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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Successful companies actively manage their businesses through periods of economic growth, downturn, and recovery.
Twelve years ago, we co-authored with CalPERS a set of guidelines for joint venture governance.
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The boards of public companies are watched carefully to see how they’re doing on gender parity and other measures of diversity.
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Alliances play a major role in almost every industry—from airlines to oil exploration, from pharmaceuticals to semiconductors.
