An advisor who also works for acquirers keeps a second client in every negotiation. We removed the question: Halstead holds no buy-side retainers, protects no acquirer relationship, and accepts one mandate per partner at a time.
The discipline shapes everything else. Processes stay quiet — codenames from the first call, data rooms opened to principals only, guidance set once and held. When a sale closes, it is entered in the book and announced only when both parties want it read.
Discretion before marketing
No client list, no press without consent, no case studies with names. The work speaks in codenames.
One book, one partner
The partner you meet runs your process personally, from the first call to the entry in the book.
No buy-side retainers
We act for sellers. There is no acquirer relationship to protect and no conflict across the table.
Every mandate is led personally by one of the partners below — no leverage pyramid, no hand-offs. We do not print their faces; discretion begins at home.
Former head of M&A at a London merchant bank. Twenty-two years of private sales; not one leaked.
Built the capital and minority practice. Prices a business against the whole market, not the first bidder to call.
Writes the opinions boards keep. Formerly of a Big Four valuation practice; tested in four jurisdictions.
Two names, one book
Founded in London to act for sellers only — one mandate per partner, recorded by hand.
First cross-border close
A family engineering group sold to a Nordic strategic — the first of many cross-border entries.
The opinions practice
Fairness opinions become a standalone practice after a decade of board work.
The capital desk
A dedicated desk for minority and growth-capital mandates opens alongside sell-side.
Forty-one entries
Forty-one closings in the book; the mandates behind them still private.
A first conversation costs an hour and binds nothing. Everything after it is under NDA.