About Bain & Company’s Private Equity business
Bain & Company is the leading consulting partner to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders. Private
equity consulting at Bain has grown 13-fold over the past 15 years and now represents about one-quarter of the
fi rm’s global business. We maintain a global network of more than 400 experienced professionals serving PE
clients. Our practice is more than three times larger than that of the next-largest consulting fi rm serving private
equity funds.
Bain’s work with PE spans fund types, including buyout, infrastructure, real estate, debt and hedge funds. We
also work with many of the most prominent limited partners (LPs) to PE fi rms, including sovereign wealth funds,
pension funds, fi nancial institutions, endowments and family investment offi ces. We support our clients across
a broad range of objectives:
Deal generation: We help PE funds develop the right investment thesis and enhance deal fl ow, profi ling industries,
screening companies and devising a plan to approach targets.
Due diligence: We help funds make better deal decisions by performing diligence, assessing performance
improvement opportunities and providing a post-acquisition agenda.
Immediate post-acquisition: We support the pursuit of rapid returns by developing a strategic blueprint for
the acquired company, leading workshops that align management with strategic priorities and directing
focused initiatives.
Ongoing value addition: We help increase company value by supporting revenue enhancement and cost reduction
and by refreshing strategy.
Exit: We help ensure funds maximize returns by identifying the optimal exit strategy, preparing the selling
documents and pre-qualifying buyers.
Firm strategy and operations: We help PE fi rms develop their own strategy for continued excellence, focusing on
asset-class and geographic diversifi cation, sector specialization, fund-raising, organizational design and decision
making, enlisting top talent and maximizing investment capabilities.
LP and institutional investor strategy: We work with private equity LPs to develop best-in-class PE programs
and with institutional investors to achieve optimal performance of their overall investment portfolio. Topics we
address cover asset-class allocation, governance and risk management, organizational design and decision making,
PE portfolio construction and fund manager selection. We also help LPs expand their participation in PE,
including through co-investment and direct investing opportunities.