Every founder's journey is shaped by defining moments. Some are planned, others arrive unexpectedly. We work with founder-led businesses in marketing services, technology and data across four areas, whether you are building value, selling, acquiring or raising capital.
Strategic advice to help you build a stronger, more valuable business. We help founders sharpen positioning, improve profitability, strengthen financial insight and bring experienced support around the board table.
Founder-led businesses that have reached a point where they need more structure, sharper positioning or stronger performance, whether or not a transaction is on the horizon.
Partner-led advice for shareholders considering a sale, from preparation through to completion. We stay close at every step so you can keep running the business while the process runs.
Shareholders considering a sale, either now or in the next few years, who want the right outcome rather than simply the highest headline valuation.
Buy-side advice for businesses growing through acquisition. Most acquisition strategies are too passive, so we start with the strategy and the brief, then create opportunities rather than waiting for them to come to market.
Founders, management teams and investors with the ambition to acquire but limited internal M&A capacity to run the process.
Capital raising advice for early-stage and scaling founders. We help you prepare the model and the story, define the right investor universe, then support introductions, negotiations and completion.
Founders raising seed, pre-Series A and Series A capital who need more than investor access, particularly where the growth plan or the investor story needs sharpening.
Most founders arrive with a question rather than a service in mind. This is the quickest way to work out where to begin.
Still not sure? The M&A Value Assessment takes two minutes and shows you how your business measures up against the factors buyers care about most.
We are a boutique advisory. Every engagement is led by a partner, and our team have built and run businesses themselves.
We work in marketing services, technology and data. That focus means we know the buyers, the acquirers and the investors in these sectors, and we understand how value is actually created and assessed in them.
You work with the same senior people from first conversation to completion. Nothing is handed down to a junior team once the engagement begins.
Selling is one option we help you prepare for, not a requirement. Much of our work is helping founders build a stronger business, whether that leads to a sale, an acquisition, an investment, or simply a better company.
Corporate finance is the work around a transaction: whether to do one at all, how to prepare the business for it, who the right counterparty is, and what the terms should be. M&A advisory, mergers and acquisitions, is the part of that work concerned with buying and selling companies. Depending on who is describing it, the same work is called corporate finance advisory, M&A advisory services or M&A consultancy. It is the same work.
We act for the shareholders. We start with what the shareholders want from a sale, prepare the business and its numbers, identify the acquirers most likely to value it, run the process and negotiate the structure and the terms, so you can keep running the company while the process runs.
We act for the acquirer. We start with the acquisition strategy and the brief, then approach the businesses that fit it, including businesses that are not for sale when we call.
Our office is at 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF. London is where we work from, not a limit on who we work for.
We work with founder-led businesses across the United Kingdom, in marketing services, technology and data. That focus, rather than the postcode, is why we know the buyers, the acquirers and the investors in these sectors.
Corporate finance covers the money decisions around a business: what it is worth, how to grow its value, how to fund it, and how to sell or buy one. We advise on all four.
They overlap. Investment banking usually means large, listed transactions. Corporate advisory covers the same work for private, founder-led companies, which is who we act for.
It varies with the size and complexity of the work, and typically combines a retainer with a success fee. We set out what an engagement involves and what it costs before you commit to anything.
Sell side means we act for the owner selling, finding the right buyer and the right terms. Buy side means we act for the acquirer, finding and approaching targets. We do both.
Earlier than most do. The things that lift a valuation, recurring revenue, client spread and a team that runs without you, take time to build. Starting early is what creates the choice.
Our office is at 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF, and we advise founder-led businesses across the United Kingdom, not only in London.
If you would like an informal conversation about where you are and what comes next, we would be glad to hear from you.