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Corporate Strategy
Portfolio direction, growth theses and the hard choices boards tend to defer.
Growth strategy and market entry
Portfolio and capital allocation review
Board strategy offsites
Independent management consultancy
Counsel for the decisions that define a decade.
We advise boards and executive teams on strategy, transactions and transformation, pairing senior partner judgement with evidence that stands up in the boardroom.
- Partner-led on every mandate
- Independent and conflict-free
- Strict confidentiality
38 senior partnersAverage 22 years in industry
Trusted by leadership teams at
- Northwind Capital
- Meridian Health
- Halberd Energy
- Corvane Group
- Atlas Mutual
27yrs
Advising boards and investors
640+
Engagements delivered
$48B
Transaction value advised
94%
Clients who return within three years
Our practices
Six practices. One standard of judgement.
Each practice is led by partners who have run the functions they now advise, so recommendations arrive with the operating detail needed to act on them.
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Mergers & Transactions
Diligence, valuation and integration, from first term sheet to day one hundred.
Commercial due diligence
Valuation and deal structuring
Post-merger integration
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Operational Excellence
Cost, capacity and process redesigned to compound over time, not simply to cut.
Cost transformation
Supply chain resilience
Operating model design
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Digital & Technology
Technology strategy anchored in profit and loss outcomes rather than tooling.
Technology due diligence
Data and AI strategy
Programme recovery
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Leadership & Organisation
Structures, succession and culture designed to hold under pressure.
Executive succession planning
Organisation design
Change leadership
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Risk & Governance
Regulatory readiness and governance frameworks that investors and regulators trust.
Board effectiveness reviews
Regulatory readiness
Enterprise risk frameworks
Every recommendation is tested against the question a board will ask next.Our working principle
How we work
Counsel built on evidence, delivered with conviction.
Small senior teams, a clear point of view from week one, and accountability that continues after the final presentation.
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Diagnose
We establish the facts quickly, from your data, your markets and the people closest to the work.
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Decide
We frame the real choices, quantify the trade-offs and give a recommendation we are prepared to defend.
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Deliver
We stay alongside your executives through implementation, with milestones tied to measurable value.
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Sustain
We build the capabilities your team needs to keep the gains without us.
Selected engagements
Outcomes our clients measure, not just mention.
A sample of recent mandates, shared with client permission and anonymised where required.
Mergers & Transactions
Cross-border acquisition for a specialty insurer
Commercial diligence and a 100-day integration plan across four jurisdictions.
$210Msynergies identified, 86% captured in year one
Operational Excellence
Operating model reset for a regional manufacturer
Network redesign and procurement overhaul delivered alongside the leadership team.
18%reduction in cost to serve in 14 months
Risk & Governance
Board effectiveness review ahead of a listing
Governance framework, committee charters and director onboarding built for public-market scrutiny.
9 wksfrom mandate to investor-ready governance
Our partners
Senior people on every engagement.
Our partners lead the work themselves. Each one embodies a value we hold the whole firm to.
- Integrity
- Rigour
- Discretion
- Partnership
Eleanor Hart
Managing Partner
Integrity
Marcus Bennett
Partner, Transactions
Rigour
Priya Raman
Partner, Digital & Technology
Discretion
Daniel Okafor
Partner, Operations
Partnership
Client perspectives
The measure of advice is what happens next.
What chairs, CEOs and investors say after the engagement ends.
They told us what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to. The integration plan held up line by line through the first year.
Partner attention from the first meeting to the last. Our board finally had one view of the strategy, and the conviction to fund it.
Rigorous, discreet and refreshingly direct. The governance work gave our investors confidence at exactly the moment we needed it.
Start a conversation
Begin with a confidential conversation.
Tell us about the decision in front of you. A partner, not a sales team, will reply.
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A partner reviews your note
Matched to the practice closest to your question.
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An initial call
Forty-five minutes, under mutual confidentiality, at no cost.
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A written proposal
Scope, team, timeline and fees, with no obligation.
Everything you share is held in strict confidence.