Private Equity's Next Chapter: From Arbitrage to Enduring Impact

Private Equity's Next Chapter: From Arbitrage to Enduring Impact

May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025

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As CEO of the world’s premier strategy consulting firm purpose built for the pace of private equity, I feel I have a unique perspective on the investment industry.

 

In particular, I regard the private equity market not merely as an investment ecosystem, but as a catalyst for business transformation. In today’s environment, marked by global complexity and disruption, the imperative has shifted from financial arbitrage to fundamental value creation. The most forward-looking clients recognize this and are recalibrating their approach—bringing a sharper lens to diligence, embracing operational intensity, and demanding accelerated impact post-close. In fact, we believe that post-LOI diligence has become the 100 plan.

 

We work shoulder to shoulder with these investors, in the crucible moments of the deal lifecycle. Whether it's validating a thesis through commercial diligence or partnering with management to reshape the economic value chain, our role is to help translate ambition into action. What we see consistently is that success in private equity now depends on speed, certainty, and the ability to drive performance across multiple levers.

 

In an era of higher interest rates and global uncertainty, the margin for error is narrow. The best firms are those who act decisively, guided by insight and undeterred by volatility. Private equity, at its best, is not about short-term gain but enduring impact. And our mandate is to help our clients achieve just that—with integrity, precision, and pace.


-Jayson Traxler, CEO 

Brad Kuntz

“Larger deals are sort of on hold or moving very slowly. The idea being that if we can move slowly, hopefully we can get some of that clarity of information at some point.”


-Brad Kuntz, Senior Managing Director,  Industrials

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