September 20, 2024
Translink Corporate Finance in the United States initiated the acquisition of Blake Street Group (BSG) by Pearl Meyer & Partners. Blake Street Group is a boutique consultancy providing human capital due diligence, organisational readiness, and leadership development to private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management helping organisations build, develop, and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success. Its strategy-driven compensation and leadership consulting services act as powerful catalysts for value creation and competitive advantage by addressing the critical links between people and outcomes. Their clients stand at the forefront of their industries and range from emerging high-growth, not-for-profit, and private organisations to the Fortune 500.
Blake Street Group specialises in human capital due diligence, organisational readiness, and leadership development and alignment. For over ten years, they have partnered with investors, boards, and CEOs on their most important leadership challenges, including ensuring – with a high degree of predictability – that the right people are in the right roles, executing against the right priorities. Blake Street Group enables leaders and businesses to achieve their objectives through optimal talent decisions.
Their combined services will enable value creation across all stages of the investment and ownership lifecycle by helping organisations build, develop and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success.
“As our work with private equity firms has grown, we have been impressed by Blake Street Group’s unique blend of leadership expertise in this area, which is informed by their prior experience in PE and operating company roles,” said Pearl Meyer CEO Beth Florin. “Adding BSG’s offerings to Pearl Meyer’s comprehensive leadership and compensation consulting portfolio further enhances our ability to help clients accelerate growth and reduce human capital risk through their various stages of development.”
“BSG’s offerings and approach align well with Pearl Meyer’s strategy-driven compensation and leadership consulting services,” said BSG Managing Director Andy Rourke. “Both enable value creation on behalf of clients, and we have a shared understanding of what it takes to help organisations build, develop and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success.”
With this new combined offering, Pearl Meyer will deliver value to PE investors and management through aligned leadership and compensation consulting services that help drive success across all stages of the investment and ownership lifecycle. These stages include pre-deal diligence, investor ownership, an exit event, and the transition to a public company.
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Translink Corporate Finance is a world leader in cross-border mid-market M&A advisory services, specialising in transactions ranging from €10M to €250M. Established in 1972, with over five decades of experience, we get the deal done. We are a trusted global group with over 400 experts worldwide, and a proven track record with long-standing clients and deep sector specific knowledge. At Translink Corporate Finance, we are easy to approach, and our core ethos revolves around the pursuit of sustainable value creation for our clients – whose best interests always come first.
Dinan is the partner firm of Translink Corporate Finance in the United States. It is a leading diversified financial services company with over 35 years of advisory and merchant banking experience dedicated to middle-market transactions.
