This is the work of running investments and deals, from origination to execution, when your team needs more capacity or a specific skill for a stretch. You bring someone in around a busy pipeline, a fund that’s scaling, or a mandate that needs experienced hands without a permanent hire.
When to hire an external consultant
The pipeline is fuller than the team can cover, and deals will slip without another experienced person on them.
You need a specific capability, a sector or a deal type, that you don’t want to hire permanently for.
A gap has opened and someone has to keep the deals and the portfolio moving now
Typical activities
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Sourcing and screening opportunities against the mandate, and killing the ones that don’t fit early.
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Running deal execution: modelling, diligence coordination, structuring, getting to committee.
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Building the investment memos and the numbers the IC actually needs to decide.
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Working with portfolio companies on the value-creation and reporting side.
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Keeping the process moving so nothing stalls between origination and close.
Our members specialised in this service come from PE and VC funds, investment banking, and corporate finance and M&A boutiques. We look for people who’ve run deals through committee end to end, and who slot into a fund’s rhythm without needing to be run themselves.
“I like the pragmatic, fast and relatively cost effective way Sweav enables NewPort to get in flexible support on deals and value creation.”
“We frequently work with Sweav, as their model enables us and our portfolio companies to get exactly the right expertise, at the right capacity, at the right time, to accelerate our fundraising process.”
