Our approach: counsel from every side of the table, from Richard McNally of High Elm Capital
Most advisers know a business from one seat. We bring all four.
A founder’s plan, an investor’s diligence, a lender’s credit committee and a market’s pricing all look at the same company differently. Good advice accounts for every one of them, and for the economy they all answer to.
High Elm was founded by Richard McNally, whose career runs from trading floors through venture capital to company finance and institutional funding. He has invested in private companies both on behalf of a venture fund and with his own money, so he knows how investment decisions are made from each side. Every engagement is senior-led, with specialists in operations, legal structuring and regulation brought in as the work requires.
Markets
How risk is priced, where rates and the economy are heading, and where the market may have it wrong, grounded in trading interest rate futures, equities, derivatives and CRE futures.
Investment
How a deal is screened and won, from leading investment at a London venture fund and investing personal capital in private companies.
Operations
What it takes to deliver the plan, from finance and investment roles inside growing businesses and co-founding one.
Capital
What institutional money needs to see, from structuring and placing forward-flow funding with billion-pound capacity for UK lenders.
Every deal sits inside an economy.
Interest rates, inflation, currencies and geopolitics set the price of money and the appetite of every buyer, lender and investor. Richard reads research from some of the world’s leading independent macroeconomic houses, then forms his own view, and is prepared to stand apart from the consensus: many of his best positions as a trader came from going against what the market expected. We bring that independent view to every mandate: when to raise and on what terms, how to structure debt for the rate path ahead, which markets to enter, and what a company or scheme is really worth through the cycle.