Without integrated governance, continual pivots and reorganizations risk shatters trust and isolates leadership.
Tight runways and unpredictable burn rates collide with all obligations: commercial, financial, organizational.
Rapid expansions or downturns breed role ambiguity, siloed teams, and culture clashes leading to negative feedback loops.
Urgent market pivots or expansions can obscure coherent, long-range strategy.
In hostile or friendly structures.
In distressed or going concern basis.
From management to employee level.
At the asset and enterprise level.
Across verticals.
Founders & owners: preserving vision, elevating value
In a system built on extraction, founders and owners face the burden of building without compromise.
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the activist advisor to the Builders.
Activist: We are with you on the long term, supporting you across your build, not only when you need it. As sentinels, if we see you moving away from your values, and ours, we address it. Our standards for you and us, above our interests, always.
Advisor: We do not advise you out of unlived experience - as an entrepreneurial firm, previously investor, board member, corporate issuer, corporate borrower, lender, and consultant, we know how to engage with all stakeholders to create long term value.
As Guardsmen of enduring enterprise value, we integrate financial restructuring, operational transformation, cultural redesign, and long-term growth into a single method.
This method is Enterprise Value Optimisation.
Discover the Builder Economy founding paper here
Deeply rooted problems require expertise across all corporate verticals to ensure efficient addressing
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower company owners, founders in addressing interconnected and simultaneous challenges, delivering enduring solutions
Stakeholder Management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
Lagarde & Guardsmen: a mandate tailored for the situation of each stakeholders
Our mandates: tailored solutions summarized in two major mandates for corporate founders & owners
The Build
The Re-Build
Long-term mandate to institutionalise, scale businesses to secure enduring value and future transmission.
Hands-on turnaround mandate to restore viability and stakeholder trust when liquidity, leadership, or alignment is in danger.
Our method: Enterprise Value Optimization (EVO) tackling both assets and liabilities structuring / restructuring
is our end-to-end methodology for systematically enhancing every facet of your enterprise - financial, operational, strategic, and organisational - to achieve durable, long-range value creation. Rather than a transactional engagement, the Build and Re-Build represent comprehensive transformation journeys.
1. Fortress Phase – Short term scan and transformation preparation
2. Catalyst Phase – Complete structuring / restructuring
3. Ascent Phase – Legacy building & compounding resilience
We do more: discover the Guardsmen Ecosystem
We unite financial, strategic, operational, and cultural interventions under one cohesive plan, eliminating siloed solutions that slow progress or erode trust while ensuring an homogeneous level of excellence from design to execution.
Our mission is to secure both immediate stability and lasting relevance - while we support the business on the short term emergencies, we build capital frameworks, leadership pipelines, and operational resilience that can last months to generations.
Whether orchestrating sudden restructurings or guiding measured expansions and long term ownership transmissions, we stay embedded within the leadership long term, maintaining active relationship with stakeholders rather than passive problem solving.
Our commitment to founders & corporate owners: we are your Guardsmen
Integrated mandate
Generational stewardship
Adaptive execution
Lagarde & Guardsmen is for the Builders, not for everyone.
Merging strategy, capital, culture, and operations into a single, enduring value proposition for Builders across their journey, in line with your and our values.
We should talk.
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Founders & owners: similar pain points for the start-up, scale-up, and mature SME
Multi-stakeholder complexity
Financial strain under volatility
Operations drag & cultural drift
Lack of cohesive strategy
Under-optimized processes
Whether born of startup haste or legacy inertia, inadequate workflows contribute to quality lapses, supply-chain breakdowns, and subpar execution that amplifies stress in a volatile environment.
Without integrated governance, continual pivots and reorganizations risk shatters trust and isolates leadership.
In hostile or friendly structures.
In distressed or going concern basis.
From management to employee level.
At the asset and enterprise level.
Across verticals.
We unite financial, strategic, operational, and cultural interventions under one cohesive plan, eliminating siloed solutions that slow progress or erode trust while ensuring an homogeneous level of excellence from design to execution.
Our mission is to secure both immediate stability and lasting relevance - while we support the business on the short term emergencies, we build capital frameworks, leadership pipelines, and operational resilience that can last months to generations.
Whether orchestrating sudden restructurings or guiding measured expansions and long term ownership transmissions, we stay embedded within the leadership long term, maintaining active relationship with stakeholders rather than passive problem solving.
Our commitment to founders & corporate owners: we are your Guardsmen
Integrated mandate
Founders & owners: Preserving vision, Elevating value
Founders & Owners: similar pain points for the start-up, scale-up, and mature SME
Multi-stakeholder complexity
Financial strain under volatility
Operations drag & cultural drift
Lack of cohesive strategy
Under-optimized processes
Deeply rooted problems require expertise across all corporate verticals to ensure efficient addressing
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower company owners, founders in addressing interconnected and simultaneous challenges, delivering integrated and enduring solutions
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organizational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
Lagarde & Guardsmen: a mandate tailored for the situation of each stakeholders
Our mandates - tailored solutions summarised in two major mandates for corporate founders & owners
The Build
Long-term mandate to institutionalise, scale businesses to secure enduring value and future transmission.
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the activist advisor to the Builders.
Activist: We are with you on the long term, supporting you across your build, not only when you need it. As sentinels, if we see you moving away from your values, and ours, we address it. Our standards for you and us, above our interests, always.
Advisor: We do not advise you out of unlived experience - as an entrepreneurial firm, previously investor, board member, corporate issuer, corporate borrower, lender, and consultant, we know how to engage with all stakeholders and how to build value out of it.
As Guardsmen of enduring enterprise value, we integrate financial restructuring, operational transformation, cultural redesign, and long-term growth into a single method.
This method is Enterprise Value Optimisation.
In a system built on extraction, founders and owners face the burden of building without compromise.
In a system built on extraction, founders and owners face the burden of building without compromise.
Tight runways and unpredictable burn rates collide with all obligations: commercial, financial, organizational.
Rapid expansions or downturns breed role ambiguity, siloed teams, and culture clashes leading to negative feedback loops.
Urgent market pivots or expansions can obscure coherent, long-range strategy.
Whether born of startup haste or legacy inertia, inadequate workflows contribute to quality lapses, supply-chain breakdowns, and subpar execution that amplifies stress in a volatile environment.
The Re-Build
Hands-on turnaround mandate to restore viability and stakeholder trust when liquidity, leadership, or alignment is in danger.
Enterprise Value Optimization (EVO)
is our end-to-end methodology for systematically enhancing every facet of your enterprise - financial, operational, strategic, and organisational - to achieve durable, long-range value creation. Rather than a transactional engagement, the Build and Re-Build represent comprehensive transformation journeys.
1. Fortress Phase – Short term scan and transformation preparation
2. Catalyst Phase – Complete structuring / restructuring
3. Ascent Phase – Legacy building & compounding Resilience
Generational stewardship
Adaptive execution
Lagarde & Guardsmen is for the Builders, not for everyone.
Merging strategy, capital, culture, and operations into a single, enduring value proposition.
We should talk.