The heavy financial lifting, built for the business owner it was never designed to reach.
Institutional-grade analytical capability, delivered independently, without the conflict, the prohibitive fees, or the minimum revenue requirement.
The problem we were built to solve
Most small industrial business owners are quietly managing the same set of problems: financial services that underperform, fly-by-night broker/advisor/bankers asking for their time with no value to add, capital cost and position that could be sharper, books that aren’t as clean or correct as they need to be, and desire to know the true value of their business, not a multiple guess.
The options available to them have gates, beginning with competency limitations, minimum revenue thresholds, fee structures built for larger companies, and ‘Advisors’ who parachute in with a deck with no value to add.
There was no comprehensive, independent solution that covered the full financial picture — capital advisory, financial services management, coordinated accounting services — under one roof, with one aligned interest. We built it.
What Leather Apron covers
We work across the full financial picture of a business — not as a referral network, but as a single practitioner with real expertise in each area.
Capital advisory
Deep seated advisory partner that works alongside Owner and CFO to maximize risk adjusted performance. Modeling, valuation, and analysis built from 15 years and $6B of capital markets transactions.
Financial Services Management
Managing banking, credit, liquidity, interest rate risk, investments, and life insurance. Saving countless hours, reducing costs, and enhancing after tax yields.
Managed Accounting Services
Coordinating a comprehensive suite of accounting, tax, consulting, and assurance services. Reporting and quality meet the demands of an institutional capital provider.
Who this is for
Small, closely held industrial businesses — manufacturing, services, contractors, distributors. Owners who are focused on running their operation and want a financial partner who can handle everything their business needs that they can’t.
Resourceful owners. Driven owners. Owners who define what the next level looks like for their business and want help getting there.
If the fit is right, geography is not a constraint. Leather Apron uses a hybrid in-person/virtual approach, our practitioners travel to meet Clients and see their operations. Finance is a Science, properly navigating geographical regulations and constraints is an Art.
Halden Kaneb
Fifteen years across commercial lending, securities, and M&A finance. Approximately $6B in total transaction volume spanning credit, capital markets, and wealth management. CFA candidate. MBA, University of Denver. B.S. Financial Services Management, Johnson & Wales University, summa cum laude.
Navy veteran. Entrepreneurial by instinct and by necessity. Closer in mindset to the business owners he serves than to the institutional professionals he left behind.
Castle Pines, CO. Serving clients in person and virtually.
Start a conversation
If this sounds like what your business has been missing, reach out directly. No intake form, no discovery call script — just a direct conversation about whether there’s a fit.