The vehicle is in Luxembourg. The work is in the portfolio.
Many sponsors domicile their funds here and run their companies elsewhere in Europe. When a portfolio company needs an operator, a permanent search is too slow and the plan does not wait.
Where the hold loses its opening months
Sponsors with Luxembourg vehicles tend to meet the same obstacles:
A search eats the start of the hold
A permanent search uses up the opening of the hold, when the plan counts most.
Founder-style reporting
A founder-run company reports as it always has, while the sponsor and its investors expect a different standard straight away.
The portfolio is spread over many countries
An operator needed in one company is not in the sponsor's own team, and nobody local can be spared.
A fixed-term need
A carve-out, a systems rebuild or an integration needs a senior operator on a fixed term and not permanently.
Portfolio companies get an operator within weeks, on a services agreement that runs as long as the hold. An operator can own a defined workstream, hold the seat until a permanent appointment, or show what the company needs before anyone is hired.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Deploying a senior operator inside a portfolio company
- Executing a 100-day plan the moment the deal closes
- Value creation through the hold, not another advisory report
- Building reporting, systems and management credibility before an exit
- Operational diligence and leadership-gap assessment before you buy
Not for
- A strategy deck or set of recommendations to hand back
- A business that wants an adviser, not an operator inside it
- Pure diligence with no operator deployed afterwards
- A mandate for oversight rather than hands-on execution
Our role across the hold
A sponsor needs the seat filled and governed, often from another country. We stay engaged with the board and the operator after the match.
Board-cycle reviews
We join the progress reviews at each board cycle and flag slippage against the value plan while there is time.
Depth for integrations
An integration or carve-out in another country can be tested with peers in our collective of 800+ who have run one.
Operator changes, handled
The seat belongs to the portfolio company. If the operator moves on, we hold the plan and brief and lead the replacement search.
Matched to the portfolio
We match on the workstream, the country and the language of the portfolio company, not only on the sponsor's brief.
Across the PE investment lifecycle
From pre-deal to exit preparation.
Pre-deal: operational due diligence
Embed a Fractional COO or CFO to support your ODD. They identify gaps your model hasn't priced.
Post-acquisition: fill the leadership gaps
Begin deploying the right operator within days of instruction. No recruitment pipeline, notice periods, or trial risk.
Value creation: operational improvement
Build financial infrastructure, operating cadences, commercial engines, and professional people structures.
Exit preparation: build credibility
A Fractional CFO producing clean board reporting and investor-grade financials is a meaningful credibility signal in any sale process.
The value-creation matrix
Each value-creation lever maps to the operator built to own it. Most plans pull two or three at once.
Portfolio company leadership options
Match the right fractional operator to the specific portfolio company need.
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