Private advisory & investment

Capital and counsel for ambitious companies.

Jay Lawrence Group is a private advisory and investment firm. We partner with founders and leadership teams through the moments that define a company — raising capital, acquiring, restructuring or charting the next stage of growth.

$1.4B
Transaction value advised
90+
Engagements completed
22 yrs
In practice
Advisory

Where we add value.

M&A Advisory

Buy-side and sell-side counsel across diligence, negotiation and closing — delivered by senior partners who stay in the room.

Growth Strategy

Positioning, market-entry and operating plans that turn ambition into a defensible, executable path.

Turnaround & Restructuring

Decisive support when performance stalls — stabilising cash, restructuring obligations and restoring momentum.

Board Advisory

Independent perspective and governance counsel for boards navigating succession, risk and strategic change.

Capital
We invest our own capital alongside the companies we advise — alignment you can measure.

Where the thesis is right, Jay Lawrence Group deploys its own balance sheet. It keeps us honest about our advice and patient about the outcome, because we share the same downside and the same upside as the teams we back.

Approach

Senior, small and aligned.

Senior-led

Every engagement is led by a partner with decades of operating and deal experience — no hand-offs.

Few clients

We take a limited number of engagements a year so each one receives genuine, unhurried attention.