Strategic intelligence advisory
Our world
Today's business environment is becoming ever more challenging, opaque, and uncertain, as geopolitics and macroeconomics combine to drive change. For investors and companies alike, the rules of the game are shifting rapidly.
Meanwhile, AI is commoditising much of the work that used to create value.
As a result of both dynamics, the demand for information, judgement, and human insight as the key differentiators for business success is increasing sharply.
With a commitment to independence and precision, we provide commercial leaders with the differentiated support they need to navigate this environment and make informed business decisions.
What we do
We provide the world's leading investors and corporates with advice on their most important and sensitive strategic challenges.
The building blocks of that advice come from the insights generated by our bespoke private human intelligence network around the world, as they speak to their contacts.
Leveraging that network, we tell our clients what their stakeholders are really thinking. And drawing on our experience and judgment, we offer counsel on what it means for them.
That advice helps our clients make the best decisions they can, confident that they have turned over every stone.
Our mission
Our mission is to be the one advisor our clients can rely on when they need it most. Our relationships are almost always at the CEO and board level for corporates and with top leadership for investors—the places where the decisions that drive long-term value are being made.
That trust placed in us defines everything we do. We only hire from executives who have been in our clients' shoes and have made major commercial decisions themselves before. We only recruit our human intelligence network from people who are highly connected, senior, reliable, and inquisitive. We only work for blue-chip private sector clients who would be happy to be around a table with each other – which they often are. We only work where we can provide outstanding and enduring value. And we don't tell our clients what they want to hear; we tell them what they need to hear.
Our work
Founded in Sydney, Australia, we operate around the world.
We only accept briefs when clients need to make important decisions.
We advise on:
- • Diligence support on M&A transactions
- • Insider assessments on candidates for critical senior hires
- • Detail on business development opportunities and customer needs
- • Insight on regulatory problems in jurisdictions across the globe
- • Overseas market entry support
- • Insight into business and legal disputes
- • Exit support for portfolio companies
- • Assessment of industry best practice and competitive positioning
- • Understanding of shareholder perspectives and desires
- • Takeover defence
References are always available upon request. We never talk about our clients, but we are happy for them to talk about us.
