The Spartan Group is an investment bank based in Pasadena, California with an office also in San Francisco. Founded in 2002, the firm offers services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and private equity placement, fairness opinions, valuations, mezzanine financing, and management buyout and recapitalization transactions. The firm caters to the automotive and heavy equipment, parking management and technology, infrastructure and industrial, food and beverage, consumer product and retail, and tech-enabled business services industries.