Optimizing businessesfor successful exits.
Grey King advises operating companies, fund managers and investors whether a business is performing well, underperforming or facing more significant challenges.
We bring integrity, objectivity and operator-grade execution to every engagement.
Real operating expertise where it matters most.
Grey King advises operating companies, fund managers and investors to optimize businesses for successful exits whether a company is performing well, underperforming or facing more significant challenges.
We approach every situation with the highest standard of integrity, fairness and objectivity, informed by data and facts. Our focus is improving performance, strengthening strategic positioning and maximizing realizable value.
Five disciplines that drive realizable value.
Integrity & objectivity
Approach every situation with fairness, candor and a commitment to the facts.
Data-informed decisions
Validate assumptions with evidence. Let the numbers guide strategy.
Performance improvement
Improve operations, strengthen positioning and maximize realizable value.
Strategic positioning
Prepare businesses for exit, investment or the next chapter.
Decisive execution
When the situation demands it, take operational control and act with urgency.
The right engagement for the right moment.
Exit Preparation
Positioning the business and its story to maximize realizable value on exit.
Diagnostic Assessments
An expert, unbiased perspective when Boards and investors need root-cause clarity.
Performance Improvement
Operational interventions that improve performance and strengthen strategic positioning.
Turnaround Mandates
Decisive operational control when ambitious change is required before value erodes.
Transaction Advisory
Hands-on advice and support through the transaction itself.
Board-Level Advisory
High-level counsel from strategy to transaction against specific, measurable objectives.
Lew has proven that he is capable of successfully elevating and course-correcting the most difficult challenges.
[Lew] and his team brought a fresh perspective to a complicated and difficult situation at a family of funds; and ultimately, he recommended the course of action that prioritized the overall return to the investors and set the funds on that course.
[Lew] has a rare ability to quickly assess a situation by synthesizing previously unconnected information and develop actionable ways forward, often in the most difficult of environments.
Lew brought a wealth of experience and was instrumental in helping us navigate an otherwise tricky process.
A business at a crossroads?
We respond candidly, quickly, and confidentially. Reach out to Lew Turnquist directly.