Industry Experience
Buyout · Growth · Infrastructure · Credit

Private Equity

LPs no longer accept anecdote-led management diligence. We replace it with continuous bench telemetry across the deal pipeline, the portfolio and the exit window.

We act as the embedded leadership-intelligence function for global GPs across buyout, growth, infrastructure and private credit. The firm runs continuous bench telemetry across deal-stage management diligence, portfolio CEO/CFO rotations, value-creation operator pools and exit-window leadership re-scoring.

Global Practice Lead — Private Equity
New York · London (joint)
THE EVIDENTIARY RECORD
324
PE-house engagements

Across mega-buyout, mid-market, growth, infrastructure and private credit GPs.

16
Mega-fund clients

Including 8 of the top-15 GPs by 2024 dry powder.

1,720
Portfolio-CEO assessments

Continuous bench scoring across portfolio companies, refreshed monthly under live mandates.

287
Operating partner appointments

OP placements scored against thesis-validation cadence and exit-window leadership re-pricing.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

324 mandates across four regions.

We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.

Asia-Pacific
78
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Sydney · Singapore · Hong Kong · Tokyo

Signature

ASEAN buyout, Japanese carve-outs, ANZ infrastructure.

EMEA
124
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

London · Paris · Frankfurt · Stockholm

Signature

FTSE-adjacent take-privates, Nordic growth, German Mittelstand carve-outs.

Americas
102
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

New York · San Francisco · Toronto

Signature

Mega-buyout, infrastructure, growth-equity and US private-credit GPs.

Middle East & Africa
20
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Riyadh

Signature

Sovereign-fund partnerships, GCC growth, Africa-focused PE.

SECTOR CAPABILITIES

What we are calibrated to deliver.

Deal-stage management diligence

Pre-close management assessments delivered in 7–10 business days under NDA-by-default discretion.

100-day plan instrumentation

CEO and CFO bench scoring tuned to value-creation plan execution within the first 100 trading days.

Operating partner pool

Curated, continuously refreshed inventory of 1,200+ operating partners scored against thesis-validation track record.

Exit-window leadership re-pricing

Successor scoring against IPO-grade governance, strategic-buyer fit and continuation-vehicle leadership requirements.

SECTOR RISK VECTORS

The exposure pattern we price into every slate.

Thesis-fade leadership lag

Failure to re-price the CEO bench within 9 months of thesis fade is the leading indicator of exit multiple compression.

Portfolio-level CFO churn

Concurrent CFO transitions across 15%+ of a portfolio triggers LP advisory committee scrutiny.

Continuation vehicle scrutiny

LPACs now demand independent leadership assessment for continuation vehicle transactions.

DPI defensibility

Distribution-to-paid-in performance increasingly attributed to operator-bench quality in LP re-up decisions.

SIGNATURE MANDATES

Anonymised by code; defensible by record.

Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.

PE-EU-026
EMEA
Mega-fund · Pre-close management diligence on £4.2bn take-private

Identified CEO derailment risk 11 days pre-close; LPAC approved replacement-conditional close; 22-month exit at 2.7× MOIC.

PE-NA-019
Americas
Growth GP · Portfolio-wide CFO bench review

Refreshed CFO benches across 47 portfolio companies; pre-empted 6 forced replacements and prevented 4 covenant trips.

PE-AP-011
Asia-Pacific
ASEAN buyout · CEO replacement at portfolio asset

Replacement CEO sourced and onboarded in 38 days; preserved exit window and delivered 2.1× MOIC inside fund hold period.

PE-ME-005
Middle East
Sovereign-fund GP partnership · Operating partner cohort build

Built 24-person OP cohort across infrastructure, healthcare and consumer; cohort now governs 11 portfolio companies.

SKILLS-MATRIX ANCHORS

The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.

Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.

ILPA Principles 3.0 · ILPA Continuation Fund Guidelines

LP-facing governance expectations encoded into portfolio-CEO scoring.

SFDR Article 8 / Article 9 · SEC Private Fund Adviser Rules

GP-level disclosure and governance overlays in management-diligence assessments.

AICPA SOC 1 Type II · ISAE 3402

Portfolio-level controls attestation as CFO bench requirement.

AIFMD II · Investment Advisers Act 1940

GP regulatory regime encoded into firm-level governance attestation.

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Brief the Private Equity practice lead.

Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.