This is the second of Billboard Insider’s profiles of out of home lenders. Last week we profiled Alerus Financial. Today we profile Stark Capital Solutions. Out of Home Lender: Stark Capital Solutions Address: 5829 N. Post Rd, Indianapolis, IN. 46216 Email: cstark@starkcapitalsolutions.com or cberry@starkcapitalsolutions.com Phone: 317-546-6038 Loan Amounts: $500k and up. Stark […]
When selling or buying a billboard company, there is a routine due diligence process that must be followed to successfully complete any transaction. For nearly 20 years, Stark Capital Solutions has advised and represented a variety of buyers and sellers on over $315M worth of billboard-related M&A transactions. Throughout our […]
Out of Home lending is a specialized form of finance. To save the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and outs of Out of Home here’s an alphabetical list of 56 Out of Home lenders compiled by SignValue and Billboard Insider. We asked SignValue […]
By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions Through our years in the industry, we have been involved in and completed hundreds of billboard transactions. While most of them are fairly “standard”, we’ve encountered some with unique stories, interesting details and complex backgrounds. We thought it would be interesting […]
Stark Capital Solutions acted as the exclusive advisor to Lamar Advertising Company in Lamar’s acquisition of Burkhart Advertising in South Bend, Indiana, which was announced yesterday. Burkhart, the 8th largest out-of-home company in the United States, was formed in 1964 by Charles Burkhart. The company was owned and run by […]
At the most recent Independent Billboard Operators (IBO) Conference in Pittsburgh, Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a fantastic panel discussion on industry merger and acquisition activity. During the discussion, Dave made some comments related to his thoughts on the healthy amount of debt for a billboard company. At Stark Capital […]
Max Drachman of Drachman M&A Co. sent us a summary of his comments at the Out of Home mergers and acquisitions panel which Billboard Insider moderated at last week’s IBOUSA show. There’s been an uptick in multiples in the last six months. Market share is becoming more valuable. Digital billboards […]
By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions With more than two-decades of industry experience, we at Stark Capital Solutions have had our fair share of questions being asked by operators all around the country interested in what other billboard companies are up to. Most often they want to […]
Out of Home financing is a specialized form of finance. To save you the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and out of out of home here’s an alphabetical list of 51 out of home lenders prepared by SignValue and Billboard Insider. We’ve included […]
By Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions Stark Capital focuses in two niche Industries: Billboards and Cell Towers. Our two cents on the comment: “Towers are selling for 20-30 times tower cash flow, and typically getting over 20 offers per engagement” is a very accurate assessment of the current Tower M&A […]
