Consulting Service
Private Equity
Private Equity
The preferred provider to alternative investors
Our Experience
600+
firm strategy and operations cases
22,000+
due diligence cases
6,500+
PE-backed cases
We are the world’s leading adviser to alternative investors, helping them outperform on returns and impact.
We partner with you throughout the entire investment cycle, focusing your deal generation and sector screening process and building conviction in due diligence to close the right deals. Post-acquisition, we support the pursuit of rapid returns by aligning the leadership team on a future-proof, full-potential strategy. We team with you to develop strategic blueprints for acquired companies and work through to execution to drive top-line growth, margin improvement, and improved strategic positioning of the business. We guide you throughout deal ownership, leveraging the full scope of our experience and expertise across dozens of industries and areas of specialization. And we help you answer critical questions about fund strategy and operations, to ensure you’re positioned to win.
How We Can Help
Due Diligence
Determine a target’s full potential, including its operations and tech, and provide a clear post-acquisition agenda.
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Tech Due Diligence
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The best deal decisions require more than commercial diligence. We assess a company’s software or e-commerce platform to identify opportunities, avoid risk, and determine a target’s full potential.
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Operational Due Diligence
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Our high-impact operational capabilities, state-of-the-art tools, and unrivaled strategy expertise provide everything PE investors need to understand a target's current and future profit potential.
Our Expertise and Approach to Private Equity
Our Expertise and Approach to Private Equity
We work with about 80% of the largest private equity firms in the world and have played a pivotal role in more than half of $500 million–plus buyout transactions globally since 2000. We bring an investor and owner mindset to every engagement, drawing on our experience from more than 22,000 diligence and 6,500 portfolio projects to deliver a perspective that is both pragmatic and visionary, relentlessly focused on a company’s full potential and how to achieve it. Our approach is enabled by a best-in-class ecosystem of traditional and alternative data, proprietary tools, advanced analytics, and cutting-edge AI capabilities. We complement this analytical advantage with the industry's largest and most sophisticated primary research capability, ensuring our clients receive trusted and differentiated investment insights.
Global Private Equity Report 2026
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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.
