Retainer
Alongside you, over time
A defined monthly commitment for leaders navigating a period of change: a transaction on the horizon, a shareholder matter, a growth phase. Senior counsel on call, with the context that only continuity builds.
Working with us
Engagements shaped around the work, not the other way round.
Every engagement is led by a principal and scoped in writing before we begin. The commercial structure follows the nature of the work.
Engagement models
Four ways we work.
Project
A defined piece of work
A scoped engagement with a beginning, an end, and a deliverable: a strategic review, a readiness assessment, support through a negotiation. Priced before we start, delivered by a principal.
Success-based
Aligned to the outcome
For defined commercial outcomes, part of our fee can be contingent on the result, agreed case by case. We only propose this where the outcome is genuinely in our influence, and yours.
Readiness Check
A fast, focused review
A review of your business’s readiness for a raise or a sale, delivered as a high-impact recommendations document once the analysis is done. Quick turnaround, economical, and boardroom ready.
How an engagement runs
The same discipline we bring to your business, applied to ours.
Conversation
One call with a principal. You describe the situation; we tell you honestly whether we can help.
Scope
A short written scope: what we will do, what it costs, and what you will hold in your hands at the end.
Work
Principal-led delivery. Weekly contact. No juniors learning on your fee, no surprises in the invoice.
Decision
You end with a clear recommendation and a choice: act on it yourself, or engage us to run it with you.
Principles
Three commitments, every engagement.
Your decisions stay yours
We prepare, we support, we sit beside you in the negotiation. Decisions on price, terms, and direction always remain with you as the owner.
We say the uncomfortable thing
If your valuation expectation is wrong, or your dispute position is weaker than you think, you will hear it from us first, in private, early.
Confidentiality is absolute
No client names in our marketing without written consent. Ever. It is why our case studies are anonymised, and why our clients talk to us.
Start with the conversation.
Half an hour with a principal, at our invitation. Founders tell us it is time well spent.