Advisory & Corporate Finance

Principal-signed advisory across strategy, restructuring, valuation, rating, and project finance, each engagement delivered to the standard a board or committee expects.

Strategy & Business Advisory Strategic direction backed by quantitative analysis.

We help leadership teams turn ambition into a defensible plan, pressure-testing each strategic option against the numbers before any capital is committed. Our work pairs market and competitive analysis with long-horizon financial modeling, so boards see the value, the risk, and the trade-offs of organic and inorganic paths side by side. The result is a capital-allocation case a committee can act on with conviction.

Restructuring & Debt Advisory Advanced analysis for distress, reorganization, and active credit.

When a balance sheet is under pressure, we give sponsors, lenders, and management one clear, quantified view of the path back to viability. We model the full creditor waterfall, stress liquidity across adverse scenarios, and frame recovery outcomes by stakeholder, so every party negotiates from the same defensible numbers. Our analysis holds up in the room where the deal gets done.

Valuation & Transaction Advisory High-precision financial clarity for M&A.

Boards and special committees rely on us for valuation opinions that withstand scrutiny from auditors, counterparties, and regulators alike. We deliver independent fair-value work under IFRS 13 and ASC 820, fairness opinions, and purchase price allocations grounded in defensible methodology and a full evidentiary trail. Each engagement carries the signature of a named principal and the analytical rigor a transaction of consequence demands.

Standards & Alignment

IFRS 13 and ASC 820 fair-value hierarchy, IFRS 3, and ASC 805 purchase price allocation, US GAAP.

Credit Rating Advisory Strategic positioning before the rating agencies.

We prepare issuers to meet the rating agencies from a position of strength, modeling how their credit profile reads against the public methodologies and the rated peer set. From that vantage we build the credit story, identify the levers that move a rating, and ready management for the questions that decide the outcome. Issuers enter the agency dialogue knowing exactly where they stand.

Infrastructure & Project Finance From concept to financial close.

We take infrastructure projects from concept to financial close, building the bankable models that sponsors, lenders, and multilaterals will stake capital on. Our work spans Public-Private Partnership structuring, tranche-level cash-flow analysis, and the financial due diligence a credit committee expects, with stress scenarios that show where a deal holds and where it bends. Both sides of the table work from the same numbers.

Private Markets

From deal flow to portfolio: integrated advisory and a proprietary monitoring platform for General Partners and Limited Partners across PE, VC, and private debt.

Private Markets Advisory Transaction support across PE, VC, and private debt.

We support General Partners and Limited Partners across the full transaction arc in PE, VC, and private debt. Our LBO and returns models, Quality of Earnings work, and investment-committee analysis surface the value drivers and the red flags well before capital is deployed, with IRR, MOIC, and covenant economics laid out for the decision. Sponsors move faster because the diligence already meets an institutional standard.

Portfolio Monitoring & Reporting One living view across every fund, position, KPI, and covenant.

Our proprietary platform gives investors one living view of every fund, position, and covenant, with look-through analytics that roll NAV, IRR, TVPI, and DPI up from the underlying assets. Agentic-AI extraction turns scattered PDFs, spreadsheets, and statements into structured, as-reported data, and ESG metrics sit alongside the financials in the same view. Limited Partners receive ILPA-aligned reporting backed by a complete audit trail.

Standards & Alignment

ILPA reporting standards, IFRS 13, and ASC 820 fair value, with a complete audit trail.

Data & Analytical Infrastructure

The quantitative and AI platform beneath every engagement, available on its own to institutions modernizing their analytical operations.

Data Engineering & Analytics A unified, governed, AI-ready data foundation.

We build the data foundation institutions need to operate and decide at scale, modernizing the stack from ingestion through to analytics. Our engineers design governed, AI-ready architectures, including Data Mesh and Fabric patterns, with pipelines and integration robust enough to carry production workloads. On that foundation sit the dashboards, research tools, and predictive models the business uses every day.

AI, GenAI & Document Intelligence Agentic-AI extraction and language models at the core.

We put agentic-AI and language models to work on the documents and unstructured data that institutions have long found hard to use. Our systems extract, classify, and retrieve across any source, turning filings, contracts, and statements into structured intelligence that analysts can query directly. The effect is leverage: teams spend their judgment on decisions rather than on hunting for the inputs.

Governance, Lineage & Platform Secure, governed, and ready for scale.

We make data trustworthy at scale, establishing the governance, lineage, and quality controls that let an institution rely on every number it reports. Our frameworks cover cataloguing, master and metadata management, and privacy-aligned handling, integrated across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake. DataOps and MLOps practices keep the whole estate observable, reproducible, and ready to grow.

How We Work

A structured, consistent mandate flow.

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Scope

Structured technical brief with scope, applicable framework, methodology, and deliverables.

02

Data

Secure ingestion and source validation, with AI-powered document extraction.

03

Analysis

Analytical execution on our proprietary platform, every assumption justified and documented.

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Review

Quality control and principal review before any delivery to the client.

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Delivery

Signed deliverable under encryption, with a complete audit and traceability archive.

Why Markets IQ

Four principles that define the firm.

Analytical independence

Every conclusion reflects our professional judgment. Transparent, documented methodology, available for examination by auditors, agencies, and investment committees.

Institutional depth, specialist agility

Institutional analytical quality combined with the speed and closeness of a specialist firm. The balance a serious transaction requires.

Technology, AI, and analysts integrated

A proprietary quantitative platform, AI-powered document intelligence, and institutional analytical resources, delivered in the timeframes the business requires.

A named principal per mandate

Each mandate is led and signed by our principal, who accepts direct analytical responsibility. The accountability model a board or committee expects.

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