AHC & Partners Ltd.

Executive Search and Corporate Structuring
Board & Executive Assessment and Management Audit
Sourcing Human Capital for Private Equity
Reputation Management and Corporate Communications
Financial and Wealth Management Consultancy

Sourcing Human Capital for Private Equity

William Knight is a private equity investment specialist who has spent the majority of his career in the financial services sector, financing developing economies and growth companies within those economies.

Private equity general partnerships (GPs), both in the developed or emerging world markets, increasingly need to supply their investee companies with management talent as well as capital. Whether a GP is financing a management buy-out, a buy-in, a company start-up or simply assisting a public company to go private, the human factor is invariably critical and a GP's investor base (Limited Partners) increasingly expect the GP to be able to provide this capability.

AHC & Partners acts for GPs in finding suitable people to place in investee companies. The partnership also assists with board formations and can assess the quality and blend of complimentary personalities on boards as well as providing management audits. This is an particularly important component in the analysis of the effectiveness of the management of a potential trade-sale partner.

William increasingly focuses on the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and the greater China region. He is a regular participant in private equity conferences as a panellist and his on-going recent advisory assignments include: Aureos Capital, Clearwater Capital, Campbell Lutyens and Co, Evolvence Capital and the KASB group. He has also works regularly with the Asian Development Bank and several governments in the Asian region on the development of financial structures.