Business Performance & Transformation
Private equity firms buy businesses, improve them, and sell them at a higher valuation.
The improvement is what creates the value.
Wilde Mason runs that process for owners who would prefer to capture that value themselves by improving the performance of their business.
Services
Private equity playbooks
Private equity creates its return by improving the businesses it buys, and the methods are known and repeatable. Wilde Mason runs that improvement process inside a small or medium-sized business so that the owner captures the value a buyer would otherwise take.
Read moreChange management
A partner is bought out, a business is acquired, a generation hands over, a cost base has to come down, or a sale is eighteen months away. Wilde Mason runs the change in a fixed order: control first, then the mandate, then the organisation.
Read moreCrisis intervention
Wilde Mason works with boards, investors and shareholders in businesses that are close to failing, where the question is how much value can still be recovered and how quickly it can be done.
Read morePrivate equity structuring
Individuals and small groups who already invest their own capital want a firm around what they do: partners, a written investment process, carried interest and fees, and the ability to take in outside capital. Wilde Mason builds that firm with them.
Read moreClients
Business owners and operators
Businesses that want to capture the value created by private equity firms that buy companies like theirs, or where control, direction or ownership is changing.
Business ownersBoards, shareholders and investors
Boards and investors in a business that is failing, where the question is whether anything can be rescued, how much, and how quickly it can be done.
Boards and investorsInvestment companies
Established investment companies built with their own capital and close co-investors, now running the firm with the discipline outside capital expects.
Investment companiesSenior operators inside the business
Private equity firms do not send analysts to improve the companies they own. They send people who have run businesses, restructured cost bases, rebuilt pricing, and built management teams, and those people stay until the improvement is real.
Wilde Mason works the same way. Its practitioners embed with the client's team, prepare the decisions, carry out the changes, and remain through execution. Where the work can be linked to outcomes, the fee is linked to outcomes.
Inside the business, they run the playbooks a private equity firm runs on a company it has just bought. They go through it as a buyer would, with a buyer's diligence, looking for where more value can be captured than the business is capturing today. Then they make the changes, working alongside the people already there, until the business is one a buyer would pay more for, whether or not it is ever sold.
The framework
Every engagement runs through the same four stages: assess the business the way a buyer would, decide which playbooks apply, execute them inside the business, and measure the result as what a buyer would now pay.
The frameworkEvery 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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