Private Equity & Growth Capital Advisory
We advise sponsors, corporate groups and management teams on private-equity and growth-capital transactions, structured around the strategic thesis and long-term value creation.
Our approach.
We advise sponsors, corporate groups and management teams on private-equity and growth-capital transactions — from platform build-out to majority sales and secondary opportunities — structuring each mandate around the strategic thesis, the alignment of interests and long-term value creation.
Private-equity and growth-capital transactions bring together very different stakeholders — founding families, management teams, financial sponsors, corporate acquirers, lenders and existing minority investors. Each one arrives with a distinct decision framework, and the quality of the transaction depends on how coherently those frameworks are reconciled around a single deal architecture.
We work on that architecture. From the initial framing — objectives of the current shareholders, ambitions of the management, appetite of the investor community — we prepare the equity story, the deal structure, the governance framework and the documentation programme. The goal is to enter execution with a plan that all parties can support, and to preserve that plan under negotiation pressure.
Our mandates typically cover growth-capital rounds with a minority or majority investor, buy-and-build platform strategies, partial cash-outs alongside re-investment, sponsor-led secondaries and pre-sale preparation. We coordinate the transaction with the company’s legal, tax and audit advisers, and with the investor’s own workstreams.
- Corporate groups and mid-caps considering equity partners
- Sponsors and management teams
- Family offices and eligible institutional investors
- Founding families preparing a partial or total transition
- Growth capital
A profitable company accelerating growth, international expansion or a targeted M&A programme, opening its capital to a minority or majority investor.
- Partial liquidity for founders
Founders arranging a partial cash-out alongside a re-investment, so they can crystallise value while remaining engaged.
- Buy-and-build platform
Sponsors and management teams building a platform through selective acquisitions, requiring a coherent capital structure across successive deals.
- Sponsor-led secondary or continuation
Sponsors reorganising an existing position through a secondary transaction or a continuation vehicle.
- Scale
- Mid-market European growth capital and minority / majority equity transactions.
- Timing
- Typically several months from mandate to closing, depending on complexity and counterparties.
- Geography
- Continental European corridors with recurring activity across France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Monaco; selective UK, MENA and transatlantic exposure.
- Equity story, valuation framework and investor targeting
- Deal structuring, governance and shareholder-agreement design
- Coordination of due diligence and closing
- Management-package design and alignment of interests
- Post-deal governance framework
- 01Assessment
We frame the objectives, valuation lens and preferred structure with existing shareholders and management, and identify the type of investor to engage.
- 02Preparation
We build the confidential information memorandum, financial model and data room, and prepare management for investor interactions.
- 03Engagement
We approach the selected investor community under confidentiality and orchestrate the process from first meetings to indicative offers.
- 04Execution
We coordinate negotiations, due diligence, definitive documentation, financing and closing with the company’s counsel and auditors.
- Coherent deal architecture
Structure, governance and documentation are designed together, so trade-offs are made explicitly and consciously at the design stage.
- Aligned stakeholders
Management package, board composition and shareholder rights framed to serve the shared strategic thesis.
- Discipline under pressure
We defend the plan during negotiation and support decision-making when the process is stressed.
- Post-deal readiness
The governance and reporting framework is designed to work from day one after closing.
- Financial
We coordinate with the company’s CFO, financial due-diligence providers and, where relevant, debt-financing advisers.
- Legal
Definitive documentation, shareholders’ agreements and reps & warranties are prepared and negotiated by qualified external legal counsel.
- Tax
Structuring, management-package design and cross-border tax matters are addressed with qualified tax counsel.
- Governance
We support the design of the board, reserved matters, information rights and reporting rhythm.
- Integrated advisory
One team keeps the strategic thesis, structuring and execution consistent from the first framing to closing.
- Curated investor community
We prefer a focused, well-briefed process, engaging investors selected on strategic fit as well as capacity.
- Multi-instrument capability
Equity is coordinated with private-debt, bond-structuring and securitization capabilities when the deal calls for a blended structure.
- Established businesses ready for a structured equity partner.
- Shareholders preparing a partial cash-out or governance evolution.
- Management teams with a credible growth or build-up thesis.
- Pre-revenue ventures without an institutional track record.
- Turnaround situations requiring immediate operational takeover.
- Shareholders unwilling to accept institutional governance standards.
- Every mandate is scoped to the company’s size, jurisdiction and shareholder composition.
- Do you advise on minority or majority transactions?
- Both. Growth-capital rounds are often minority; buy-outs and platform build-outs are typically majority. Structure, governance and documentation are calibrated accordingly.
- How do you approach management packages?
- We design them with qualified tax and legal counsel to align management with long-term value creation, calibrated to the sector, the plan and the governance framework.
- Can the deal include debt financing?
- Yes. Where a blended structure is relevant, we coordinate with our private-debt, bond-structuring and, where appropriate, securitization capabilities.
- Do you support post-deal governance?
- We prepare the governance framework as part of the transaction and remain available to support the first reporting cycles when the client wishes.
- How confidential is the process?
- Investor engagement is conducted under signed non-disclosure agreements, with tiered access to information and controlled communication with third parties.