Our Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice comprises 200 McKinsey partners who specialize in the industry, supported by more than 200 consultants with extensive experience in each of the geographical zones, activities, and functional areas.
Our expertise covers capital investment firms’ complete spectrum of needs:
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Strategy, organization, risks, and operations
Our work includes global strategy, organization, risk management, operations, and IT systems. We also advise on fundraising and investor relations.
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Investment support
We help our clients acquire a clear view of underlying market trends and their implications to identify and evaluate the investment opportunities open to them. We also conduct due diligence work.
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Portfolio company performance
We work with fund and portfolio company executives to ensure value creation through strategic thinking, by building functional capabilities, such as sales, marketing and pricing, and through programs to create short-term cash, accelerate growth, and improve operations. We also help our clients capture the value created by adopting and implementing superior exit strategies.
We serve more than 200 general partners—including 19 of the world’s top 20 private equity funds—as well as a number of small- and mid-cap funds, over the entire life cycle of their projects. In addition, we serve many limited partners, such as financial institutions, pension funds, foundations, and universities.
In the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region, we work with 14 of the top 15 general partners, with the assistance of our six specialist groups in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Warsaw, and Dubai.