The Daily Work of Influencing
Tangible practices to gain insight, build relationships and influence your peers in the Operator. How many of the 33 practices’ have you used?
Geoff Walker is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura based in Washington, DC. He joined Ankura in 2020, following Ankura’s acquisition of Water Street Partners, which he co-founded in 2008. Water Street Partners has been independently ranked as the number one global advisor on joint ventures since 2017. Geoff has extensive experience structuring and restructuring joint ventures and advising clients on maximizing the value of their joint venture portfolios. Geoff serves a global client base primarily of companies in the natural resources sector, including oil and gas, metals and mining, chemicals, utilities, and alternative energy. He is a regular, featured speaker at industry and corporate events and has written extensively on joint ventures.
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Tangible practices to gain insight, build relationships and influence your peers in the Operator. How many of the 33 practices’ have you used?
Reducing partner drag and accessing other rewards from engaging differently with non-operating partners. No more “Do what I say, not what I do.”
What our benchmarking data says about non-operated asset team size, and the factors that should drive asset team sizing – but rarely do.
How does your team stack up to our Standards of Non-Operated Asset Management Excellence?
The purpose of this note is to distill our experience serving hundreds of joint ventures over the last 20 years – and to offer guidance to JV CEOs and their teams on how to address the added challenges that JVs introduce.
Risks related to exit terms and post-exit considerations, including examples of what companies can do to mitigate these risks.
Checklist and key design considerations for companies evaluating what types of information access to provide to their JVs.