Our clients rely on us not only for a successful outcome but also for our honest, diplomatic and informed advice. We are a firm of high integrity and professional rigour, but not at the expense of creativity and fresh thinking.
Our clients choose us for many reasons, which include: our confidential and rigorous approach, the tailoring of our process to suit each client’s specific needs, the breadth and depth of our network, and ability to reach candidates who are not readily identifiable.
Owing to the breadth of our coverage and One Firm approach, uniquely we provide our clients with a fully rounded, 360 degree picture of each prospective candidate for a given role.
Boardroom Search
We advise clients on non-executive appointments. We have developed a distinct research process which we apply to all our Board searches, whether for Chairs, NEDs or other non-executive positions, a process which involves wholly inclusive, wide ranging and in-depth sourcing. As a result, by its very essence our process ensures that, for each search, we identify a balanced range of candidates from the broadest possible spectrum.
Sectors
- Infrastructure
- Energy, Power & Utilities (incl. Energy Transition & Renewables)
- Transport & Logistics
- Financial Services
- Business Services
- Industrials
- Communications
- Consumer & Specialist Retail
- Gaming & Leisure
- Public & Social Sectors
- Real Estate
- Technology (incl. Fintech)
- Healthcare
- Chair FTSE250 renewables investment company
- Chair specialist retail plc
- Chair independent positive impact investor
- Chair business services plc
- Chair of a private equity portfolio company (infrastructure)
- Chair UK private bank
- NED FTSE250 renewables investment company
- NED FTSE250 infrastructure investment company
- NED PE backed UK water company
- NED, Asia independent investment manager
- NED (and Chair of Audit) business services plc
- NED Swiss listed fintech company
- NED leading UK racecourse
- Senior Advisor PE backed hydrogen business
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Advisory
In addition to carrying out search assignments, we offer a full range of other complementary advisory and consulting services to assist our clients with their human capital strategy and management, ensuring good governance and best practice. Our services have been employed for a variety of purposes, including:
- Board reviews
- Succession planning
- Onboarding and mentoring
- Compensation benchmarking studies
- Building a diverse pipeline of talent
- Evaluating potential for new product launches
- Introduction of advisors
- Impact of new regulations
- Board Evaluation FTSE250 construction company
- Board Evaluation FTSE250 insurance company
- Board Evaluation government backed infrastructure development organisation
- Board Remuneration Review UK investment trust
- Extensive report on women in Investment Banking, and Management identifying the key areas of concern, potential solutions and the steps needed to effect cultural change
- Report on the role of the Product Specialist in Asset Management, including duties, key relationships, expected outcomes and compensation structure
- Compensation review of the Board (chair and non-executives) and senior executives across the support services and business services sectors
- Feasibility study for building a distribution capability in Asia for a global investment house, advising on key markets, optimal timing for hiring key personnel and the trigger points for opening secondary and tertiary offices in the region
- Review of how different Asset Management firms have built an Alternatives capability examining key aspects such as organisational structure, compensation and cultural impact.
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Asset & Wealth Management
The work we do in Wealth Management is broad in its scope, from advising on diversity, extensive due diligence for a start-up, through to specialist analysts and portfolio managers for family offices.
We operate in all areas of asset management, be that in investments across all the asset classes, distribution on a pan-European, Asian or Global basis, or in the corporate functions. We work for FTSE100 asset managers as well as boutiques and service providers. We can access a multitude of boardrooms in those sectors, drawing on a wealth of experience.
Investment Banking & Capital Markets
We have helped a combination of bulge-bracket, European, Global and mid-market investment banks and advisory boutiques add senior talent to their sector, country and product teams, in some instances building them from scratch. Beyond investment banking, core areas of strength include corporate broking, leveraged finance and debt advisory, where we have orchestrated team moves as well as individual hires.
Private Equity & Debt
Our experience across both sell and buyside means we are well placed to work with private equity and debt funds within the Financial Sponsor community, both in the UK and Continental Europe. We have conducted searches across the capital structure. We also work at the portfolio company level, placing non-executive talent into Board roles.
Operating Companies
We advise clients on a range of senior executive roles, typically at Board and Exco level. We operate across many different sectors and apply the same rigorous research process as we do for our Board searches.
Sectors
- Infrastructure
- Energy, Power & Utilities (incl. Energy Transition & Renewables)
- Transport & Logistics
- Financial Services
- Business Services
- Industrials
- Communications
- Consumer & Specialist Retail
- Gaming & Leisure
- Public & Social Sectors
- Real Estate
- Technology (incl. Fintech)
- Healthcare
Digital Media & Marketing
Longwater Partners offer clients an in depth understanding of digital transformation: the effects on business and the talent needed to drive change. We work with a broad range of clients from advertising agencies to consumer facing brands, placing senior talent in strategic, innovation and marketing roles.
Legal
Our Legal practice comprises a mix of private practice and in-house General Counsel search work. We have successfully completed both Partner & Associate level searches across a variety of disciplines for a number of UK regional Law Firms, building out their London operations and/or strengthening their regional office network. Our in-house General Counsel work has largely been for various financial services clients.
Career Management
Longwater Partners Consulting offers a range of complementary advisory services to assist our clients with human capital strategy. We utilise our skills at gathering information from the market to bring factual insights to our clients, helping them to make decisions that will have a major business impact while being culturally inclusive.
Our consulting services have been employed for a variety of purposes, including:
- Succession planning
- Compensation benchmarking studies
- Building a diverse pipeline of talent
- Evaluating potential for new product launches
- Introduction of advisors
- Impact of new regulations
- Extensive report on women in Investment Banking, and Asset Management identifying the key areas of concern, potential solutions and the steps needed to effect cultural change
- Report on the role of the Product Specialist in Asset Management, including duties, key relationships, expected outcomes and compensation structure
- Compensation review of the Board (chair and non-executives) and senior executives across the support services and business services sectors
- Feasibility study for building a distribution capability in Asia for a global investment house, advising on key markets, optimal timing for hiring key personnel and the trigger points for opening secondary and tertiary offices in the region
- Review of how different Asset Management firms have built an Alternatives capability examining key aspects such as organisational structure, compensation and cultural impact.
The team