Consulting Service
Private Equity
Private Equity
Providing unmatched expertise across every phase of the dealmaking journey.
Our Experience & Impact
2,000+
global private equity consultants
50%+
$500+ million buyout transactions globally since 2000
Private equity is in our DNA. We are the world’s leading private equity consulting firm— with a global practice more than three times the size of our nearest competitor. PE comprises about one-third of our global business, having grown eightfold in the last 15 years. Our team of more than 2,000 private equity consultants serves clients globally, providing essential guidance on strategy, sourcing, due diligence, post-acquisition value creation, exit planning, and institutional investor strategy. Our depth of expertise and strong market positioning have played a pivotal role in more than half of $500 million–plus buyout transactions globally since 2000.
We partner with you throughout the entire investment cycle. Ensuring you have the right investment thesis and winning approach strategy, we help focus your deal generation and sector screening process. Post-acquisition, we support the pursuit of rapid returns by developing strategic blueprints for acquired companies, leading workshops that align management with strategic priorities, and directing focused initiatives.
We have helped the leading institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds develop top-performing investment programs across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure asset classes. As investors ourselves, we leverage our expertise to expand your participation in direct investing opportunities. Proprietary data tools, such as OPEXEngine, and Pyxis, reveal key insights and boost our best-in-class capabilities.
The private equity landscape is being reshaped by myriad forces: artificial intelligence, the rise of virtual sales, the omnipresence of digital and rapidly evolving web3 capabilities, a renewed focus on talent, and, most notably, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing. Leading private equity firms are meeting demand for more sustainable, socially conscious corporate behavior, weaving ESG into all operations—and gaining market share in the process.
Amid these shifts, private equity continues to supersize, with larger funds doing larger deals. With a deep bench, proven expertise, and state-of-the-art advanced analytics tools, we can help you navigate these changes and achieve superior results.
AI in Private Equity
AI is a transformational technology for alternative investors and their portfolio companies and will increasingly become table stakes to maintain competitiveness. We can help you unlock AI’s full potential across the PE life cycle, including:
• Sharper diligence. We help investors assess how AI could shape a target’s competitive advantage while also identifying risks around disruption, data readiness, and execution. This leads to higher conviction in a business’s full potential and smarter investment decisions.
• Stronger portfolio performance. We partner with portfolio companies to embed AI across their value chain, driving topline growth through product development and commercial excellence and expanding margins through intelligent automation and operational efficiency.
• More efficient investor operations. We help LPs and GPs apply AI across their internal operations and workflows, strengthening and streamlining investment processes, knowledge management, and back-office functions while enabling greater focus on higher-value insight generation and strategic decision making.
Real Outcomes
We’ve helped PE funds and their portfolio companies apply an AI lens to potential investments, with strong results, including alerting a fund that a potential acquisition’s seemingly state-of-the-art AI tool faced serious competition and helping create new AI-fueled revenue streams in portfolio companies.
How We Help
We’ve worked with investors and management teams to build generative and agentic AI into virtually every facet of their business, including internal fund operations, initial target screening, portfolio company performance, and more.
