Risk advisory firm adds private equity practice with NYC office

Forward Risk & Intelligence opened an office in New York City that will house its core team of its newly established private equity practice. According to the Washington, D.C. investigations and risk advisory firm, the new office will be co-headed by Mike Aber and Mike Seyer. The pair joined in October after building a similar practice at their previous firm Gryphon Strategies. Aber and Seyer specialize in pre-investment diligence and vetting executive hires for lower- and middle-market private equity firms, providing both deep dive reports and discreet source inquiry work, according to Forward Risk. “We have built our private equity practice to provide a more sophisticated diligence option than what is offered in the market right now,” said Aber. “No one on our team believes in simply checking the box.” “Our source inquiry work, combined with our experience digging strategically in the public record, make Forward Risk an ideal diligence partner to the private equity community,” said Seyer. “We are looking for levers of opportunity and growth, aligning our work with our client’s primary objective – unlocking the value of their portfolio.” The mission of the new business is to ensure that clients are always equipped with an information advantage, said Brendan Foo, a co-founder and partner at Forward Risk. The private equity practice builds upon the firm’s specialty in providing intelligence for corporate contests, working with shareholders and corporations to advance governance best practices at the management and board level. The firm also offers litigation support, political vetting and opposition research and risk advisory.

Risk advisory firm adds private equity practice with NYC office

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