Advisory
Advisory, done as a disciplined build process.
We work with corporate and institutional clients to structure, arrange, prepare for, and complete individual transactions and to operationalise investment programs. Our practice is traditional advisory, but with better instrumentation and more systematic preparation.
Structuring
- Support clients in arranging optimal transaction structures, including appraisals, valuation and modelling.
- Support clients in identifying, targeting, screening, and triage of the most appropriate counterparties globally, including leading private equity and credit fund managers, corporate strategic investors, banks, and others.
Readiness build-out
- Define the informational universe related to the transaction and counterparty expectations, at parent and project company levels, as needed.
- Track what exists, identify what is provisional, track what is missing, and watch for what cannot yet exist.
- Manage a sequenced process so late-stage items are not chased too early.
Diligence & data room structuring
- Document taxonomy and folder architecture aligned to investor expectations.
- Evidence linking: each material point traceable to a source.
- Readable outputs: snapshots and reports for clients and counterparties.
Transaction support
- Identify and approach the most suitable counterparties, using tailored proposals carefully based on each counterparty's known interests.
- Prepare client management team or the counterparty's diligence process, including calls and follow-up cycles.
- Coordinate deliverables and responses and track open items across stakeholders.
- Maintain a clean posture: no over-claiming, no premature exposure.
Program advisory & implementation
Within our transaction advisory work, we support asset managers and program managers in the design and implementation of bespoke institutional-grade investment and trading operations with daily or intra-day transactions. These operations have included the following features:
- Build on algorithmic model outputs (e.g. GTAA and StatArb) to establish controlled, executable workflows that support manager-led execution across accounts and intermediaries.
- Establish overall mandate constraints, pre-trade controls, individual account-level instrument restrictions, and their application across multiple SMAs/vehicles.
- Assist with calculation of daily or other periodic account-specific rebalancing trades based on model outputs, and preparation of respective trade tickets.
- Maintain trade and resulting position data to support exposure management at portfolio and account levels.
- Support trade verification / broker check-out, monthly broker or custodian reconciliation, and client reporting processes.
- Provide bespoke admin support of CTA operations, futures and overlay trading strategy management, performance attribution reporting, client onboarding and scaling across multiple SMAs and accounts.
This work has been applied across a range of contexts, from systematic trading strategies and SMA environments to bank-led allocation programs and multi-institution development initiatives.
Typical start: a short diagnostic to determine what is missing, and in what sequence it can be obtained. Then we build. Contact.