Stratego is an independent international network of senior advisors. We support family businesses, entrepreneurs, and mid-market companies on high-stakes mandates — in M&A, structured finance, and financial restructuring.
Speed. Discretion. Accountability. One senior partner, end-to-end.
Independent. International. Partner-led.
What we do
A restrained advisory model designed for critical situations rather than conventional volume-driven execution.
Equity
Sell-side, buy-side, carve-outs, asset deals, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and investor search mandates.
Capital
Working capital, event-driven financing, refinancing, acquisition finance, and structured debt stacks.
Distress
Financial restructuring plans, creditor negotiations, stakeholder management, distressed M&A, and turnaround support.
How we work
Every mandate is led by a senior partner who remains accountable end-to-end. We do not staff junior teams on critical situations. We do not run bureaucratic escalation chains. We activate the right cross-border expertise for each assignment and maintain a single point of control throughout.
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We begin with a structured, confidential conversation. The objective is to build clarity — on the situation, the realistic options, the decision constraints, and the execution sequence. Within a few sessions, we deliver a decision framework with an options map and an execution roadmap.
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Once the direction is confirmed, we activate the appropriate combination of partners — by geography, sector, and specialism. A dedicated governance protocol is agreed with the client: reporting cadence, counterparty contact rules, and information management protocols.
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We manage the process through to closing: preparation of materials, process management, counterparty negotiation, and documentation oversight. Our focus throughout is speed, precision, and information control.
Service
We advise owners, boards, and management teams across the full spectrum of equity transactions — from strategic positioning to execution and closing.
Our mandates span sell-side and buy-side processes, including business disposals, acquisitions, carve-outs, asset deals, business unit sales, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. We also support investor search mandates, working with a network of PE funds, family offices, club deals, and search funds across Europe and international markets.
What distinguishes our approach is the quality of process management. In an equity transaction, information control, sequencing, and negotiation discipline determine outcomes as much as valuation. We bring senior-level judgment to every step — not process management delegated to analysts.
Service
Access to the right capital structure — at the right moment — requires more than a banking relationship. It requires precise positioning, structured documentation, and access to non-traditional and alternative lenders who can move with speed.
We advise companies on extraordinary financing events: working capital facilities, short-term liquidity solutions, acquisition finance, event-driven financing, and structured mid- to long-term capital stacks. Our approach spans the full spectrum of the debt structure — senior, mezzanine, and junior instruments — across both bank and non-bank markets.
We work selectively, bringing senior advisory judgment to each mandate rather than acting as a placement agent or intermediary. The objective is to secure the most appropriate capital structure for the situation, at terms that reflect informed negotiation, not urgency.
Service
When a company faces acute financial pressure, the quality of the advisory support becomes consequential — for survival, for value preservation, and for the outcomes negotiated with creditors and stakeholders.
We advise debtors and creditors in financially distressed situations. Our mandates include the preparation of restructuring plans, multi-creditor class negotiations, stakeholder management, interaction with insolvency bodies, and turnaround support in complex situations. We work in both out-of-court and formal insolvency contexts, across jurisdictions.
Our approach is based on a combination of financial rigor, negotiation experience, and process control. In a restructuring, the sequencing of stakeholder communications, the defensibility of the underlying business plan, and the management of information flows are as critical as the technical solution itself.
The Network
Stratego is structured as an independent international network of senior professionals. There is no institutional hierarchy, no junior staffing model, and no fixed overhead that distorts commercial judgment. Partners operate independently and collaborate selectively on mandates that require cross-border or cross-specialism expertise.
Each mandate is anchored by a designated country partner who holds end-to-end accountability. Cross-border coverage is activated when the mandate requires it — not as a default.
Partners bring backgrounds from investment banking, restructuring advisory, law, and principal investing. They have operated across European and international markets, with direct experience in high-stakes transactions at senior level.
Public profiles are deliberately minimal. Stratego's model is built on relationships, referrals, and trusted introductions — not on marketing. We make available sufficient information for a prospective client or counterparty to establish credibility; beyond that, we protect confidentiality across all parties.
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Single accountable country partner.
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Cross-border coverage activated only when required.
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Senior backgrounds across banking, law, restructuring, and investing.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is not a compliance requirement at Stratego. It is a core operating principle — one that shapes how we access information, how we communicate, and how we manage conflicts.
We do not publish client names, transaction case studies, or mandate references. In a market where many advisors use completed transactions as marketing currency, this is a deliberate choice.
Within every mandate, we maintain strict need-to-know information protocols, traceable information flows, and proactive conflict screening. Any potential conflict of interest is disclosed and addressed before a mandate commences.
For prospective clients, this means we cannot provide a traditional track record. What we can offer instead is a structured initial conversation, relevant senior experience, and references available on a confidential basis to the right counterparties.
Perspectives
We do not publish research, market commentary, or league tables. We share occasional, practice-specific perspectives on governance, negotiation, and capital decisions — designed for the owners, CEOs, and CFOs who manage these situations directly.
Our notes are brief, decision-oriented, and grounded in practice rather than theory. They are not marketing material. They reflect the frameworks and disciplines we apply in actual mandates.
A practical note on information release, counterparty sequencing, governance cadence, and negotiation discipline in a controlled equity process.
A framework for mapping creditor classes, designing communication order, and preserving credibility under pressure.
A decision note on when alternative lenders are appropriate, how documentation shapes appetite, and how urgency affects terms.
A guide to defensible assumptions, stakeholder-readiness, implementation sequencing, and governance evidence.
An execution checklist for perimeter definition, standalone costs, transitional services, separation risk, and buyer confidence.
Contact
If you are facing an extraordinary transaction, a financing event, or a distressed situation, the first step is a confidential conversation.
There is no obligation, no process form, and no junior intake team. Your message goes directly to the relevant senior partner.
Share a brief outline of your situation — the nature of the matter, the geography, and the urgency. We will respond within one business day.
