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Capstone's Capital Markets Advantage

Proposed regulation and a burgeoning activist philosophy on the part of regulators is transforming industry. Our team complements its expertise in policy and politics with substantial investment buy-side and sell-side experience. We rigorously identify and quantify regulatory and political risks and opportunities in a wide swath of companies and specific transactions, providing differentiated insight in the process.

We dig deeper

Our process always involves a deep-dive analysis of state, federal, and international, and global policy. Our analysts mine news outlets, legislation, events, and other public resources to come up with unique investment ideas with a policy angle. We leverage our extensive outreach to relevant industry associations, advocacy groups, regulators, policymakers, and think tanks to gain a solid understanding of the relevant political landscape and the issues at hand. Our analysts focus on the minutiae of public policy by reading and reviewing public documents, including proposed rules and comment letters, proposed and enacted legislation, as well as policy meetings and hearings.

Services We Engage

We engage

Our analysts regularly consult with our clients to help them understand important policy issues. An engagement with Capstone includes the ability to request ad-hoc policy research on existing and potential investments. At the direction of clients, our team can quickly identify key regulatory issues impacting investments. We treat client requests with complete confidentiality. Our focus on a fee-based model, rather than one requiring us to drive trading volume among our clients, allows us to maintain a more compact customer base permitting a more robust dialogue with our clients than our peers.

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FTC Rule Will Heighten Merger Scrutiny Risks

FTC Rule Will Heighten Merger Scrutiny Risks

October 24, 2024 By Matt Wiederrecht, Director of Capstone's Special Situations Team Capstone believes a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule requiring merging companies to increase the amount of information submitted to antitrust regulators when filing their...

India’s Hydrogen Sector Primed for Foreign Investment

India’s Hydrogen Sector Primed for Foreign Investment

October 21, 2024 By Dhanush Arun and Dhanendra Kumar This note was co-written with Dhanendra Kumar, a member of Capstone’s India Advisory Board. Kumar was formerly the executive director at the World Bank and the first chair of the Competition Commission of India and...

Chopra’s Risky Basel Endgame Gamble

Chopra’s Risky Basel Endgame Gamble

October 14, 2024 By Keegan Ferguson, Capstone Financial Services Analyst The tortured history of the Basel III Endgame proposal— rules that aim to strengthen bank regulation, supervision, and risk management—took another turn in recent weeks when Bloomberg and others...