About Us
About KitcattBowman
KitcattBowman is a new business established by Martin Kitcatt and Peter Bowman to give those managers looking for senior hands-on advice exactly what they want. Wherever management incentivisation is respected as an important ingredient of success, we would be pleased to get involved, drawing on our many years of advisory experience.
Whilst a corporate transaction is usually at the heart of most successful management incentivisation plans, we will get involved at much earlier stages of the corporate journey and over longer timeframes. Indeed, in many cases the management advisor is brought in fairly late with the transaction machine in full flow. Financial models can be built and term sheets negotiated in short timeframes, but too often there is little room for thought and reflection.
Priding ourselves on always giving honest views in a straightforward manner, no self-respecting management team should find themselves signing up to the next stage of a corporate journey without as full an understanding as possible, both collectively and individually, of their roles and incentivisation arrangements.
Always establishing good working relationships with other advisers, we will minimise any overlap, trusting them to do a great job. As a senior-only model, any heavy lifting required can be carried out by the other advisers, including other management tax and legal advisers.
The human side is very important to us, and without a relationship, there are limits to how much value we can add. Remote meeting technology is changing the advisory community and its way of working, but we always find that we need some face to face connection to truly understand the people behind the deals.
With a lifetime of experience, strong connections within the private capital community, and an unrivaled reputation, we bring significant value to incentivisation arrangements throughout corporate journeys.
We are prepared to be flexible in our role – recognising that clients only want exactly what they want. Our principal motivation in establishing this business is to work only where we can add value to interesting businesses with great management teams that are fun to work alongside.
KitcattBowman’s added value can be summed up as: education, communication and negotiation.
