business Plan Execution, M&A, Private Equity, Sourcing and Structuring Capital, Joint-Ventures & Partnerships and Business Performance Optimization.
Mr. Hammer is a Senior Managing Director and Co-founder of Izar Capital Group, a private merchant bank specializing in a wide variety of middle-market corporate finance transactions (M&A, Joint-Ventures and Partnerships, Private Capital) and strategic advisory insight, with a strong focus on business building engagements. Expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, project finance, sourcing and structuring private debt and equity capital, complex financial restructurings, corporate financial advisory services, board advisory (fiduciary duty counseling, corporate governance), private equity investment analysis and arranging corporate alliances and joint-ventures.
For over 25 years, Mr. Hammer had been active in many aspects of corporate deal-making and growth initiatives, including acquisitions (buyside M&A), divestitures (sellside M&A), MBOs (management buyouts), debt and equity recapitalizations and restructurings, strategic investments (minority and majority), cross-border transactions, joint ventures, debt and equity financings. Mr. Hammer has advised multiple sides to these initiatives, including buyers, sellers, boards of directors, private equity groups, management teams, CEOs individually, investor groups (debt and equity), and US Federal Government agencies.
Mr. Hammer is known for his critical and thoughtful approach, his in-depth and hands-on execution of operational and performance improvement, his tactical strategic initiatives and implementation excellence and his nuanced understanding of the ever-evolving dynamic between business and the global marketplace. Mr. Hammer has been recognized for his commanding grasp of M&A structuring, negotiations and deal-making, and his ability to provide straight, honest and insightful solutions to thorny corporate finance problems. Combining strategic thinking, operational improvement and financial advisory is Mr. Hammer’s unique talent and key to his clients’ success.
Mr. Hammer is best known as a problem-solving negotiator, and regularly serves as strategic adviser to corporate boards and CEOs in their business combination and growth activities. Mr. Hammer has extensive specialized experience within many industry verticals, has direct private equity investment experience, has operational company experience, and has an abundance of senior strategic advisory experience. He is a frequent speaker on, is frequently quoted as an industry expert on and has written articles concerning corporate finance, strategy, valuation and operations.
Mr. Hammer was also the founder of Navigator Capital Group, private merchant bank, has been an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York, Waller Capital, a media and communications investment and merchant bank in New York, and Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin in Washington, DC. In addition, he is a registered FINRA securities representative and compliance principal.
Mr. Hammer received his M.B.A. from Cambridge University, the Judge Business School, St. John’s College. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from The University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Hammer served for 10 years as a Rescue Firefighter, requiring extensive specialized training focused on extraction of civilians and other firefighters, in NYC on the prestigious FDNY Rescue 1, the country’s oldest (1st Volunteer ever admitted) and ACFD Rescue 4 (Arlington County, VA), a graduate of Fire Academy I and II, and an EMT, and the recipient of 9/11 Service Award for Pentagon recovery efforts, all volunteer.
In 2014, Mr. Hammer created a rigorous 4-month, in-person, professional mentorship program, and since then has personally selected and mentored almost 100 highly-talented minds from around the globe, representing 17 countries and 60 universities, and spanning undergraduate-, graduate- and post-graduate-educated individuals.
Mr. Hammer is a well-regarded thinker and speaker on strategic business issues, emerging business trends and critical global macro business themes, having been interviewed for, or advisor to, various Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Week, Newsweek, Washington Post, CFO Magazine, Private Equity Week, The Daily Deal, Buyouts, Financial News (UK), M&A Advisor, Washington Technology, Red Herring, Washington Techway and Technology Virginia articles and Associated Press News Radio show. He has also spoken at numerous conferences and luncheons on topics related to Building Long-Term Company Value, Strategic, Business Plan Execution, M&A, Private Equity, Sourcing and Structuring Capital, Joint-Ventures & Partnerships and Business Performance Optimization.