Ardea is the result of an alliance forged by our founders. After decades of collaborative work at Goldman Sachs, they endeavored to create a firm where they could pursue their passion for advising the world’s best companies and leaders in an environment of partnership and trust. Recognizing the significant demand for truly independent and trustworthy strategic and financial advice, Ardea was established with a unique partnership culture to attract professionals who share their vision.
The Ardea team shares a strong belief in the power of teamwork and partnership. Placing clients’ interests above all else, we strive to provide advice that is based on rigorous consideration, deep experience and an unbiased view of what is best for our clients. Our clients represent not just another transaction, they are our trusted partners, and we want them to succeed.
Today, our advisory business provides an array of services from strategic advisory and mergers and acquisitions to capital raising. Our expertise serves clients from a wide spectrum of industries with a deep concentration in financial services.
Our firm will always be large enough to deliver the most comprehensive global advice, while remaining small enough to protect our culture.
Ardea works differently than most firms because of how strongly we subscribe to the following beliefs:
Ardea invests in strong and deeply personal long-term relationships.
Our communication with our clients is always based on trust, honesty and integrity. It will always be strictly private and confidential.
We serve a select group of clients globally. We are not market share or transaction driven. We rely on the breadth and depth of our capabilities and experience, not the size of our team or our balance sheet.
Plain and simple: diversity results in the generation of more and better ideas.
We have succeeded, and will succeed, by attracting, training and mentoring a diverse group of talented people. They are Ardea's future partners.
Ardea contributes to worthy causes every year. Irrespective of profitability, we donate 2% of our annual revenue to charity.
We believe that providing the best advice to our clients is greatly enhanced by our true partnership culture.
We advise a diverse group of clients to solve some of their most critical financial and strategic challenges. Our core competencies include:
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Countries Represented
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Languages Spoken
We believe that diversity, equality + equity, inclusion and belonging is essential to enriching the culture and partnership across our team and delivering the best advice to our clients. We recognize that our individual differences make us stronger and more resilient as a team and are critical to the long-term success of our organization.
We represent multiple cultures, identities, and life experiences, which is critical to ensuring multiple perspectives and approaches across our team, and will ultimately drive our success.
We will employ processes and procedures that:
We will establish an environment where our team members feel comfortable, respected and supported by one another.
We will foster a culture where our employees feel accepted and welcomed, are able to establish and maintain positive connections and continuously feel engaged and valued.
To support our long-term focus on diversity, equality + equity, inclusion and belonging we have developed the following guiding principles for our team. We will all strive to uphold these objectives to continue to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive firm.
We are committed to sourcing, developing and supporting a diverse array of people to be considered for all potential hires and promotions into any position at the firm.
Our evaluation process for progression and promotion will support our culture of meritocracy and strive to create fairness across the full spectrum of our diverse team.
We will build a culture that creates an inclusive and welcoming environment and provides support and mentorship for every individual who joins the firm.
We will provide opportunities to participate in local volunteer programs and offer financial backing through Ardea Cares for every employee to individually recognize and support charitable organizations that are important to them.