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Capstone
Capstone is a policy analysis and regulatory due diligence firm helping institutional investors and corporations navigate regulatory landscapes to unearth opportunities and avoid risks.
With offices in Washington DC, London, NYC, Paris, Houston, and Mumbai, we deliver intimate knowledge of global regulatory developments and their commercial impact. We provide granular, timebound policy forecasts, quantify their impact, and recommend revenue generating strategies. We employ a rigorous analytical framework to combine the policy and industry knowledge that we have built through years of experience with focused research and outreach with industry experts that is tailored to specific investable opportunities.
We specialize in regulatory due diligence through a commercial lens for PE firms and portfolio companies. Our buyside and sell-side diligence identifies forward-looking regulatory risks and opportunities affecting targets, quantifies revenue impacts, and creates strategies to mitigate headwinds or capitalize on tailwinds.
We also help portfolio companies navigate regulatory changes, optimize compliance strategies, and identify growth opportunities from policy developments. Our differentiated perspectives enable informed decisions in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Food Strategy Associates
Food Strategy Associates delivers a distinct commercial and operational strategy consulting offer by combining top-tier consulting expertise with deep, hands-on industry experience.
Our exclusive and undiluted focus on the food and beverage sector is further strengthened by our extensive network of associates, each bringing specialist knowledge on any category in the market.
Over the past 12 months, we have cemented our position as Europe’s leading commercial due diligence provider in the food and beverage sector. FSA advised on a record 13 transactions—more than triple the number from the previous year. Highlights include sell-side CDD for Valeo Foods Group on the sale of its meat snacks business, New World Foods Europe, to Kepak Group.
Continued growth prompted our move to new offices in Fitzrovia and the opening of our first international office in Utrecht, The Netherlands. We’ve expanded our team with three new analysts in London; Arthur Oesterle as Senior Associate in Germany (15+ years in consulting and operational leadership); and Michel Acda as Partner leading our Dutch practice (25+ years of operational leadership in F&B).
Beyond project delivery, FSA continues to shape industry thinking—contributing to panels and publishing insights on the future of the European food and beverage market. No other CDD provider offers this level of specialist knowledge, rigor, and impact in food and beverage.
Fortius Partners
Fortius Partners is the specialist provider of Sales & GTM Due Diligence for the PE market, delivering actionable insights that bridge the gap between traditional CDDs and post-deal value creation. Operating exclusively in commercial transformation, we have supported several UK mid-market investments across different sectors.
We are the preferred Sales & GTM DD provider to several top funds, including LDC, YFM, BGF, Phoenix Equity, Soho Square Capital and ECI. All of our engagements are led exclusively by our co-founders: Mitul Ruparelia (3x ex-CRO with a proven track record in Fortune 500 and PE-backed businesses) and Simon Andreas Hofmann (ex-management consultant and Head of CDDs with hundreds of deals under his belt).
We rigorously assess internal sales engines - processes, team structure, pricing, customer acquisition—and present execution-ready value bridges backed by management and investors. We typically deliver within 2–4 weeks with minimal disruption.
In 2025, we also co-authored Sales and Go To Market: In the Age of AI —a practitioner’s playbook for growth in the AI-era—further cementing our leadership in the GTM diligence space.
OMMAX
OMMAX has established itself as a leading global provider of CDDs, with a strong focus on the UK PE market. Over the past 12 months, OMMAX completed 90+ engagements across sectors including software, healthcare, and consumer goods, consistently delivering actionable insights and measurable results, with 15+ engagements led from the UK office.
With a cross-functional team spanning transaction advisory, technology, data analytics, AI, and industry verticals, OMMAX provides granular analysis beyond standard offerings - our ability to execute on recommendations has earned a consistent NPS score of 90+.
A key milestone this year was the growth of our UK office, both in terms of revenue and overall FTE growth, each of which increased by 2x YoY. OMMAX’s expansion across Europe has secured significant mandates, e.g., supporting EQT on the €2.6bn sale of Karo Healthcare to KKR, delivering projects for mid and large-cap PE firms and corporates, strengthening our international presence.
The recent acquisition of Information Quality Institute GmbH (IQI) (Feb 2025) boosts OMMAX’s data excellence and AI capabilities, reinforcing our commitment to transformative business solutions. With 90+ successful engagements and an expanding US & European presence, OMMAX continues to deliver exceptional value, positioning itself for sustained leadership.
Palladium
Palladium delivered digital, technology and AI due diligence across 30+ UK private equity deals in the past year, up 20%+ YoY, with 86% being platform investments, contributing to combined deal values ~£1b. Alongside strong international growth, we remain deeply committed to the UK market, supporting 20 PE clients (35% new) through our specialist diligence offering.
Our work helps investors surface the strongest potential investments: with a rise in non-completions, our analysis identified weak digital fundamentals or unsustainable growth. Sympathetic to market pressures on our clients, using proprietary AI tooling, we are able to tailoring diligence to stage and size of deals.
We conduct trend analysis, competitor benchmarking, and performance diagnostics to help investors get to grips with rapidly evolving markets such as luxury travel, niche consumer segments, and business services.
Palladium covers a broad range of industries, with recent work in travel, education, healthcare, and financial services. Our agile ways of working allow us to deliver high-impact insights within tight exclusivity windows.
We don’t just benchmark performance, we explain it, and map to future value creation. In a market where digital maturity is central to investment theses, Palladium’s diligence is rigorous, actionable, and trusted.
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