Private Equity Firms

Acclaro Growth Partners has focused on advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies since its inception.  Our heritage of success and experience with some of the most respected names in the private equity community remains a cornerstone of our business.

Acclaro provides business due diligence in obscure, niche markets.  Our work is time-sensitive and provides critical decision support for PE firms considering new investments.  By providing a 360-degree view of the prospective portfolio company, its suppliers, customers, competitors and marketplace, Acclaro helps Private Equity Firms mitigate risk.  Our business strategy due diligence process uncovers the real opportunities and threats behind a potential investment.  Acclaro’s Executive Action Report™ is based upon:

• External analysis of markets, customers, competitors, and suppliers
• Internal analysis of management, operations, and core competencies
• Strategic analysis of wildcard opportunities and threats, brand and
  channel strategies, and strategic growth assumptions

Portfolio Companies

Acclaro also works with executives at a PE firm’s portfolio companies, helping to refine their strategic growth dilemmas, based upon solid, insightful and fact-based research.

A Portfolio Company’s Executives are often preoccupied with day-to-day operations leaving them little time to explore the big picture.  Many worry about negative aspects of their business -- lack of growth, anxiety about new competitors, the loss of key accounts, and departure of key managers. Or about the positive aspects -– planned new market entry, new distribution channels, new product development, or upcoming mergers and acquisitions. Acclaro helps these executives make strategic growth decisions based on insightful information and analysis, and a full range of alternatives ranked by impact and ease of implementation.