James Bamford is a Senior Advisor at Ankura based in Washington, DC. He joined Ankura with the firm’s 2020 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. Prior to Water Street, he was global co-lead of the Joint Venture & Alliance Practice at McKinsey & Company.
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The purpose of this guide is to outline a process to identify potentially obscured areas of misalignment in a joint venture, and to develop potential remedies that can be incorporated into deal terms and other pre-close agreements. Illustrate a case study of misalignment scenario planning.
The purpose of this note is to describe the JV Misalignment Scenario Planning tool and how it works.
Is it time to have a structured and engaged conversation about the right operating model for a new or existing JV? This might get emotional.
The purpose of this tool is to collect feedback from employees at the front-line of partner interactions (e.g., Board and committee members; shareholder representatives, Asset Managers, and individuals in other governance support roles; former secondees; employees providing functional services and support to ventures) on how partners perceive the Company as a JV partner. The second purpose is to provide a systematic and fact-based means to identify areas where the Company can improve as a JV partner.
This document is a compilation of some of the interesting processes and tools that companies use to screen and shape partnership transactions.
This guide is part of the Structuring the JV Agreement Series.
This guide is part of the Structuring the JV Agreement Series.
This guide should serve as an outline of what the front-end of the deal process for potential joint ventures looks like in leading companies.
