Anglesol advises boards, owners and management teams on strategy, mergers, acquisitions and capital — independent, conflict-free, and partner-led from first conversation to close.
A boutique by design — every engagement is led by a principal, with the judgement and discretion that complex situations demand.
Buy-side and sell-side execution, from origination and valuation through negotiation and completion.
Structuring and capital solutions that turn a strategic ambition into an executable, financeable plan.
Independent perspective for boards and owners navigating defining moments and competing interests.
No financing arms, no conflicts to manage, no junior hand-offs. Just experienced counsel aligned wholly with your interests — and the discretion to match.
We hold no positions and sell no products. Our only stake is your outcome.
The person you meet is the person who does the work, end to end.
Decisions grounded in models and evidence, not narrative.
Sensitive situations handled with complete confidentiality.
Fareed brings over 35 years of experience to the decisions that matter most — M&A, capital structuring, distressed situations and strategic counsel. He has operated at principal level throughout his career across investment banking, fund management and independent advisory: at Citi, where he ran debt origination for the Middle East and North Africa; at Citigroup Venture Capital; at the merchant bank Gramercy Communications; at the credit and convertible-arbitrage fund CQS; and at the European advisory and asset-management group Catella. His work has spanned the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, with debt and equity transactions closed in more than 40 countries.
At CQS he built and led a 30-person global research team and a special-situations portfolio he ran personally. The book compounded at roughly 35% in the years before the global financial crisis and, after taking its losses through the downturn, still delivered an 18% IRR across the full cycle. That same analytical rigour and forensic detail define how Anglesol works today: independent, unconflicted, uncorrelated to market consensus, and at all times grounded in research and reasoning.
Anglesol is an independent consulting practice. It exists to give boards, owners and management teams a senior, unconflicted perspective at the moments that carry the most consequence — a sale, an acquisition, a restructuring, a question of capital or control.
The model is deliberately small. Every engagement is led by a principal from first conversation to close — no product agendas, no financing arms, no junior hand-offs. What clients buy is judgement: more than three decades of it, earned across investment banking, fund management and advisory, and applied with discretion to situations where the details decide the outcome.
Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation. Tell us a little about the situation and we'll be in touch.
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