DCF is a broker-dealer providing a collaborative platform for independent, like-minded CPAs, sell-side advisors, and investment bankers.
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Become a DCF Affiliate
DCF, LLC provides broker-dealer services to qualified firms and individuals seeking to form or continue an investment banking practice. With our roots in public accounting, we’ve pioneered the concept of enabling CPA firms to add sell-side advisory to the list of critical services they provide to their clients.
Our reputation as a premier broker-dealer for independent sell-side advisors is unsurpassed, and our collaborative, nationwide network of registered representatives is growing.
Learn more about the advantages of affiliating with DCF below.
The DCF Advantage
Break the Billable Hour Paradigm
For many in the accounting or financial services industries, the billable hour is central to their business.
Unfortunately, this approach bases compensation around our most finite resource — time. Offering sell-side advisory services as the registered representative of a broker-dealer enables professionals to expand the services they provide and base their compensation on results.
Join the Network
DCF is a collegial affiliation of experts that share both credibility and insight. We work together to develop best practices, offer support and training, and successfully complete transactions.
All of our Affiliates are financial professionals, including partners in CPA firms, independent sell-side advisors, and investment bankers. Their professionalism drives our culture, which always puts our clients; welfare ahead of all else.
Avoid Start-Up Costs
Obtaining, not to mention maintaining, a Broker-Dealer is a long and burdensome process that ties up significant capital and can take over a year and hundreds of hours of work. And with the enactment of new regulations, it gets more stringent every year.
By joining DCF, you or your firm can avoid this process entirely and begin working on transactions immediately upon receiving the requisite certification for sell-side advisors and investment bankers.
Access our Toolkit
From engagement letters and confidentiality agreements to confidential information memoranda, the legally vetted deliverables that sell-side advisors must construct to complete a transaction can be intimidating.
At DCF, we collaborate and share our documents and data, ensuring that all representatives receive access to up-to-date resources, plus the past materials that have resulted in successful transactions.
Moreover, our representatives have access to the online technology and research services critical to any sell-side advisor or investment banker’s success.
Let Us Handle Regulatory Oversight & Compliance
DCF completes all compliance and regulatory work in-house on behalf of all Affiliates and offers a range of different back-office services based on an affiliate’s needs. We take this responsibility very seriously and seek to protect our representatives from any liabilities relating to compliance.
Build Reputational Equity
Businesses only want to hire experienced sell-side advisors.
With more than four decades of experience maximizing client value across hundreds of closed transactions, you’ll be able to leverage the success of DCF and its Affiliates while maintaining your independence.
DCF and its Affiliates’ history gives prospective clients the confidence that they will receive the best sell-side advisory services available.