About Us

Kirchner Group was founded in 1985 on two fundamental premises: every business can be improved and every business should improve the world.

Our proprietary platform is built on the premise that pairing deep domain (industry) expertise with process (operational understanding) experts provides superior results. Founded in 1985 Kirchner Group has developed into one of North America’s leading boutique merchant banks. In our capacity as advisors, partners, principals and agents, we work in conjunction with management and their investors. Today Kirchner Group operates various subsidiaries, providing advisory services (M&A, assessments, diligence) and operational support (interim management, workouts, turnarounds) as well as asset management (dedicated, underperforming funds) – all leveraging a proprietary approach that dovetails domain and process expertise.

Our value proposition centers around a pragmatic approach to serving the needs of the private capital world. We have a strong client focus delivering genuine value in times of economic contraction and distress as well as periods of growth.

Kirchner Group is a unique values-based corporate ecosystem maximizing individual and social benefit through our unwavering commitment to the thoughtful integration of ‘earning and returning’. Generating genuine value for our clients. To learn more about Kirchner Group’s returning activities click here.

Proprietary domain and process approach

Kirchner Group has been providing traditional merchant banking services to some of the most promising entrepreneurs, fortune 500 companies and their investors. In addition, we manage assets for some of the largest insurance companies, commercial banks and institutional investors in the world. Everything we do and how we do it stems from an entrepreneurial culture built from real world experience.

Traditional merchant bank

Literally, merchant bankers are businessmen who become bankers. Historically, they were successful businessmen offering operational and transactional expertise, together with a deep knowledge of capital markets, to other business owners.

We believe that the foundation of merchant banking is a focus on relationships. The nature of the work and the key to success is the ability to function as a trusted, independent advisor, agent, partner, or principal. We believe and our success confirms that today, the early and mid-market businesses want what the 18th-century merchant bank pioneered.

A trusted, one-stop source for help in creating value

Kirchner Group’s clients and partners include early stage to mid-market companies, venture capital and private equity firms as well as family offices and some of the world’s largest insurance companies, commercial banks and institutional investors. Let our experience go to work for you.

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People

Founded in 1985 by W.B. Bud Kirchner, Kirchner Group is comprised of successful seasoned entrepreneurs, advisors and executives. We apply our operational, transactional and investment experience to address the unique needs of early and mid-stage companies and their investors. Kirchner Group has more than five centuries of collective experience. In addition to our numerous process experts we are unique in having numerous resident domain experts.

Team Members (alphabetical order):

Pete Ball

Pete is a turnaround and operations leader with over 40 years of expertise. He has extensive experience as interim CEO/COO, advisor and board member for public and private companies in industries such as manufacturing, energy, chemicals, automotive, aerospace and defense and staffing.
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Kirchner Group was founded in 1985 on two fundamental premises: every business can be improved and every business should improve the world.

Our value proposition centers around a pragmatic approach to serving the needs of the private capital world. We have a strong client focus delivering genuine value in times of economic contraction and distress as well as periods of growth.

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