Founded on
Lexington Avenue.
A New York-based yacht advisory firm applying investment-banking discipline to private acquisition and the relationships that follow.
A direct-to-buyer model, not a mass listing site.
Lexington connects serious buyers directly with builders and select vessels, replacing the noise of public brokerage with a focused, advised path to ownership.
- No public listings
- Opportunities and new-build allocations are presented directly to qualified buyers, never broadcast to a marketplace.
- Direct builder access
- Established relationships with select builders worldwide surface vessels rarely visible through traditional brokerage channels.
- One accountable advisor
- A senior advisor owns the mandate from first conversation through closing and beyond, the same person on day one and the next transaction.
Three principles, applied to every mandate.
Discretion
Every conversation, and every transaction, is handled with the confidentiality a high-net-worth mandate deserves.
Discipline
Investment-banking rigor applied to diligence, negotiation, and closing, on a timeline that respects the client’s.
Duration
The relationship endures beyond closing: refit planning, resale, and fleet lifecycle advisory for the long term.
Selective relationships. Direct access. Disciplined execution.
Founded on Lexington Avenue in New York City, Lexington was built to bring financial-advisory discipline to a market often shaped by access, relationships, and presentation.
Our philosophy is simple: the right yacht decision starts with alignment. The buyer’s objectives define the search, the diligence, and the path to ownership.
Our direct-to-buyer model connects serious buyers with select builders and limited-production vessels rarely seen through traditional channels, keeping the focus on fit, not inventory.
We work with a deliberately small roster of clients, pairing that access with genuine attention. The posture never changes: discreet, deliberate, and accountable to the client.
Why transaction discipline matters in a yacht purchase.
My background is in investment banking and complex transaction execution. The instinct that runs through Lexington is borrowed from that work: a serious decision is best made on a documented basis, against a clear scope, with diligence that gets the answer rather than confirms the assumption.
Yacht acquisitions are transactions, not listings. They reward the same posture that complex private-market transactions reward elsewhere: defined objectives, qualified counterparties, independent diligence, and a closing process that protects the buyer through to delivery.
That posture is what owners hire Lexington to bring. Whether the buyer is moving from chartering into a first vessel, a family office acting on behalf of a principal, or a repeat owner ordering the next hull from a familiar yard, the work is the same: define the brief, qualify the market, run the diligence, and close cleanly, without theatre.