Ovington Square Knightsbridge London SW3
Beyond Access.
Ovington & Co. originates strategic partnerships and significant commercial opportunities at executive level, and remains involved through to execution.
What we do
Access is rarely the constraint.
The right access is.
Ovington creates direct alignment between organisations, leadership and opportunity, at the level where decisions are made and commitments become material.
We identify where capability, ambition and commercial interest can converge, then originate the relationships required to turn that possibility into a mandate.
The relationship is the beginning, not the product.
How we work
A mandate begins with the objective.
Ovington identifies the organisations, decision-makers and capabilities required to achieve it, then creates the route between them.
01
Originate
Identify where a material opportunity genuinely exists.
02
Access
Create the route to the people who can decide.
03
Align
Establish strategic alignment at executive level.
04
Structure
Shape the commercial proposition around the outcome.
05
Execute
Carry the relationship into commercial reality.
06
Sustain
Remain involved while the value is created.
Where we work
Ovington is most relevant where the objective is significant and the route crosses conventional boundaries.
High-value partnerships between enterprises, technology organisations and strategic partners.
New commercial opportunities across organisations, sectors and markets.
Technology-led initiatives tied directly to strategic or operational outcomes.
Complex objectives requiring unusual access, senior alignment or specialist capability.
Technology
Technology is not the offer.
It is the capability behind it.
Where a mandate requires engineering, product or delivery capability, Ovington assembles it around the commercial objective rather than the reverse.
When to engage
Access creates the possibility.
Execution determines its value.
The opportunity is significant and the route is not obvious.
The right relationship does not yet exist.
Conventional channels are unlikely to produce the outcome.
Senior sponsorship exists, but alignment does not.
Leadership
Senior involvement
is not delegated.
Alastair Liddell
Managing Partner
Knightsbridge · London
Ovington is led by Alastair Liddell, who works directly across the firm's private mandates from origination and executive alignment through commercial formation and execution.
Private Mandates
Not every opportunity should become a mandate.
Ovington accepts a limited number of engagements where we believe our involvement can materially influence the outcome.
Each requires a significant objective, senior sponsorship and a clear reason for Ovington to be at the table.
Structure
Retained mandate.
Economics follow value.
Mandates are structured as ongoing engagements, with Ovington's commercial interests aligned, where appropriate, to the value created.
Private Office
A mandate begins
with a conversation.
Correspondence is received by the Private Office in Knightsbridge and treated in confidence.
By introduction.