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Focused Mandate
A specific decision, negotiation, diagnostic or situation. Defined scope, defined end.
CEO & Board Advisor
Independent counsel to CEOs, founders, shareholders and boards when growth, control, leadership or reputation is at stake.
— Three outcomes
Grow better. Lead better. Decide better.
Grow Better
Business Scale
For companies that need stronger commercial execution, better organisation, greater leadership capacity and a clearer path to value creation.
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Lead Better
CEO Shadow & Private Advisory
For CEOs and founders who need independent counsel, sharper priorities and a confidential counterpart for decisions that cannot be delegated.
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Decide Better
Critical Situations, Governance & Negotiation
For decisions involving material risk, shareholder conflict, governance, succession, crisis or high-stakes negotiation.
Explore Decide Better
— When to make contact
When the business, the leadership or the decision can no longer be managed in the usual way.
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Growth is becoming harder to control.
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The company remains too dependent on the founder.
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The CEO needs an independent counterpart.
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Shareholders or board members are no longer aligned.
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A decision may materially affect control, value or reputation.
— Ways of working
Three forms of engagement.
Independent counsel takes different forms depending on what is at stake. Scope and fees are defined after the first conversation.
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Structured Mandate
Transformation, growth, governance or strategic preparation over a fixed period, with agreed objectives and milestones.
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Standing Counsel
Continuing counsel for CEOs, founders, shareholders or boards, with a regular cadence and direct access between sessions.
— João Oliveira
Executive experience applied to real business decisions.
Twenty-five years of executive leadership across technology, fintech, payments, international expansion, capital allocation, governance and M&A — as Managing Director of an LSE-listed company, Chief Operations Officer of a global technology group, and Senior Advisor to European private equity. The work is done directly with the decision-maker. No junior teams, no unnecessary layers.
Depth of counsel. Discipline of execution.
About
— Work with João
A single private conversation is how every engagement begins.
If you are facing a decision that matters — in your company, your board, your capital structure or your leadership — reach out directly. Engagements are private, direct and limited in number.
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