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Search & Selection
Private Equity
In due diligence processes for MBOs, MBIs and portfolio businesses, a poor management selection decision carries serious implications for the business, the investors, and for the deal itself. Being able to identify, attract and recruit key personnel is essential to success. Wickland Westcott's Private Equity Practice understands the skills needed to work effectively in PE-backed businesses. Operating in partnership with the PE houses and advisors, our strong network, management due diligence and delivery capabilities enable us to assess executives accurately, and to recruit high calibre Chairmen, CEOs, CFOs and functional heads to investee businesses.
Being sector specialists, our Consultants have a deep marketplace understanding coupled with an established network of executives and non-executives, and can therefore provide a valuable advisory capability, particularly useful in pre-deal due diligence. Assessment of management teams pre-deal can be tricky, therefore we also run workshops to help Partners in PE houses optimise the accuracy of their assessments.
Case Studies
Crew Clothing - Taking Over from the Founder
Alastair Parker-Swift founded Crew Clothing with one retail site in Salcombe, Devon in 1993. Today, the multi-channel retailer has over 60 stores in the UK and internationally. When ISIS Equity Partners took a significant minority stake in the business in 2006, it was to help Alastair realise some of the capital he had created but also to partner him on the next stage of the company's growth and development. Three years into a successful partnership and the business was at a crossroads; it had reached a plateau in terms of
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Wiggle - Chief Executive Recruitment
Founded in 1999, Wiggle is one of only a few early e-tail stars to have made the successful transition from entrepreneurial start-up to international market leader. Selling bikes and cycle accessories, Wiggle has grown to over £50M turnover in a short period of time and the real challenge has been implementing the infrastructure required to support this business success.
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