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Bruce Kropschot

 

 

Bruce Kropschot

Kropschott Financial Services

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

 

Today:

 

     I enjoy seeing in your pictures from the past how people have changed through the years.  Now others can see that I have aged a little

since 1990.  However, unlike most people in the leasing industry, I am with the same company I was with then, although I have traded the snow

of Philadelphia for the sun of Vero Beach, Florida.

 

Kropschot Financial Services is still helping to consolidate the equipment leasing industry; at last count, we have sold over 130 equipment leasing and financing businesses.  Although leasing company acquisition activity has declined, my partner Jim Billings and I are keeping busy.  A significant portion of our recent business has been lease portfolio sales, helping leasing companies obtain investment capital and lines of credit, leasing company valuations and expert witness assignments.  We also have expanded internationally, having recently sold a computer leasing company in Germany and presently working on the sale of a major European lessor in cooperation with one of our European

affiliates.  As any leasing veteran knows, survivors are those that can adapt to changing market conditions.

 

Thanks for the great job you do with Leasing News; I love the new HTML format.

 

Bruce Kropschot

 

Kropschot Financial Services

116 Estuary Drive

Vero Beach, FL 32963

(772) 234-4544

 

Bruce serves on the Leasing News Advisory Board.  He also is a contributing writer to the Monitor monthly magazine.  In the February, 2003 30^th Year Anniversary edition he wrote about:  “Merger & Acquisition Activity: Where It’s Been---Where It’s Headed.”  

 

Here is the Monitor subscription form: http://www.monitordaily.com/subscrip.shtm

 

Today Kropschott Financial  is located at 116 Estuary Drive Vero Beach, FL. 32963 (772)234-4544 where his company continues as “Advisors in Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Finance.”  He founded the company in 1986.  He has been active in the equipment leasing industry for over 30 years, serving as a senior executive of three large leasing company.  Kropschot Financial Services started with the arrangement of the sale of Colonial Pacific Leasing from Roseburg Lumber to Pitney Bowes, and since then has arranged over 130 equipment leasing and specialty finance businesses and numerous portfolios.  The firm also arranges lease funding, subordinated debt and equity for leasing companies and performs business valuations. He has served on the Board of Directors of ELA, EAEL, UAEL and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation.