Senior Counsel.From First Meeting to Final Signature.
Colborn Consulting advises privately owned companies on growth and the transactions that follow.
When Companies Call Us
Most engagements begin with a decision that has been circling a board for months without resolving. Founded in Paris in 2018, Colborn Consulting works with founders, investors and management teams on questions of significant weight.
Engagements are led by a partner who stays with the work from the first meeting through to its conclusion, so the recommendation you receive comes from someone who has sat with your numbers and spoken to your customers.
What We Advise On
Six areas of work, scoped narrowly and run by the partner who scoped them.
Growth Strategy and Market Entry
Sizing the opportunity in a territory you have never traded in, then choosing the route in.
Commercial Development
How a proven proposition needs to change when the customer changes.
Industrial Engineering and Supply Chain
Capacity, sourcing and network decisions in businesses where margin is earned on the floor.
Transactions and Strategic Partnerships
Preparation, negotiation support and a commercial case that survives the deal process.
Operational Improvement and Financial Organisation
Rebuilding the structure behind a business that has outgrown it, and getting it fit for funding.
Senior Appointments
Securing the leadership a next phase requires, on selected assignments.
Where We Work
Our clients are most frequently European, but their ambitions travel further. Colborn Consulting supports international opportunities of most kinds: expansion into unfamiliar territory, partnership and merger work with counterparts abroad, and commercial initiatives in markets where the route in differs from anything a management team has run before.
Paris gives the firm a useful vantage point. Long-standing relationships with the city's trade institutions and its business schools open doors that a cold approach would take a year to reach.
Sectors
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Technology and B2B Software
Segment focus, pricing and the shape of a sales organisation as a software business scales.
Business and Professional Services
Commercial structure and partner economics in firms that have outgrown their original model.
Industrial and Engineering
Where production should sit and how a manufacturing footprint should evolve.
Logistics and Supply Chain
Network design, inventory strategy and the commercial case for consolidation.
Retail and Commerce
Testing a proposition against a new market before committing to stores, warehousing or a local team.
Representative Engagements
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Since 2018
Colborn Consulting has kept its size steady while its reach has grown. Engagements run closer than those of the large strategy houses, which suits owner-managers who want a considered position over a hundred-slide deck. Clients receive a view they can act on, delivered by people who remain accountable for it.
Senior Counsel. From First Meeting to Final Signature.
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