Paul Cuatrecasas is a entrepreneur, investment banker, and strategic advisor to CEOs, senior executives, boards and shareholders of companies operating in or interested in the Technology and Digital industry sectors.
He is on a mission to help large, established, non-tech companies partner with technology companies to avoid being blindsided by exponential change. For over 28 years, he and his firms have been helping these companies find the new strategies and tools they need to survive. It’s something he cares deeply about.
His clients’ success is based on a willingness to bring to the table what other experts don’t, won’t, can’t, or are afraid to. Paul and his team will do what it takes to create a win-win deal, even if it means being contrarian or upsetting traditional thinking.
He has condensed what he’s learned from advising on over 50 TMT M&A transactions around the world worth over $25 billion and on over 70 corporate finance advisory and strategic consultancy assignments for large corporates, start-up tech companies and leading private equity firms, into the book Go Tech, or Go Extinct.
In the book Paul shares what he’s learned from personally conducting one-on-one meetings with C-level executives from over 300 Fortune 1000 companies, as well as the client work executed with several of these corporates.
Working with Paul gets you on the tech company M&A battleground with expert advice and guidance on how tech entrepreneurs & founders think, how they feel, and how they make decisions – particularly the big decisions.
In all of his work Paul promises street-level straightforward advice, proven fact-based tactics, and a departure from traditional business-as-usual thinking and culture.
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Bio
Paul Cuatrecasas is the founder and CEO of Aquaa Partners, an investment banking firm based in London. Previously he was the Founder and a Partner of Alegro Capital from 2003-2010. Previous to Alegro, Paul was the co-founder and Managing Director of ARC Associates from 1993-2003. (ARC Associates was a leading independent London-based TMT mergers and acquisitions advisory practice with a full range of blue chip and entrepreneurial clients including Sonera, Cable & Wireless, Apax, Marconi, Equant, ICL, KKR, Permira and BT, amongst others). Prior to ARC Associates, Paul was a Senior Associate with Arkwright Capital (ex-Bain & Co. partners), an M&A and Corporate Finance advisory firm in London (1991-1993) and with GE Capital in their LBO and Restructuring Group in New York (1989-1991).
Over the past twenty-eight years, Paul has completed over fifty merger and acquisition transactions around the world worth more than $25 billion dollars and over 70 corporate finance advisory and strategic consultancy assignments. He is the author of Go Tech or Go Extinct in which he shares his revolutionary approach to transforming legacy companies into forward-thinking industry leaders through the strategic acquisition of disruptive technology companies.
Paul holds an MBA from Columbia University where he was awarded the Roswell C. McCrea Scholarship and a BA from Wake Forest University. Paul holds dual US and UK citizenship and speaks fluent Spanish. Paul has been quoted in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, US News & World Report, and Forbes. He lives (most of the time) in London with his wife and three children.
