FOR CLOSELY HELD INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES, THEIR OWNERS, AND THEIR FINANCE TEAMS
What is truly surplus capital, and how do I optimize it?
What is my capital position, and what will it support?
Who can handle the fragmentation of my financial services?
Leather Apron orchestrates across the company, accountants, capital providers, and counterparties, ensuring that the Owner and finance team have complete command of the landscape.
Our clients are curious, demand increased profits with mitigated risk, and reject complacency. They are the Leather Apron Class. Hardworking, unprivileged, owner-operated.
A hundred years ago this came with a board seat, and the banker held it. Thirty years ago it came as a deck, a fee, and a departure. Now it belongs to the owner. It took several years and a few choice clients to figure out how.
One independent firm, working directly for the Company. Beside the Owner and the Finance Team, focused on the risks particular to the business. Always learning. Built to continually serve and inform. No tiers, no salaries, no commissions.
We’re not CFOs and don’t ever want to be; Leather Apron was designed to fill a gap both the Owner and CFO lacked in their financial dealings. With a rare blend of industry, capital market, and portfolio management expertise, everything we bring to the table complements the CFO, making their daily work ever more powerful to the bottom line.
Counterparty intelligence runs through the work: knowing what the other side of the table actually wants, long before meeting them.
Leather Apron works for milestones. Paid for outcomes achieved, not for hours spent. Anything charged upfront is modest, delivers substantive initial analysis, and defines clear milestones and deliverables.
A few clients at a time, each one completely.