— The practice
Five disciplines.
One standard.
Engagements are bespoke, often confidential, and always structured around the principal’s most consequential decisions. We take a limited number each quarter, and staff every one with principals.
Strategic Business Advisory
Long-horizon counsel for founders and boards navigating inflection moments — from product-market reset to category creation.
Engage / 02Capital & Growth Consulting
Architecting capital structures, growth thesis, and investor narratives that unlock the next decade of value.
Engage / 03Risk Assessment
A disciplined lens on operational, market, and strategic risk — surfacing the few decisions that matter most.
Engage / 04Market Intelligence
Proprietary research and signal synthesis across emerging markets, sectors, and competitive landscapes.
Engage / 05Corporate Strategy
From M&A diligence to portfolio rationalization — clarity for the boardroom, conviction for the team.
Engage— How an engagement begins
Five steps, in order.
Introduction
A private conversation, usually an hour, with no material exchanged. We establish what the decision actually is and whether we are the right counsel for it. Roughly half of these conclude with a referral elsewhere.
Mutual confidentiality
Before anything substantive is shared in either direction, a mutual non-disclosure agreement is executed and, where the engagement warrants it, a portal account is opened for you under the same terms.
Diagnostic
Two to four weeks of primary work: the numbers as they are, the interviews the business has not run, and an honest statement of what we do not yet know. It concludes with a written view and a scope.
Mandate
A defined engagement with named people, a fixed fee and a stated decision it is meant to serve. We take a limited number each quarter and decline work we cannot staff with principals.
Standing counsel
Most relationships continue past the mandate that began them. The firm’s average client tenure is nine years, which is the figure we are most protective of.
— By invitation
When the stakes are consequential,
the counsel should be private.
We accept a limited number of new engagements each quarter. A first conversation carries no obligation on either side, and nothing substantive is exchanged before mutual confidentiality is in place.
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