We serve clients who are negotiating, launching, managing, or restructuring joint ventures, consortia and other complex partnerships.

Our team has direct personal experience serving JV Boards, JV CEOs, Corporate Parent executives, and deal teams on more than 400 joint ventures and other alliances over the past 20 years, including more than half of the world’s 50 largest joint ventures.

Our clients span a range of profiles:

• Structure: 50-50 JVs, majority-minority JVs, multi-owner JVs or consortia, etc.
• Size: Smaller R&D consortia and shared utility JVs, up to multi-billion dollar JVs
• Geography: Global; more than 50% of our work is in Europe, Middle East, South America, Asia, and Africa
• Industries: Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining, Chemicals, Power, Alternative Energy, Media, Telecom, Manufacturing, Logistics, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Semiconductors, and High Tech

Our focus by venture type:

 The Water Street Partners team has directly served:

• 3 of the 4 largest integrated oil companies on structuring and restructuring their upstream and downstream ventures
• 23 of the top 50 US industrial companies and 10 of the top 25 European industrial companies in venture structuring and performance
• 10+ top US, Japanese, and European pharmaceutical companies on structuring novel research and marketing transactions / investments
• Several cross-border asset management JVs and financial service shared utilities and consortia in payments and securities clearing / settlement in both the US and Europe
• Some of the largest food and beverage, health and beauty, and retailing companies, particularly with ventures in key emerging markets such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia