Private equity firms: long-term value creation for Builder Economy
Fusing strategic capital engineering, operations, and cultural stewardship to turn compressed holds into value that compounds, not only for exit onto next bidder.
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.
Investors over focused on IRR leads to Rapid EBITDA / FCFE lift required; enhancing execution drift and time spent on engineering not improvements.
Over-stacked debt tighten strategic options into value extraction versus value creation i.e. toward short-term deleveraging not durable J-curve initiatives.
Synergy realization requires full stakeholders alignment; organization and operations underinvestments feed employee frustration, dilute equity story.
Generic comparisons ignore asset and legacy specifics, mispricing initiatives and forfeiting idiosyncratic upside potential for benchmark level performance.
Central directives, often fund-to-company driven, bypass frontline insight, leaving margin expansion and innovation potential unrealised sitting untackled.
Private equity investment firms: different profiles, sectors, expertise, but similar constraints
Time‑compressed value creation
Extraction‑heavy theses
GP vs PortCo misalignments
Benchmark led playbook
Underleveraged Organizations
Portfolio level issues require long-term advisors with experience in managing the invested and investor side
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower private equity investors in resolving interconnected challenges while long-term value that future buyers can bid upon.
Stakeholder management
Financial restructuring
Organizational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
We align sponsors, portfolio companies under a single governance model - the Roundtable - driving decisive, coordinated value creation.
We engineer capital and liability to serve the long term enterprise value story of structures, safeguarding IRR but also long term performance.
We redesign organizational lines and decision rights to accelerate synergy capture and portfolio scalability in line with the Builder Economy.
We link long-term strategy to near-term execution through targeted bolt-ons, carve-outs, and disciplined organic growth.
We tighten operations so teams execute faster and keep innovating—driving margins, multiples, not only cost cuts.
We accompany Private Equity Investment Firms through two major mandates
What we do
The Build:
The Re-Build:
Structured transformation of portfolio companies, assets by aligning strategy, capital, operations, and organisations during hold period.
Activist-led restructuring mandate to salvage or relaunch underperforming or distressed assets or portfolios.
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
We turn volatility into enterprise resilience—elevating assets from arbitrage plays to long-term franchises through disciplined stewardship.
Multiple expansion or leverage alone no longer clear the hurdle. We engineer cash-flow durability through long term brand stewardship.
Our methodology scales across funds. We bridge the company-to-fund gap, embed common operating standards, and institutionalise best practice across your entire portfolio.
Our commitment to private equity investment firms: build for the firm's legacy without jeopardising return
We turn volatility into enterprise resilience—elevating assets from arbitrage plays to long-term franchises through disciplined stewardship.
Decisive restructuring
Builder focused investments
Portfolio wide capacity
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
Private equity firms:
long-term value creation for Builder Economy
Fusing strategic capital engineering, operations, and cultural stewardship to turn compressed holds into value that compounds, not only for exit onto next bidder.
Lagarde & Guardsmen is the activist advisor to the Builders.
Portfolio level issues require long-term advisors with experience in managing the invested and investor side
Lagarde & Guardsmen exists to empower private equity investors in resolving interconnected challenges while long-term value that future buyers can bid upon.
Stakeholder Management
Financial restructuring
Organisational re-engineering
Strategic repositioning
Operational turnaround
We link long-term strategy to near-term execution through targeted bolt-ons, carve-outs, and disciplined organic growth.
Investors over focused on IRR leads to Rapid EBITDA / FCFE lift required; enhancing execution drift and time spent on engineering not improvements.
Time‑Compressed Value Creation
Extraction‑Heavy Theses
GP vs Portco misalignments
Benchmark Led Playbook
Underleveraged Organisation
We accompany private equity investment firms through two major mandates
What we do
The Build:
Structured transformation of portfolio companies, assets by aligning strategy, capital, operations, and organisations during hold period.
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
We turn volatility into enterprise resilience - elevating assets from arbitrage plays to long-term franchises through disciplined stewardship.
Our commitment to private equity investment firms: build for the firm's legacy without jeopardizing return
We turn volatility into enterprise resilience - elevating assets from arbitrage plays to long-term franchises through disciplined stewardship.
Decisive restructuring
Builder focused investments
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
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.
Private equity investment firms:
different profiles, sectors, expertise, but similar constraints
Time‑compressed value creation
Extraction‑heavy theses
GP vs Portco misalignments
Benchmark led playbook
Underleveraged organisation
Over-stacked debt tighten strategic options into value extraction versus value creation i.e. toward short-term deleveraging not durable J-curve initiatives.
Synergy realization requires full stakeholders alignment; organization and operations underinvestments feed employee frustration, dilute equity story.
Generic comparisons ignore asset and legacy specifics, mispricing initiatives and forfeiting idiosyncratic upside potential for benchmark level performance.
Central directives, often fund-to-company driven, bypass frontline insight, leaving margin expansion and innovation potential unrealised sitting untackled.
We align sponsors, portfolio companies under a single governance model - the Roundtable - driving decisive, coordinated value creation.
We engineer capital and liability to serve the long term enterprise value story of structures, safeguarding IRR but also long term performance.
We link long-term strategy to near-term execution through targeted bolt-ons, carve-outs, and disciplined organic growth.
We tighten operations so teams execute faster and keep innovating - driving margins, multiples, not only cost cuts.
The Re-Build:
Activist-led restructuring mandate to salvage or relaunch underperforming or distressed assets or portfolios.
Multiple expansion or leverage alone no longer clear the hurdle. We engineer cash-flow durability through long term brand stewardship.
Our methodology scales across funds. We bridge the company-to-fund gap, embed common operating standards, and institutionalize best practice across your entire portfolio.
Portfolio wide capacity