The K&P Advantage

What makes us different?

Our clients retain us to multiply the value of the businesses they own. At any given time, half of the projects we are working on are for former clients who have acquired new companies. Why do these clients choose to work with us again?

We provide leadership coupled with a structured methodology

Rapidly capturing untapped value in a business frequently requires that a company be transformed.  To achieve this, we provide leadership, typically using interim managers to fill CEO, COO or CRO (Chief Restructuring Officer) roles.

Coupled with this leadership, we have our own proprietary methodology for implementing significant performance improvement programs. Our methodology, which has grown out of the significant work we have done in the areas of supply chain and operations, allows us to swiftly identify the direct causes of our clients' problems and define precise solutions to implement. In most engagements, our years of experience and structured methodology allow us to quickly describe the expected performance improvement that we believe a business can achieve.

We have outstanding executives and professionals yet execute projects using a team approach

Unique to the advisory market in Central Europe, all of our senior managers have held multiple senior management positions in our client organizations. Our professionals are all graduates of the finest Central European universities or top global business schools. For each client we carefully assemble the best possible team of managers and professionals to swiftly execute change.

We are the largest privately held firm in the region providing these services

We have the largest integrated team in Central and Eastern Europe, with linguistic and operating capabilities covering the whole region. In retaining Kolaja & Partners, our clients get the benefit of years of restructuring experience, and access to the broad number of experts throughout Kolaja & Partners who can immediately provide assistance to resolve a wide range of problems that can arise during restructuring.

Being a privately held partnership allows us to make decisions rapidly, and not base decisions on some policies formulated by a far-off headquarters. The fact that we are privately held gives clients the peace of mind that we are working solely in their best interest and not towards quarterly profit targets that publicly traded advisory firms have.

We link our compensation to the outcomes our clients achieve

Our clients' success is the only way that we can judge our own success. As a result we believe it is essential to link a portion of our compensation to the value we create for our clients. Doing so builds trust and ensures that our goals are aligned with our clients.

We work extremely closely with our clients and always try to remove the "them and us" barrier

One of the greatest impediments to implementing change is that clients don't take ownership of the changes that are to be implemented. In order to avoid this problem, our implementation teams integrate themselves very closely into client organizations. Below is a sample of just some of the positions our managers and professionals have held in our clients' organizations.