EES VALUE ADVISORY
In our value advisory business, we offer across entrepreneurial and special situations:
1. Executive and managerial mandates
As part of our clients’ executive management team, our directors lead the turnaround, incubation and scale-up of our clients’ companies or a specific business initiatives by taking on its day-to-day operational responsibilities. We further assist in M&A transactions and principal investments by joining and leading the management team during divestments or acquisitions such as a buy-to-build strategy. Our work is success-oriented across well-defined milestones, and can be structured on an interim or permanent basis. The roles typically include the ones of the chief executive, chief operating and/or chief restructuring/transformation officer in accordance with our clients’ specific situations and needs.
Our executive and managerial mandates follow a three-stage engagement model, beginning with our role as value-creation architects before transitioning into long-term leadership roles.
2. Advisory mandates
We act in an advisory capacity across the corporate and transaction life cycle, and assist our clients’ in their specific situational needs with
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Strategy development, validation and roadmaps such as value creation, growth and turnaround plans,
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Planning and execution of business transformation initiatives, restructurings, disposals, greenfield build-ups, scale-ups and buy-to-build strategies,
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Investor and due diligence support with commercial and operational focus during M&A transactions and principal investments,
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High-stakes negotiations and conflict resolution in the context of complex corporate matters such as M&A, restructurings, and shareholder disputes through strategic deal facilitation and mediation,
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Effective governance as enabler for performance and value creation, stakeholder alignment and conflict prevention.
This advisory offering builds on our operating track record and expertise in special situations and complex corporate matters, including growth acceleration, turnarounds, M&A and corporate conflicts.
Specialisation and serial track record
We work in an operational and advisory capacity as Executive, NED and Senior Advisor across:
AI & Enterprise Technology:
We specialise in AI and enterprise technology, commercialising and scaling foundational and platform technologies, and disruptive business models across intelligence augmentation, orchestration and workflow automation.
Our expertise spans open-source technologies, compound architectures and AI-native operating systems, underpinned by the enterprise intelligence layer. We apply machine learning, advanced analytics, and generative and agentic AI to decision-making and workflow automation, with an operating track record in banking & capital markets, investment & risk management and enterprise software. We also gained experience in distributed-ledger solutions, blockchain and interoperability.
We lead scale-ups, exits, spinouts, mergers and turnarounds, combining strategic transformation and performance improvement with product and technology development across financial and enterprise ecosystems.
Complex Corporate Matters and Special Situations:
We have further specialised in complex corporate matters, including special situations, operational turnarounds, strategic transformations, high-stakes negotiations and corporate conflict resolution.
Our approach combines extensive negotiation experience with value creation and dispute resolution. Our founder is a CEDR-accredited mediator who has further been trained in governance best practice and industry standards.
Drawing on our experience of complex corporate dynamics, we view effective governance as a key driver of value and performance, particularly in high-growth companies, where alignment between boards, management and stakeholders supports disciplined execution and mitigates conflict.