Built for companies preparing to enter the public markets.
Belay Global advises companies evaluating a public listing or strategic carve-out to support their next phase of growth. We help founders, CEOs, and boards assess readiness, structure capital strategy, strengthen governance, and pursue public ownership with institutional discipline.
Independent advice. Institutional discipline. Built for the public markets.
Advisory Model
Built for complex public-market transitions.
Belay works alongside sponsors, management teams, and boards from early evaluation through transaction structuring, registration statement process coordination, public-company readiness, and post-listing governance planning.
We are built for complex public-market transitions where structure, sequencing, governance, and execution discipline matter.
Our advisory model gives each engagement senior attention, practical judgment, and focused support from initial assessment through listing and beyond.
Approach
A more controlled path to public ownership.
We bring senior public-market judgment to the decisions that define a transaction: readiness, structure, sequencing, governance, execution planning, and the transition from private growth to public-company discipline.
Going public creates the platform. What leadership does with that platform determines how valuable the company can become.
Network
Senior judgment assembled around each engagement.
Belay brings together senior advisors, public-market professionals, sector specialists, operators, and transaction practitioners.
This network allows Belay to assemble the right advisory resources around each engagement while remaining focused on the strategic decisions that matter most.
The objective is not to create more process. The objective is to help clients make better decisions at critical public-market inflection points.
McKinley Acquisition Corp.
McKinley Acquisition Corp. is Belay’s current advisory mandate, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker MKLY.
Formed to identify and merge with a high-quality private company seeking a disciplined, founder-aligned path to the public markets. McKinley has not identified or entered into substantive discussions with any business combination target.
NASDAQ: MKLY · $172 million held in trust · Listed 2025
McKinley Acquisition Corp. is a separate SEC-registered entity. Belay Global Partners provides strategic advisory services and is not affiliated with McKinley except as expressly disclosed.
Learn More About McKinley →Built for companies with the scale and discipline to be public.
Belay advises private companies that have outgrown the limits of private capital and are evaluating whether a public listing can provide a stronger platform for growth, liquidity, and long-term capital access.
Founder-led or closely held, where control and culture matter.
$100M–$500M in growth capital, liquidity, or balance-sheet flexibility.
Two years of audited financials or a clear path to audit-readiness.
Growing revenue, improving margins, and a credible public-company narrative.
Perspectives on the transition to public ownership.
The Founder CEO’s Public Company Roll-Up Advantage
How a credible public stock can become the currency to acquire revenue, expand multiples, and build the industry platform others failed to see.
Read the Commentary →Pricing for Conviction
Why the right valuation is the foundation of a successful public listing, stronger PIPE demand, lower redemptions, and a healthier post-listing stock.
Read the Commentary →Start with the right conversation.
For companies and sponsors evaluating whether the public markets can support the next phase of growth, liquidity, or strategic flexibility.
A practical assessment of readiness across structure, governance, capital strategy, leadership preparation, and public-market credibility.