Value Realization Partners is trusted to deliver results when the stakes are highest.
With decades of experience, we are catalyst for corporate value creation by applying our multi-disciplinary skills in discrete disciplines of corporate finance, operations, engineering, and technology – all at cascading levels detail across a wide breadth of industries.
Our services include Interim Management, Corporate Governance Advisory, Financial and Operational Diligence, M&A and Special Situations Support, Regulatory Consulting, Subject-Matter Expert Witness, and Business Transformation Services.
Steve Chastain, Founder of Value Realization Partners, has 35+ years of global experience and multidisciplinary skills in corporate finance, operations, engineering, and information technology. As a strategic advisor or operating partner, Mr. Chastain brings a unique skillset to assist in managing human and investment capital, as well as inspiring and leading professional staff and executive colleagues to higher level operational and financial performance.
As a trusted advisor and accomplished investor, he has held senior management positions with some of the “World’s Largest,” “Most Admired,” and “Best in Industry” corporations including:
Throughout his career, Mr. Chastain has helped numerous corporate clients identify, capture, and enhance their value, including: Oil & Gas Global Majors, National Oil Companies (NOCs), and more than 50 different Electric & Gas Utilities in the US, Canada, all throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as global gas / LNG players with “Mid-Stream” Inter and Intra-state gas pipeline or Global Industrials with large-scale Infrastructure.
Among numerous engagements, Mr. Chastain has led or participated in ~$120B in Corporate M&A, including cross border and multi-jurisdictional transactions as well as several foreign privatizations. In addition to large corporate stock-for-stock type mergers, he has advised Ministries of Energy abroad on a variety of strategic issues such as creation of a National Grid, Privatizations, and Strategies related to global trade of energy commodities.
Within the United States, Mr. Chastain has advised US Corporate Boards and their C-Suite Management under retained Master Services Agreements on complex matters such as: targeted acquisitions, spin-outs, capital allocations, enterprise-wide technology deployments, strategic defense, bear-hugs, capital re-structuring, and NewCo formation of new corporate entities including the first Energy REIT in North America.
