CLIENTS
Business owners
For the people who own or run a business and want the value a private equity firm would create in it, without selling it to one.
The position
A private equity firm makes its return by buying a business and improving it. It examines the business the way a buyer must, decides what would make it worth more, does that work inside the business, and measures the result as what the business would now sell for. The owners and managers of a business can have that work done without a buyer, and keep the value it creates. That is what Wilde Mason does for them.
The work applies whether the business is run day to day by its owner or by a management team, and whether the intention is to keep the business, to sell it in a few years, or to bring in a partner. In each case the business is worth more at the end than at the start, and the people who own it hold that value.
Services for business owners
Private equity playbooks
Wilde Mason examines the business as a buyer would, decides which of the playbooks a private equity firm runs after an acquisition apply to it, and runs them inside the business with the people already there.
Private equity playbooks →Change management
When control of the business is changing hands, when the business has to change direction or shape, or when the owner is preparing to step back, to sell, or to take in capital, Wilde Mason runs that change in a fixed order: control first, then the mandate, then the organisation.
Change management →How we engage
Every engagement begins with a diagnostic conversation. We've done this a long time and we will tell you whether we can help, how, and what the plausible outcomes are.
Diagnostic
Two to four weeks at a fixed fee, with one output: where the business is leaking performance, what it is worth, and a prioritised agenda specific enough to execute without further help. Most engagements start here, and some end here.
Embedded
A senior operator inside the business for a defined term, running the change programme, preparing the decisions, and executing alongside the client's team. Availability runs across the month rather than on appointed days. The output is the result, not a recommendation.
Retained
For owners who want the outside view permanently in the room: a monthly cadence of senior attention covering the operating review, the decisions worth pressure-testing, and access when something moves. The arrangement is structured so that it earns its fee or ends.
Every engagement starts with a diagnostic conversation. We've done this a long time and we will tell you whether we can help, how, and what the plausible outcomes are.
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