Independent, experienced
and fact-based advice for
joint ventures and partnerships


Joint Venture Consulting, Humber Bridge

Water Street Partners is a joint venture consulting firm focused on serving the world’s largest joint ventures and partnerships.

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Founded by the former leaders of McKinsey & Company’s alliance practice, Water Street Partners has a team with direct personal experience working on more than 400 joint venture and other alliance transactions and restructurings over the past 20 years. Our founders co-authored two books, five Harvard Business Review articles, and more than 100 other articles in other leading management and business publications.

Water Street Partners brings
a highly-structured and fact-based approach to new and existing joint venture and partnership situations, including understanding sources of value, calibrating performance, and evaluating deal structuring and restructuring options.

Water Street Partners was founded in 2008 and is located on what was historically called Water Street (now K Street), in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC.