New York — the East Coast partnership.

The New York office is where the M&A and roll-up work concentrates. Sid Ahuja leads from here — capital-markets background, two decades of mid-market sell-side processes, the multi-unit playbook for hotel groups, dental and medical DSOs, real-estate operating cos and professional-services firms where the unit economics are the deal. Matt Putra co-leads from this office on the consumer side, where Eastern Seaboard CPG and omnichannel brands need a Vancouver-style operating playbook with an East Coast retail and trade-spend perspective. The work that runs from New York: sell-side preparation 12–24 months before a process, the unit-economics rebuilds that determine whether a roll-up thesis is real or aspirational, post-LOI working-capital peg defence, and the boutique sell-side advisory that competes with the lower mid-market shops on operator depth rather than league-table position. ICP: $20M–$200M operating businesses where the next 18 months involves a transaction — sale, recapitalisation, roll-up or strategic partnership. The bench from this office covers the Northeast corridor through the Mid-Atlantic and South Florida; we travel weekly. London partners are one Concorde-era time zone away — a real advantage for cross-Atlantic processes.