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Novastone Capital Advisors

Baar, Zug, Switzerland

Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA) is an operator-led buyout/search-fund style firm focused on solving SME succession challenges. It pairs mid-career operators with SME owners facing succession transitions and connects them to an investor network to fund acquisitions and support business continuity and leadership transitions.

Focus Areas
Operator-led Buyout Program, Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA) / search-fund style acquisitions, SME succession / buyouts

Tracked deals

3

3 tracked deals across 2024-2025.

Recent pace

0

0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

3 buyout

Novastone Capital Advisors Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 2 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 2 years for Novastone Capital Advisors. 2 2024 1 2025

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Novastone Capital Advisors, Bill Rees (NCA Searcher)
    Target
    Cronus Technology, Inc.
    Seller
    Eric Romero
    Type
    Buyout

    Novastone Capital Advisors searcher Bill Rees has completed the acquisition of Cronus Technology, Inc., a Houston-based pipeline and subsea engineering services firm. The transaction resolves a succession challenge for founder Eric Romero and brings CTI under operator-led ownership as part of NCA's Operator-Led Search Fund Program.

  • Buyer
    Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA)
    Target
    Keystone Specialty Pharmacy
    Seller
    Jeffrey Clark, Kim Clark
    Type
    Buyout

    Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA), a Switzerland-based private equity firm, has acquired Keystone Specialty Pharmacy, a specialty pharmacy based in Mississippi. The acquisition was completed as part of NCA’s Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA) program; Dr. Lisa Piercey will lead the pharmacy and the sellers were owners Jeffrey and Kim Clark.

  • Buyer
    Ethos Partners LLP (Ethos Search Capital), Novastone Capital Advisors, Dean Curran (searcher / incoming CEO and co-owner)
    Target
    Garner Osborne Circuits Limited
    Seller
    Mike Garner, Nigel Priest
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Location
    Berkshire, United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Ethos Partners LLP, through its Ethos Search Capital vehicle, has invested in Garner Osborne Circuits Limited to back searcher and incoming CEO Dean Curran in a succession buyout. The transaction provides an exit for founders Mike Garner and Nigel Priest, and was also supported by Novastone Capital Advisors (investor) and debt financing from ThinCats.

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