PRIVATE EQUITY CONSULTING

Private equity firms require a consulting partner who delivers increased confidence, reduces risk, and provides seamless access to deep insights and industry experts — all aimed at driving successful outcomes. This means supporting winning bids, crafting actionable growth plans, and maximizing returns at exit.

TNG Consulting has partnered with private equity clients to provide end-to-end support throughout the transaction lifecycle. Our services encompass everything from identifying attractive investment opportunities and conducting rigorous commercial due diligence, to accelerating portfolio company value creation and facilitating smooth exits.

Today, TNG stands as one of the largest and most experienced strategy consulting firms dedicated to serving private equity, trusted for our ability to deliver practical, high-impact solutions that empower firms to win and maximize value.

Our work with private equity draws on deep expertise in business strategy consulting, performance improvement, global reach, and extensive industry knowledge. We deliver forward-looking, strategic insights with a singular focus: helping our clients achieve superior investment returns.

Private equity firms often operate under tight deadlines and require rapid, reliable insights. What sets TNG apart is our proven ability to consistently provide robust, analytically informed advice in fast-moving and often uncertain market conditions. Our transaction support spans a broad spectrum — from multibillion-dollar mega-deals to mid-market and growth capital investments — always marked by exceptional responsiveness and dedication.

We collaborate with a diverse range of private equity clients who value our ability to provide quick access to relevant, actionable insights. These insights stem not only from our deep industry expertise but also from our perspective across related markets worldwide, enabling clients to make well-informed, confident investment decisions.

Two imperatives are at the forefront of every private equity firm’s priorities: selecting the right opportunities and avoiding costly surprises. TNG supports both through our rigorous strategic commercial due diligence process.

Our strategic commercial due diligence is designed to empower clients with independent, fact-based insights into a target company’s most critical commercial and operational challenges. We focus on unlocking value by conducting a thorough analysis of the market landscape, capturing the customer perspective, assessing competitive dynamics, auditing operations, reviewing the business plan, and developing a tailored value enhancement program.

This approach accelerates the due diligence timeline, maximizes deal value, and minimizes buyer risk—ultimately setting the stage for well-structured ownership and a successful exit.

We deliver independent validation with a disciplined process combining rigorous quantitative analysis and qualitative market insights. By conducting in-depth interviews with customers and industry stakeholders, and performing a comprehensive competitive assessment, we identify key opportunities and risks, validate investment theses, and prepare our clients for future exit scenarios. Our reputation is built on challenging management assumptions objectively, leveraging deep industry expertise.

Private equity clients aiming to maximize acquisition value focus on questions such as:

• What are the evolving market dynamics shaping the target’s environment?
   
• How well does the target’s value proposition align with customer needs?
   
• How strong is the target’s competitive positioning?
   
• What cost and revenue synergies exist with current portfolio activities?
   
• How realistic is the business plan? What are the potential upside opportunities and key downside risks?
   

Our commercial due diligence process rigorously explores these questions, enabling clients to move forward with confidence.

Private equity succeeds when portfolio companies succeed. Between initial investment and exit lies the critical question: can the portfolio company seize its opportunity by refining strategy, sharpening operations, strengthening leadership, and driving profitable growth to deliver the desired outcomes?

At TNG, our work with portfolio companies leverages deep business consulting expertise and proven strategy development methodologies. We help companies refocus their strategic direction and accelerate growth.

Operationally, we collaborate with executives to re-engineer core business processes, rationalize manufacturing and support functions, and optimize the supply chain. We also assist management teams in boosting sales force effectiveness, optimizing pricing strategies, and reducing costs.

• What opportunities exist to enhance commercial performance — through refining go-to-market strategies, sharpening the value proposition, and improving sales force productivity?
   
• How can margins be expanded via sophisticated price management, including customer and channel segmentation and value-based pricing?
   
• What are the best opportunities to optimize the business footprint, improve supply chain performance, and reduce operating costs?
   
• How can organizational capabilities be aligned more effectively with key profitability and market share drivers?
   
• What bolt-on acquisitions can strengthen current market positions, extend geographic reach, or add complementary products and services?

The goal for our private equity clients is a successful exit. We support them through our comprehensive vendor due diligence process.

In the past decade alone, we have supported approximately 4,000 transactions. Drawing on this extensive experience and over 30 years of business consulting across multiple sectors, we have developed and continuously refined a vendor due diligence framework designed to facilitate well-structured and efficient sales processes.

• Collaborating with owners and management to craft a compelling investment thesis and narrative.
   
• Early identification of potential “deal-breakers” and developing mitigation strategies to address buyer concerns.
   
• Refining and strengthening management’s business plan.
   
• Identifying new sources of potential “upside” for the business.
   
• Producing a comprehensive report for bidders, along with extracts for presentations and communications.
   
• Providing flexible support to address questions from potential buyers and lenders.
   

At the core of our process is a deep understanding of sector-specific issues and the critical considerations on the minds of bidders. To support our clients, we:

• Provide an independent perspective on market prospects and underlying growth drivers.
   
• Assess the business in its competitive environment, highlighting its relative strengths.
   
• Engage with market participants to clearly position the business’s value proposition with customers.
   
• Review and, if necessary, further develop and refine management’s business plan.
   

The final deliverable is a comprehensive report tailored to the buy side, typically comprising five modules: a business introduction, market review, competitor analysis, assessment of growth opportunities, and a detailed review of the business plan. This report offers a thorough evaluation of the business’s potential, designed to meet the needs and address the concerns of anyone considering a purchase.

With our broad experience beyond financial assessment, we provide independent commercial insight and forward-looking estimates essential for supporting an optimal exit.