Gravitas Private Equity Advisory Services is a program leveraging the extensive experience and expertise of the group partners.  It was created as Asia presents particular challenges for Private Equity and Venture Capital managers.

While their priority is dissecting the financial side of a potential deal, they often don’t have the resources at hand to delve as deeply as they would like into the factors behind the numbers:

To help in these areas, GEPAS provides pre-deal management and operations due diligence, the aspects that can ultimately determine the levels of risk and potential reward in the longer term.

GEPAS also addresses another challenge is that often encountered after a deal is signed: the lack of
Asia-experienced, international quality management and operations expertise that can be deployed to manage the transition of a new acquisition, strengthen an under performing asset, or if need be, turn one completely around. 
The Gravitas Partnership can provide this expertise with interim management and non-executive board directors.

Gravitas helps look for a seat at the bar

Gravitas Partners Richard Frost and Richard Ashworth recently completed a new market entry study for an international brewer looking to introduce a boutique beer brand into the Asia marketplace.  

The product is brewed in Ireland and Germany and distribution is being sought throughout the region with Hong Kong being the first point of entry.  They analyzed the market, explored routes to market, interviewed potential distributors, made recommendations and advised the client of the level of committment to succeed.

Gravitas Partner Roger Winter is currently on assignment for one of the world's top media planning and buying networks.   He is leading the effort to create a second tier media network for the company in the region.  

Roger's role includes identifying potential acquisition candidates, analyzing corporate synergies, recommending suitable targets and spearheading negotiations.   His search has taken him throughout the region with current emphasis being on India, South Korea and the Philippines.

Wilson Chan: Digital Agency Midwife

Gravitas Partner Wilson Chan recently completed an assignment for one of the world's leading media planning and buying networks.   The objective, through the acquisition route, is to establish a digital marketing communications agency network in the Asia Pacific region to add to the parent company's marketing capabilities offering.

Wilson's role included identifying potential acquisition candidates, conducting analysis for corporate synergies and recommending suitable targets.

The Gravitas Partnership is a very diverse and multi-faceted organization.  
While each partner has successfully operated at the highest levels of his industry, the broad spectrum of experience and expertise makes for a relatively long story
of the cumulative strengths we bring our clients... particularly when their skills are crafted into benefit oriented programs to build our clients' businesses in the region.

It was felt necessary to somehow boil the essence of the partnership down to a more digestable, broad strokes picture of the partnership.   A difficult task (which ended up in 9 pt. type) but it's been done.

This has served as a valuable, albeit cursory, "brief introduction" of what
the Gravitas Partnership brings to the party.

Gravitas In-a-Page (.pdf version)