Engagement & fees
Retainer plus success fee. Every mandate is scoped, conflict-checked and quoted in writing — before any work begins.
The two principals do the work — the discovery, the site visit, the CoC meeting. No mandate is signed and handed to a junior team.
Most mandates are a modest retainer plus a success fee. We are paid mainly when you transact, so we only take work we believe can close.
We run buy-side and sell-side, so we check for conflicts before the first substantive meeting and tell you what we find.
Engagement models
Engagement
Structure
Monthly retainer over a 3–6 month mandate, creditable against the success fee, plus a success fee on completion (sliding with deal size).
Fixed-fee, 2–4 weeks per asset: site visit, debt-stack map, claims position and a restart estimate. Standalone or credited into an acquisition mandate.
Monthly retainer per project over a 6–18 month term, scoped to site complexity and reporting cadence.
A work fee over the mandate (retainer or milestone-based) plus a success fee on completion, sliding with transaction size.
A work fee plus a success fee on capital raised. Smaller tickets carry a higher success percentage; every mandate is scoped first.
Every mandate is scoped, conflict-checked and quoted in writing before any work begins. We do not publish a rate card. Nothing on this page is an offer, and we do not guarantee any transaction, financing or process outcome.
Next step
Bring us the situation and we will scope it, check for conflicts, and put a fee in writing before you commit a rupee.
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