Our clients

Private Equity

Proost Ventures has a particular and deep expertise in advising Private Equity funds across the entire investment life cycle. We are uniquely positioned in advising on Commercial Due Diligence, providing quality and reputation of the market leader at mid-cap price levels. In addition to Commercial Due Diligence, our engagements include:

  • Deal generation
  • 100 day programmes
  • Post-deal value enhancement programmes, marketing & sales, and cost reduction
  • Exit planning

Proost Ventures advises mid-cap Private Equity funds, as well as large private equity funds (top-5), as well as Family Offices. Our people have themselves many years of experience in working with PE funds and several have worked directly in the private equity industry.

CASE STUDIES

Financial Services

Proost Ventures has been working with leading European Financial Services institutions, including Retail and Corporate Banks, Private Banks, Wealth and Asset managers, stock exchanges, and insurers (Property & Casualty, life insurance, and re-insurance). We have built up a solid reputation for delivering in even the most challenging environments, with projects such as:

  • Advising the first-ever acquisition of a Retail Bank by a Private Equity fund in the UK (Aldermore Bank).
  • Growth strategies (both organic and via acquisitions)
  • Regulatory impact: Organizational design and cultural change following overhaul in the regulatory landscape
  • Digital bank: Business model re-positioning including the significant impact of digitalization.

CASE STUDIES

Digital / Software

For all industries, digital innovation is now a requirement to satisfy customer needs, to remain cost-competitive and boost efficiency. The software and digital eco-system itself continues to evolve quickly. Proost Ventures has advised investment funds, (ERP) software companies, digital service providers, retail clients, healthcare companies to address issues including:

  • ERP software / verticals
  • Financial Services software / FinTech
  • MedTech
  • Cybersecurity
  • Omni-channel (retail) strategy
  • Digital disruption and responding on-line strategy
  • Supply Chain software (incl. Unified Commerce)
  • Datacenters, Cloud & Hosting services

CASE STUDIES

Industry / energy

Industrial clients range from EUR 50 million to over EUR 2 billion in sales, and from 200 to 2,000 employees. Industrial sectors in which Proost Ventures has a deeper-than-average expertise include: Automotive, Agribusiness, Chemical Services, and Construction & Building products.

Proost Ventures advises low-carbon energy companies (generation companies, wholesalers, equipment OEMs) and their investors, whereby several past projects included the challenge to finance and bring to market a (new) technology. Proost Ventures offers its clients particular expertise in:

  • Energy Storage (technology options, regulation, operator strategy)
  • Electricity and Gas Wholesale
  • Nuclear Generation (technological evolution and operator strategies)

CASE STUDIES