European capability within reach.
Five complementary practices, one experienced partner. We provide the people, presence and practical support your business needs from Europe.
Board & Governance
We provide experienced European and international board members, supervisory-board members and governance advisers to Asian companies to strengthen governance, international credibility and communication with global investors, partners and advisers.
Services include
- Board and supervisory-board membership
- Independent and non-executive director roles
- Board and shareholder representation
- Corporate governance support
- Board agenda and board-pack preparation
- Strategic planning and board-meeting participation
- Follow-up and implementation of board decisions
- Coordination among shareholders, management and professional advisers
- Board-level strategic development, including appropriate introductions to potential investors, acquirers, commercial partners and clients
Interim, Turnaround & Executive Management
We provide experienced senior management to Asian-owned companies in Europe, European subsidiaries of Asian companies, acquired businesses and companies experiencing operational or financial difficulties. An engagement can range from several days per month to a full assignment lasting several months.
Possible roles
- Interim senior executive
- Turnaround or restructuring manager
- Crisis-management executive
- Project director
- Post-acquisition integration manager
- European expansion manager
- Fractional senior executive
Services include
- Preparation for an acquisition, fundraising process or sale
- Post-acquisition integration
- Management meetings and implementation of strategic decisions
- Coordination of accountants, lawyers, IT providers and other external advisers
- Business-performance reviews
- Cash-flow and working-capital improvement
- Cost reduction and business-process improvement
- Management reporting
- Supplier and customer management
- Operational restructuring
90-Day Business Performance & Turnaround Review
A focused review for companies with a viable underlying business that are underperforming, under operational or financial pressure, or in transition. We review performance, cash flow, costs, working capital, management processes and strategic priorities, then provide practical recommendations and an implementation plan. Clients gain experienced senior-management capacity without the time and cost of recruiting a permanent European executive.
Asia–Europe Business Development & Market Entry
The Eight Advisory can serve as your outsourced European business-development office. We help clients enter French and European markets, identify distributors and customers, approach and negotiate with local partners, and manage ongoing commercial relationships.
Services include
- France and EU market-entry strategy
- Market and competitor research
- Product positioning
- Identification of potential customers, importers and distributors
- Distributor searches and negotiation support
- Identification of commercial and strategic partners
- Customer and supplier introductions
- Meeting organization and negotiation support
- Coordination of commercial and professional due diligence on prospective European partners
- Local relationship management
- Ongoing business development
- Regular reporting to Asian headquarters
A staged approach for physical products
- 01Market assessment
- 02Customer & distributor identification
- 03Introductions
- 04Negotiation support
- 05Local representation
- 06Ongoing business development
Where appropriate, we may act as commercial agent or distributor for selected products. Each arrangement is evaluated and agreed separately based on the product, market and opportunity.
Executive Relocation & Corporate Support
We provide premium relocation, administrative and practical support to companies, senior executives, internationally mobile families and high-net-worth individuals establishing themselves in France or elsewhere in Europe.
Coordination services include
- Residential and office searches
- School and relocation coordination
- Introductions to accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers
- Cars, drivers and corporate travel arrangements
- Domestic-staff and household-administration coordination
- Restaurant, event and hospitality arrangements
- Supplier identification and coordination
We coordinate these matters directly or through appropriate specialist providers, giving clients a single, reliable point of contact.
European Representation & Market Presence
For companies that need someone on the ground in France or Europe, The Eight Advisory acts as a credible and practical local representative. Clients gain an effective European presence without the immediate cost and complexity of establishing and staffing a local office.
Services include
- Local company and business representation
- Dedicated French or European business contact point
- Receiving and coordinating business correspondence
- Representation at business meetings and events
- Customer and supplier liaison
- Local customer, supplier and professional introductions
- Coordination with accountants, lawyers, payroll providers and other professionals
- Administrative liaison
- Monitoring local business developments and opportunities
- Supporting visits by headquarters executives
- Following up with customers, suppliers and professional advisers
- Escalating operational or commercial issues to headquarters
- Regular reporting to Asian headquarters
- General problem-solving and business facilitation
Experience that
goes beyond advice.
Our services are grounded in decades of practical international experience. Our principals have managed, acquired, advised, developed and divested businesses, and served on the boards of listed and privately owned companies across Europe, Asia and the United States.
We understand European business from direct experience — as executives, investors, board members and trusted representatives of shareholders and companies.
Our experience includes
- Company and executive management
- Banking and finance
- Wealth management and family-office relationships, including experience at UBS
- Corporate governance and board positions
- M&A, acquisitions and disposals
- Investment management and monitoring
- Turnaround and restructuring
- International business development
- Shareholder and investor relationships
- High-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families
- European, American and Asian business relationships
- Listed and privately owned companies
- Coordination of lawyers, accountants, banks and professional advisers
A record of practical contributions.
These examples illustrate outcomes to which our principals contributed through management, board, governance, transaction-support or business-facilitation roles. They involved wider management teams, shareholders, advisers and other participants.
- Contributed as Chairman of the Board of a Swiss-listed company to substantially reducing losses and rebuilding a leaner organization during its turnaround.
- Supported the turnaround of a French digital commerce company and the process leading to its subsequent sale.
- Contributed at supervisory-board and strategic level to positioning a publicly listed German company for a merger and supporting a shareholder’s successful exit.
- Helped facilitate resolution of long-standing shareholder disagreements at a digital entertainment company.
- Contributed at board level to the modernization and digital development of a long-established art magazine and the process culminating in a successful exit.
- Supported the incoming CEO of a large industrial conglomerate in a board role through leadership transition, stabilization efforts and development of new revenue streams.
- Contributed at management level to facilitating the sale of a group of companies in a transaction valued at approximately USD 67.5 million.
- Contributed at management and governance level to facilitating a publicly listed company’s approximately EUR 8 million acquisition of a privately owned SaaS business.
- Managed relationships with leading investment banks and key internal executives in connection with approximately USD 11.6 billion of project financing for a major energy infrastructure company.
A practical partner.
A world of possibilities.
Tell us where you want to go. We will help you take the next step.