Who We Work With

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

Weston Presidio