Case Study for Real Estate Private Equity

Written by: Roger Threlfall A $100bn AUM, US real estate private equity firm, headquartered in New York, had spent the last few years diversifying their client base by growing their international presence. They had hired senior fund raisers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. This process had delivered positive results in some geographies,…

Case Study for Real Estate

Written by: Ben Ingram & Samantha Williams Our client was a well-established European Real Estate investor and asset manager, with their HQ in the Nordics but with interests throughout the Continent. The business had grown considerably over the last decade through M&A and, as a result, became a group with separate national entities.  The benefit…

Case Study for Portfolio Companies

Written by Maria Naumceska and Jasmina Kalin Our client was a global leader in natural Soda Ash production, sought to maintain and extend its leadership in production volumes, quality, supply chain reliability, innovation, safety, and environmental standards. The company had invested nearly $2 billion in its production assets, resulting in the production of over 5…

Case Study for Fixed Income

Case Study for Fixed Income

Case Study for Fixed IncomeWritten by Alex Drummond Armstrong International were approached by a core client, a leading Global Investment Bank, to assist in performing a review of their flow credit operation in Europe. The project would entail the provision of an in depth comparative analysis the equivalent businesses in the street, on the back…

Case Study for Energy Transition & Infrastructure Team

Case Study for Infrastructure & Energy TransitionWritten by: Hugo Clark Our client is a world-leading independent long-term investor, developer and manager of large, complex infrastructure projects. The firm now operates across Australia, North America & Asia, with < 75 assets under management worth more than $50 billion.  The firm specialises in PPP greenfield development, across…

Case Study for Credit Team

Case Study for Credit  Written by: Georgie Mernagh Our client is a $1.5 trillion US Private Equity and Private Credit fund. They already had an established $10bn US Direct Lending business and were looking to hire a Head of Private Debt to launch the European strategy.  Our relationship with the Global Head of Private Equity &…

Selling from the Sell Side. A turning point or the end of the road?

Selling from the Sell Side. A turning point or the end of the road?

“The times they are a-changin’’ wrote Bob Dylan in 1964.  And he was right, course – they’d been changing before, and they seem to have continued to do so ever since. As humans, we are in the somewhat unique position both of being  largely responsible for the existence of the ‘a-changes’ while, nevertheless, also needing,…

Portfolio Hiring: The Overlooked Competitive Advantage for PE & VC Firms

Portfolio Hiring: The Overlooked Competitive Advantage for PE & VC Firms

When it comes to building high-performing companies, both private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors know that talent is the ultimate differentiator. Yet, many firms still take a reactive approach to hiring—waiting until a leadership gap appears before scrambling to fill it.This mindset is a missed opportunity. The best firms treat portfolio hiring as…

In Praise of the Tax Loophole: A Love Letter to the Business Expense

In Praise of the Tax Loophole: A Love Letter to the Business Expense

Having watched yesterday’s chancellor’s statement, I felt sorry that she had nowhere to go except to diminish the disadvantaged. For the Labour party to be doing this is extraordinary. There are 12 million small businesses in the UK and most of them are, from a tax point of view,  stitched up super tight but I do…