Empowering Employees to Become Enterprise Value Leaders
Extending beyond high-level restructurings; we ensure that employees become co-creators of sustainable transformation driving impact.
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.
Common challenges for management & employees
Strategic fog & conflicting signals
Information asymmetry
Departmental silos & turf wars
Headcount turnover
Limited upskilling, talent development
How Lagarde & Guardsmen helps
Lagarde exists to empower Legal Administrators in their ongoing restructuring cases by deepening and scaling their central role in value creation opportunity
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
Our commitment to Management & Employees
Unified Change Mandate
Workforce as Restructuring Agents
Scalable Toolset & Data Edge
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.
What we do
Our mandates: long term growth partner to employees and management
The Build
Long-term support to growth efforts from group structurings to management buy-outs
The Re-Build
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
Send us your contact request here or book an appointment below
Governance loops connect C‑suite vision to mid‑level execution and frontline feedback - creating trust and accountability.
We help ensure every investment in personnel or technology drives meaningful returns and fosters long-term value.
We refine organizational charts and leadership, transforming organizations into change seeking organisms.
We leverage internal excellence by ensuring employee capacity to reach board for transformation initiatives
We ensure operational excellence is reaching by fostering internal best practices while overseeing operational changes.
We fuse financial, operational, and cultural levers into one roadmap—turning the whole organisation into a coordinated, change‑seeking organism.
Every employee gains clarity, tools, and incentives to spot inefficiencies, propose fixes, and own results—driving transformation from the bottom up.
Through Technology & Guardsmen, setup of digital dashboards and agile playbooks, democratise restructuring know‑how, letting teams iterate improvements in real time.
Unclear or shifting priorities paralyse decision‑making and burn resources before impact is realised.
Critical data lives in disconnected systems and layers, blocking holistic insight and timely action.
Wrongly competing departments create friction, duplicate effort, and hinder cross‑functional solutions.
Underperformance spikes employee turnover and creates vicious organizational circle.
Lack of upskilling and change management fuels resistance and fears in a period of technology‑driven efficiency gains.
Empowering employees to Become enterprise value leaders
Extending beyond high-level restructurings; we ensure that employees become co-creators of sustainable transformation driving impact.
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.
Unclear or shifting priorities paralyse decision‑making and burn resources before impact is realised.
Common challenges for management & employees
Strategic fog & conflicting signals
Information asymmetry
Departmental silos & turf wars
Headcount turnover
Limited upskilling, talent development
Critical data lives in disconnected systems and layers, blocking holistic insight and timely action.
Wrongly competing departments create friction, duplicate effort, and hinder cross‑functional solutions.
Underperformance spikes employee turnover and creates vicious organizational circle.
Lack of upskilling and change management fuels resistance and fears in a period of technology‑driven efficiency gains.
How Lagarde & Guardsmen helps
Lagarde exists to empower employees in transforming their organizations by becoming active transformation and progress agents.
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
We refine organizational charts and leadership, transforming organizations into change seeking organisms.
Governance loops connect C‑suite vision to mid‑level execution and frontline feedback - creating trust and accountability.
We help ensure every investment in personnel or technology drives meaningful returns and fosters long-term value.
We leverage internal excellence by ensuring employee capacity to reach board for transformation initiatives
We ensure operational excellence is reaching by fostering internal best practices while overseeing operational changes.
We accompany management & employees through two major mandates
What we do
The Build:
Long-term support to growth efforts from group structurings to management buy-outs
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
The Re-Build:
Hands-on turnaround mandate to restore viability and stakeholder trust when liquidity, leadership, or alignment is in danger.
We fuse financial, operational, and cultural levers into one roadmap—turning the whole organisation into a coordinated, change‑seeking organism.
Our commitment to management & employees
We turn uncertainty into opportunities for employees to be part of a positive and transformative value creation story.
Unified change mandate
Workforce as restructuring agents
Lagarde & Guardsmen is for the Builders, not for everyone.
Merging strategy, capital, culture, and operations into a single, enduring value proposition.
We should talk.
Send us your contact request here or book an appointment below
Every employee gains clarity, tools, and incentives to spot inefficiencies, propose fixes, and own results—driving transformation from the bottom up.
Through Guardsmen Technologies, setup of digital dashboards and agile playbooks, democratise restructuring know‑how, letting teams iterate improvements in real time.
Portfolio wide capacity