Independent investment banking Est. 2020
An independent investment banking group advising owners on the sale and acquisition of companies and assets across Europe, North America and the Middle East, and investing as principal alongside the firms we back.
The firm
Independent · Cross-border · Aligned
Founded in 2020, ArieGuard advises owners on the sale and acquisition of companies and assets, and invests as a principal alongside its advisory practice. We are deliberately small and senior: every mandate is led by the people who win it, the process stays confidential, and our interests are aligned with the outcome rather than the activity.
Independence is the point. Free of conflicts and house product, we give one kind of advice: the advice that serves the client. Our reach is genuinely global, extended by a partner network of 50 and more across six countries, with live coverage of buyers and capital in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
Sectors we cover
Practice
Two business lines
We advise on transactions and we invest our own capital. The discipline is the same: a clear thesis, a confidential process, and terms that hold up after the deal closes.
Sell-side led. We represent owners through the full arc of a transaction: perimeter and valuation, a confidential competitive process, and negotiation to signing, protecting value through to completion.
We invest on our own account and through private-equity strategies, acquiring, improving and realising value in businesses and assets where we see a clear, ownable path to creating it, and where our advisory perspective compounds the edge.
Approach
What we will not trade
We think like owners because we are. We commit our own capital and judgement, and we treat every mandate as our own outcome.
Discretion is the product. Information is held closely, processes are controlled, and nothing reaches the market before it should.
Senior attention on every file. We take fewer mandates so each receives the analysis and craft an outcome of consequence demands.
Clear advice, plainly given. We tell clients what we believe, including what they would rather not hear, and why.
Process
How a sell-side mandate runs
A structured, five-stage process designed to create competitive tension, protect confidentiality and free management to keep running the business.
We define the perimeter, agree the valuation view and prepare the materials that frame the opportunity: the teaser and the information memorandum.
Targeted, confidential outreach to a curated universe of strategic and financial buyers, controlled tightly throughout.
We solicit indicative proposals, benchmark them and shape a shortlist that maximises both terms and certainty.
We manage diligence efficiently, preserve competitive tension and convert interest into firm, binding offers.
We lead negotiation of the SPA and SHA through to signing and completion, coordinating every workstream to the close.
Why a financial advisor
The ArieGuard standard
The discipline of a much larger bank. The discretion of a much smaller one.
Coverage
Three core regions
Cross-border is not an add-on; it is the practice. Our partner network lets us run a confidential process wherever the right buyer, seller or capital sits.
A stable market from which we source select sell-side mandates and principal investments across technology, consumer and industrials.
Access to strategic and financial buyers, and to capital, for cross-border transactions.
Coverage of inbound and outbound flows, connecting growth assets with global counterparties.
