I.
Manufacturing
Plant strategy, supplier networks, and the unglamorous arithmetic of margin. We have built lines from the floor up — and rebuilt them when the market turned.
Est. MMXXV · A Private Advisory House
Built,
not borrowed.
Two operators. Twenty years of building, opening, and growing businesses side by side. What we offer is the clarity that only comes from having done the work — and the discretion of a house that keeps its conversations private.
“Built on experience. Offered as counsel.”
No. 01 — The House
No. 02 — The Brand Truth
We don’t just advise.
We’ve built.
Twenty years. A handful of ventures built together — factories commissioned, hotels opened, kitchens run. We are partners first to one another, and from that bond, partners to a small number of principals who value the same fidelity.
20+
Years together
2
Founding partners
∞
Skin in the game
No. 03 — The PracticeA general counsel,
A general counsel,
with rooms that run deep.
Generalist advisors by disposition, specialists where our hands have done the work.
II.
Hospitality
Concept, opening, and the long second act. We have stood at the pass and at the front desk. The taste for the room is acquired only one way.
III.
Retail
Format, footprint, and the quiet craft of a brand that earns return visits. We have built stores, run them, and known when to close them.
IV.
Government & Policy
Counsel at the seam between private enterprise and public interest. We move with the patience the work requires, and the discretion it demands.
Beyond the rooms
Board counsel · Partnership alignment · Capital structure · Family holdings · Founder coaching · The quiet conversations held in confidence.
No. 04 — PrinciplesFour rules
Four rules
of the house.
- i.
Counsel, not commerce
We accept a small number of engagements each year, and we accept them slowly.
- ii.
Operators first
Every recommendation is one we have stood behind in our own businesses.
- iii.
Two names on the door
You work directly with the two partners. That access is the entire promise.
- iv.
Discretion as default
Our conversations stay between the partners and the principal. Always.
Two founders.
One ledger.
More than twenty years ago, we met as two young men with more conviction than experience. In the years since, we have built together, lost together, learned together, and built again.
There were the long days, and the longer nights. The decisions made at 3 a.m. when only one phone in the world would ring. We have been each other's first call on the hardest days, and the quiet voice on the other end when the words were difficult to find. What we know about business, we learned by doing. What we know about partnership, we learned by keeping ours.
To those who choose to work with us, we offer one promise: we will stay true to you. We will honour your north star, speak plainly when it matters, and put the same craft and dedication into your house as we have always put into our own.
— The Founders
Founders & Co. · MMXXV
“We have been in the room.
Now we help you own it.”
House Voice — Plate IV
No. 06 — CorrespondenceAn audience,
An audience,
by introduction.
We take on a small number of engagements each year. Write to us in your own hand — a paragraph is enough. We reply to every serious letter.