There is so much debate,
and so little decision-making. The value of your work is basically the only thing the Board can agree on…
—CEO, Media JV
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About Water Street Partners (WSP)
Our mission: To help clients improve the performance and health of their joint ventures, consortia, and other complex partnerships.
Water Street Partners is a research & advisory firm focused exclusively on serving the leaders of large or strategically significant joint ventures, consortia, and other complex partnerships.
- Founded in 2008 by the former leaders of McKinsey & Company’s Joint Venture and Alliance Practice
- Combines proprietary data, training tools, and best practices research with unmatched experience serving many of the world’s most important JVs across different stages of their lifecycle
- Team has direct personal experience with more than 400 joint ventures, consorita, and other complex partnerships over the past 20 years
The team supports JV CEOs, JV Directors, and parent company executives through two types of services:
Body - Special Box:
Consulting
A highly structured, fact-based approach to solving issues across the venture lifecycle: Deal Making, Launch, Governance and Management (including a JV Health and Performance Assessment), and Corporate Capabilities.
Joint Venture Advisory Group
An annual subscription service for JV CEOs, JV Board Directors, and shareholder executives. Get expert advice; network with other JV executives; participate in major research and benchmarking; and access our tools.
Body - Continued:
Our core belief:
It is possible to significantly improve the performance of many ventures:
- By bringing better analytics and data, and deeper experience to our clients than are available anywhere else
- And to do so at fees that are less than that of traditional management consulting firms