About Us
We are committed to being a high value-added & trusted advisor to middle market businesses and we are committed to our clients’ success.
VeriQuest Advisors is an independent investment banking and strategic consulting firm. We are a high value-added, trusted strategic advisor with a long-term client focus on middle-market businesses (typically with ~ $10 - $250+ million of revenue). We serve a variety of client types – from entrepreneur and family-owned businesses to private equity/venture capital-backed businesses and large, global corporations.
We have particular experience in assisting:
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Owner/entrepreneur and family-owned businesses, including those that that have little/no outside capital and/or little strategic transaction experience;
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Working with private equity and, in some instances, venture capital-backed companies that appreciate our significant experience; and,
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Businesses that have a large opportunity ahead of them and need help maximizing it.
Founding Principal
Alex Allgood is the Founder of VeriQuest Advisors. Alex has over 25 years of experience across a range of investment banking and principal investment roles and over 10 years of experience in working with middle market and lower middle market owner/entrepreneur-owned and family-owned businesses where he has developed a keen understanding of the opportunities and challenges associated with these businesses. Over the course of his career, Alex has closed over $45 billion of M&A, financing and restructuring transactions and has been a proven, trusted advisor to many clients, including GE, Siemens, Danaher, Dana Corporation, Tompkins PLC, QUALCOMM, ADC Telecommunications, Seagate Technology, Vitesse Semiconductor, Starwood Corporation and other large cap and middle market clients.
Alex also has significant private equity investment experience which allows him to understand and discuss buyers’ perspectives in order to add value to sell-side and buy-side investment banking clients and to add value to strategic consulting clients. Prior to these buy-side roles, Alex was a Senior Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Lehman Brothers, Inc. where he spent ~9 years in New York and Silicon Valley in the Consumer, Industrial and Technology industry verticals and was the staffer for the Technology M&A Group in Silicon Valley where he managed the junior staff in the group. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Alex worked in the Corporate Finance Group at Nesbitt Burns Securities, Inc. (now BMO Capital Markets) in New York where he focused primarily on Energy transactions and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Houston in a non-audit, financial advisory capacity.
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Mr. Allgood lives in Dallas with his wife and two wonderful daughters and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a BA in Finance and an MBA with a concentration in Finance and Dean’s List distinction.