Private equity

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While there is plenty of opportunity in private equity, there’s also no shortage of competition. The flood of private capital in recent years continues to raise the performance bar, making attractive targets increasingly difficult to find. In this crowded, bullish environment, finding real value can be more challenging than ever for both buyers and sellers. It’s no longer enough to simply focus on traditional means of creating value. Players must develop their unique equity story – creating a compelling narrative of why they should invest in a target, what to expect over the medium to long term and why they should pay more than anybody else to win a deal.

We help you act quickly and creatively to seize the most promising opportunities. We focus on identifying the right valuation levers, developing distinctive equity stories that build investor confidence, while at the same time highlighting downside risks and how to manage them, paving the way for strong performance.

As a leading global strategic advisor to private equity, we support over 250 transactions per year. We help clients maximize value across the deal lifecycle to ensure the success of every transaction and providing support to maximize value post trade. Our projects are tailored to each situation with leading teams of partners, consultants, and external industry experts from our open consulting network coming together to provide an optimal set up for each transaction.

Whether you’re a private equity or infrastructure house searching for value in a buy or sell situation, or an organization looking to expand your portfolio to find new growth, we understand the challenges you face and have the network, experience and executional capabilities to help you move fast, push further and realize value where others can’t.

How we help

Investment Strategy

Setting the right strategy and rationale to help you identify which targets to invest in, and how best to communicate with them to ensure a mutually beneficial investment process.

Target Identification

Developing target lists of potential investment opportunities to help you develop – and gradually refine – a powerful equity story supported with compelling evidence.

Transaction Phase

Providing you with the due diligence support you need to develop the equity story and to make a go/no-go decision on a specific deal – whether commercial, technical or operational.

Post-transaction

Supporting you in detailing and implementing various short term improvement plans immediately after a transaction.

Performance Improvement

Helping you implement and realize improvement initiatives throughout the period of your ownership.

Exit Phase

Helping you build a compelling, substantiated and fact-based equity story when it is time for you to divest an asset.

Investment Strategy

Setting the right strategy and rationale to help you identify which targets to invest in, and how best to communicate with them to ensure a mutually beneficial investment process.

Target Identification

Developing target lists of potential investment opportunities to help you develop – and gradually refine – a powerful equity story supported with compelling evidence.

Transaction Phase

Providing you with the due diligence support you need to develop the equity story and to make a go/no-go decision on a specific deal – whether commercial, technical or operational.

Post-transaction

Supporting you in detailing and implementing various short term improvement plans immediately after a transaction.

Performance Improvement

Helping you implement and realize improvement initiatives throughout the period of your ownership.

Exit Phase

Helping you build a compelling, substantiated and fact-based equity story when it is time for you to divest an asset.

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TEAM MEMBERS

Our private equity consulting team ensure clients are supported across the deal life cycle – and beyond. We make a transformational difference for our clients, helping them to identify the right deals that will generate superior returns.

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Jonas Fagerlund

Partner & Head, Global Private Equity Practice

Jonas is a Partner at Arthur D. Little's Stockholm office. He leads our Global Private Equity Team. His primary areas of experience are strategy development, M&A analysis (including commercial due diligences) and its resulting integration, cost and capital efficiencies, and sourcing cost reductions. Jonas' main industrial focus areas are electronics, telecoms, private equity and health care.

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Guillaume Picq

Partner, Paris

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Wojciech Świercz

Partner

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Piotr Baranowski

Managing Partner, Warsaw

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