- Market Street Capital has evolved from its origins in investor relations into a diversified financial services platform spanning advisory, investment banking, capital raising, restructuring, valuation, and real estate services.
- The company focuses on established middle-market businesses with enterprise values ranging from $10 million to $1 billion, serving a defined client base that frequently requires sophisticated financial and strategic advisory services.
- Market Street Capital’s platform combines strategic advisory and transaction execution capabilities, allowing the firm to support clients across multiple stages of the corporate lifecycle.
- The leadership team brings experience across capital markets, structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, private credit, public company transactions, corporate development, and business operations.
- Institutional-grade compliance and governance standards are embedded across the firm’s operations, with regulated activities conducted through established broker-dealer and investment advisory frameworks.
- The company has advised on more than $3 billion in completed transactions, reports a multi-billion-dollar active pipeline, and maintains relationships across institutional investors, private equity firms, family offices, lenders, and strategic acquirers.
Market Street Capital is a boutique capital markets and financial advisory firm that works with established middle-market businesses navigating pivotal moments in their development. The company serves founder-led, family-owned, and private equity-backed enterprises seeking guidance on strategic transactions, capital formation, governance matters, and long-term value creation.
Founded in 2012 as Market Street Investor Relations, the firm initially focused on helping companies build investor confidence and strengthen public perception. In 2021, it rebranded as Market Street Capital to reflect its expansion into a broader financial services platform encompassing advisory, investment banking, wealth management, and private equity capabilities.
Today, Market Street Capital combines institutional-quality expertise with the personalized service of a boutique firm, delivering strategic insight and disciplined transaction execution across the corporate lifecycle.
The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and maintains additional locations across California, Louisiana, New York, and Switzerland.
Advisory & Capital Markets Platform
Market Street Capital provides strategic advisory services to boards, executives, shareholders, and investors facing significant business, governance, and capital allocation decisions. The firm’s Strategic Planning & Advisory practice supports clients through restructurings, recapitalizations, divestitures, joint ventures, executive leadership transitions, governance initiatives, and public market readiness efforts. The practice also advises on strategic alternatives, capital structure optimization, succession planning, and post-transaction integration.
The company’s investment banking platform spans mergers and acquisitions, private equity raises, debt capital markets, specialty lending, valuation services, and restructuring advisory. Market Street Capital advises clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions, capital raising initiatives, debt financing structures, liquidity events, and special situations requiring complex stakeholder coordination. The firm’s valuation capabilities support transaction planning, capital events, strategic decision-making, litigation matters, and the valuation of businesses, securities, financial instruments, and tangible and intangible assets.
Market Street Capital also assists companies preparing for the public markets through IPO readiness assessments, capital structure planning, syndicate organization, valuation strategy, investor positioning, and roadshow preparation. Beyond traditional corporate advisory services, the firm maintains a real estate practice focused on capital markets advisory, strategic planning, recapitalizations, restructurings, acquisitions, dispositions, and financing solutions across multiple property sectors. The firm’s wealth management platform complements these capabilities, offering qualified investors tax-efficient access to private market strategies, including insurance dedicated fund (“IDF”) and credit enhancement fund structures.
Market Opportunity
Market Street Capital focuses on established businesses with enterprise values ranging from $10 million to $1 billion, including founder-led, private equity-backed, and family-owned companies pursuing growth initiatives, recapitalizations, ownership transitions, liquidity events, and strategic transactions. The firm’s advisory and capital markets platform is designed to support clients through a broad range of financial and operational inflection points.
According to PwC, global M&A deal values increased 36% between 2024 and 2025, driven in part by a rise in transactions valued at more than $5 billion. PwC reported that megadeals increased from 63 transactions in 2024 to 111 transactions in 2025, while the Americas accounted for approximately 60% of global deal value. The firm also noted that deal values in the Americas increased 55% year over year, reflecting continued activity across the transaction landscape despite broader economic and geopolitical uncertainty. This sustained level of deal activity, alongside generational ownership transitions occurring across the middle market, supports continued demand for the independent advisory and capital markets services Market Street Capital provides.
Leadership Team
Stan Abiassi, Founder and CEO, brings more than 30 years of experience helping businesses pursue transformational growth and navigate capital markets opportunities. Prior to founding Market Street Capital, he built and led a small-cap and middle-market firm that assisted companies through public listings, sales at premium valuations, strategic transactions, and other significant corporate milestones. During the past 14 years, he has led Market Street Capital’s efforts in capital raising, strategic partnerships, initial public offerings, and merger and acquisition transactions. He holds Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses and is widely regarded as a trusted advisor within the business and investment community.
Daniel Langston, Managing Partner and Chief Business Officer, is an entrepreneur and executive whose career has spanned entertainment, sports marketing, real estate, technology, and business development. His experience includes founding and exiting a national sports marketing firm operating in 12 cities, leading a 240-person sales organization serving more than 800 clients, consulting across multiple industries, and serving as chairman of a technology company. At Market Street Capital, he focuses on strategic growth, innovation, and business development initiatives.
Dourgam Kummer, Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer, has more than 30 years of executive leadership and strategic development experience focused on structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and multinational operations. His background includes overseeing international business units, managing teams of more than 100 employees, and helping guide a technology company through an initial public offering on both the Swiss Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. He has also served on multiple boards and brings experience in venture capital, corporate finance, and strategic management.
Ari Raskas, Head of Credit, is a credit investor and entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience structuring, financing, and operating both private and public companies. His experience includes sourcing, underwriting, and executing complex credit and capital markets transactions, as well as raising capital for growth-oriented businesses. Throughout his career, he has been credited with helping growth companies secure more than $2 billion in new capital across industries including healthcare, technology, education, and natural resources. His prior leadership roles include positions at RK Equity Advisors and Broadband Capital Management.
Amanda Abiassi, Partner and Head of Corporate Development, leads business development strategy, corporate partnerships, and client engagement initiatives for Market Street Capital. She brings more than 20 years of experience in event planning, fundraising, organizational growth, and relationship development. Her work focuses on strengthening strategic partnerships, supporting client growth initiatives, and advancing the company’s mission of bridging Wall Street expertise with Main Street values through long-term relationship building and organizational development.
For more information, visit the company’s website at https://www.marketstreetcp.com.
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