In seeking to rise to the current challenges, private equity is undergoing a shift in strategy—from one founded on financial engineering to one founded on tangible performance improvement, profitability, and bottom-line growth. Increasingly, investment managers are reassessing their strategies for assets already under management to ensure acceptable returns for investors; investors, for their part, are demanding proven operational expertise to support value creation through future rounds of investment. For private equity companies, it will be paramount to identify, screen, value, and manage companies to ensure that their investment teams can achieve genuine performance improvement prior to exit. Whether through expansion, operational efficiency, organizational effectiveness, or other value levers, access to deep strategic and operational expertise will be an essential value proposition for successful players.

Booz & Company has extensive experience in serving private equity firms in multiple industries and regions, and across the value chain. With our operational consulting heritage, deep industry knowledge, and breadth of functional expertise, we can deliver insight and effect change with the speed that private equity needs, from pre-deal analysis through post-acquisition restructuring strategies to exit.