FROM OPPORTUNITY TO EXIT

We help over 50 prominent private equity investors – including advising 8 of the top 10 most active UK buyout investors in the last 5 years – minimise their risk whilst maximising returns. Using all our experience, grit and imagination, we help sponsors build and execute their deal pipeline, support investments throughout their growth, and achieve the best possible exit.

In the last five years, we've advised on over 500 buyouts, investments, follow-on acquisitions and exits.

Challenges we help investors address include:

• Unearthing new opportunities – via direct deal origination, market coverage calls and divestment trackers.
• Execution of buy-side mandates with speed and certainty when processes are competitive.
• Advice through the life of an investment to support value enhancement strategies.
• Achieving better exits – helping our clients present their investments in the best possible light to maximise value on sale or IPO.

WIN: WIN, NOT SO SO

We support management teams through the complexities of any private equity transaction, negotiating terms opposite most of the big names in the market. With more than 500 private equity deals under our belt in the last 5 years, we help management teams secure the best possible management incentive package for themselves whilst protecting the ongoing interests of the company. 

In the past three years, we successfully completed over 40 management advisory mandates.

Challenges we help management teams address include:

• Balancing the right incentives package for them as individuals with the right deal for the growth of the business
• Protections to avoid unfair treatment on departure from the business or when things go wrong
• Helping managers choose the right investor for them - using our extensive market experience and knowledge of different bidders

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MADE-TO-MEASURE ADVICE FOR FOUNDERS

Taking on private equity investment is a pivotal moment for any growth company. We offer straight talking advice, informed by our unrivalled experience on both sides of the table, to help founders choose the right investor as well as secure the right terms.

We have supported more than 70 companies in their raising of private equity financing in the last 5 years.

Recent challenges we’ve helped founders address include: 

• Preparing the business for investor scrutiny, to be "PE ready" 
• Comparing different investment structures and the different types of private equity investors 
• Negotiating a deal on the right terms, and with the right partner