Mayfair Oak advises owners, founders and managing directors. The people who write to us usually have lawyers, bankers and operators already. They are not short of expertise. They are short of a view that is not attached to a transaction, a mandate, or a document produced to justify a fee.
We take a limited number of instructions, and we stay close to them. The conversation is direct. There is no layer between the principal and the advice. When writing is the right instrument, we write. When it is not, we do not manufacture paper to prove that work occurred.
The practice is in London. We meet in person when the matter deserves it. We do not publish a client list. Discretion is a condition of the work.
What we will not do
We will not pretend to replace legal counsel, an investment bank, or a search firm. We do not sell programmes, and we do not keep up a public commentary on the people we advise. If a matter would be better handled by someone else, we say so at the start.
How an instruction begins
Usually by introduction. Occasionally by a note from someone we already know. The first conversation is to establish whether we are the right people, and whether the timing is real. Not every approach becomes an instruction.
