Sitting alongside owners to shape strategic outcomes
Helping owners make confident, informed decisions that deliver long-term value
We sit on the Owners’ side of the Board Room table – whether at a Holding Company Board for a multi-business portfolio or an Operating Company Board.
Our role is to support owners as they make the key decisions that impact a business or portfolio.
Working with the executive team, we provide strategic decision support and communicate with the Board and Owners Group as needed.
Strategic, fact-based guidance
Our approach is both strategic and grounded in facts. We help you to ask the right questions and design approaches that support your decision making.
Drawing on the expertise of our team of analysts, we explore your business challenges in-depth and work with executives to identify options, make recommendations and provide solutions.
When is our support required?
Clients often seek our support when there is:
Lack of clarity around direction
Lack of clear, concise and complete information
A strategy question
An organisational dilemma
A performance issue
Guiding decisions. Supporting execution.
We have extensive experience in Strategy, Organisation and M&A, and can be a thought partner to owners and managers as they discuss key issues. We also work with executive teams, applying our fact-based and analytical approach to problem solving.
We recognise when external support would add value and work alongside you to define what is required, draw up shortlists, manage the proposal process, and support you through the final selection.
Often, we continue supporting you to manage your preferred advisor. This may be in areas as diverse as Strategic Advice, M&A transactions, Executive or Board Search to Operations.
We are focused on understanding value and how to drive value creation, and we ensure that we track benefits in these terms.
Case study: From crisis to recovery
For one family client, we helped the C-team of a struggling business to better communicate with the Owners’ Board, focusing on the key metrics that mattered for the company’s survival.
We created a sub-committee of the board that could work with the management to ensure strategic options were identified (including sale of a strategic stake, recapitalisation and/or sale of assets) – and then evaluated.
This allowed management to stay focused on the execution of the turnaround whilst ensuring the company had the capital to survive. The company is now out of the “intensive care” and is beginning to engage with advisors on their future growth strategy.
Who we are
Independent strategic advisors to Owners
Acanthite Partners is an independent, specialist advisory firm dedicated to addressing the unique situations faced by family-owned groups. Our mission is to help families make the right decisions for their business and investments and protect their legacies for future generations.
We create lasting solutions, enabled by decades of experience and an intimate understanding of family dynamics.
CLIENT STORY
Redefining the Owners’ expectations of financial outcomes
A second- and third-generation owner of a consumer goods company was struggling with designing and agreeing on a succession plan. There were no clear governance structures; a result of a more owner-operator culture. There was also no clear successor in the next generation and several G2 sibling branches were disengaged from decision making.
Ultimately, there was limited alignment and no structured forum for progress. Conversations about the future remained unresolved.
In response, and with G2’s endorsement, a new task force was formed, consisting of Next Gens from each branch. Believing that structure should follow strategy, the first task was to align around a common vision and financial expectations.