
Private Equity
ProfessionaLink works with the largest private equity and investment firms in the world. ProfessionaLink has advised these firms on hundreds of transaction-related projects in a broad array of industries. Investment firms have recently made increasing use of consulting firms to augment internal expertise and capabilities. Our private equity clients seek our guidance for their market assessment, competitive analysis and acquisition due diligence needs because we are able to locate consultants with project expertise, transaction experience, and clear functional capabilities. In the world of private equity where deal timelines are often limited, ProfessionaLink identifies, evaluates and presents firms to our clients – often within 48 hours, and the consulting firms we present are often engaged the same week. Our Private equity clients need consulting firms with the following general characteristics:
- Specialist (industry or functional) expertise
- Dedicated market analysis or business intelligence consulting practice
- Transaction experience (detailed and time sensitive quantitative need)
Corporate
ProfessionaLink assists Fortune 500 clients across a wide variety of verticals and functions. These clients’ needs are often focused on strategy operations IT finance HR marketing & sales M&A and, distribution. Our clients seek expertise outside their normal scope of business activity and when they have limited internal expertise. The seek consultants with significant depth of expertise, and often engage firms for extended engagements. Our Fortune 500 clients need consulting firms with the following general characteristics:Specialist (industry or functional) expertiseDedicated market analysis or business intelligence consulting practiceExperience working with corporate client
Experts and Research
Our clients include consulting firms, small private equity firms and corporations. They lever our network of thousands of specialists, academics, retired executives and other specialists who can provide guidance in short 2-5 day consulting projects.
Our partnership with leading aggregators of market research from more than 300 sources enables clients to purchase syndicated research in an anonymous setting.
Our Clients
Advent International
AEA Investors
Align Capital
Anchorage Capital
Apax Partners
Bain Capital
Baker Capital
BBK Capital Partners
Blackstone Group
BMO Nesbitt Burns
Carlyle Group
Charger Investments
Cinven Citigroup Private Equity
Clayton Dubilier & Rice
Court Square Capital
Edgeview Partners
Elliott Management
Francisco Partners
Goldman Sachs
GTCR Golder Rauner
Hellman & Friedman
HIG Capital
Investcorp
KKR
KKR/Capstone
Lindsay Goldberg
Littlejohn & Co
Madison Dearborn Partners
Oaktree Capital
Onex Corporation
The Riverside Company
Sageview Partners
Silver Lake Partners
Solace Capital
Temasek
THL
Vestar Capital Partners
Warburg Pincus
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
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