Making Sense of the Fast-Moving Taxi App Market

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  CLIENT SITUATION A consulting director working at a Beijing-based tech advisory firm needed to get up to speed quickly on the taxi-hailing app market in Southeast Asia. His client, a firm considering an investment in the sector, wanted to understand the market opportunity and the competitive landscape.   GUIDEPOINT SOLUTION Within 48 hours, Guidepoint […]

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Bringing Biotech Thought Leadership to Life

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  CLIENT SITUATION In biotechnology, developing a new cutting-edge treatment that will help millions of Americans, and doing it faster than anyone else, is what you’re supposed to do. But being a thought leader in the field is who you are. When an American biotechnology company needed to obtain meaningful context on the current treatment […]

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Delivering Knowledge With Custom Events

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  CLIENT SITUATION A successful company will have a comprehensive knowledge of its products. They’ll know what it does, who uses it and why. But what happens when a potential new use comes along that might open up an entirely new clientele? That’s what happened when Guidepoint client ResMed, a leader in Sleep Disorder Breathing […]

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Evaluating A Healthcare IPO: Hedge Funds Look Beyond the Hype

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  CLIENT SITUATION When Nevro, a manufacturer and distributor of a medical device to relieve back pain, announced an IPO, hedge funds sat up straight and took notice. Physicians in Europe and Australia had started to implant Nevro’s Senza HF10 System, a new high frequency spinal cord stimulator, to relieve chronic back and leg pain […]

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Developing a Clear View of an Eyesore Device

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  CLIENT SITUATION A private equity (PE) firm specializing in the healthcare sector was evaluating investing in a company developing a device with the potential to treat glaucoma patients. While the device has a highly specialized use, the analysts at the PE firm hypothesized it had the potential to deliver high returns. Over a period […]

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Minimizing Risks in Direct Lending

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  CLIENT SITUATION A leading asset management firm provides customized financing solutions to middle market companies. As a senior vice president on the asset management firm’s lending team said, “We have limited underwriting bandwidth, and Guidepoint ’s experts flatten out our learning curve.” A sponsor presented a packet of information to the asset management firm about a […]

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Conducting First-Class Due Diligence on Regional Airline

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  CLIENT SITUATION When an asset management firm considered the purchase of a regional airline, a senior analyst at the firm sought expert insights on commuter passenger travel, charter air travel, and cargo operations. The firm needed a deep understanding of the local market and the regional airline’s cooperative arrangements with national carriers. Of specific […]

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