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Covelent is a Leading strategy consultancy serving mid-market private equity funds and corporates with revenues up to $2 billion.

We advise on topics including due diligence, acquisitions and integrations, long- and short-term corporate and business unit strategy, and profitability improvement.

With a narrow aperture,  we advise clients in making decisions that shape growth, performance, and value—particularly when capacity and time is constrained.

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A word from our CEO

"The organisations we support are often navigating high-stakes decisions under real constraints. Our responsibility is to cut through this and help leadership act with confidence.

That means asking the right questions, applying the right experience, and staying focused on what will actually move the needle. It’s why our work is described as distinctive—and why our clients come back when the stakes are highest.”

Nik Nicholas, Managing Partner

Covelent CEO Nik Nicholas in the Covelent London office

Our approach

Our work is structured, inductive, hypothesis-led, and decision-focused.

Every engagement is built around a clearly defined set of questions. We draw on market insight, operational benchmarks, and internal perspectives to build a shared view of what’s possible—and what should be done.

We prioritise what is material to the decision. All analysis is grounded in commercial relevance.

Our model

To truly tackle complex challenges, you need hands-on expertise and lived experience. Our model enables us to provide direct access to highly experienced consultants, operators and sector leadership.  As a matter of principle we employ a significantly higher proportion of senior staff, giving us our distinctive diamond shaped structure.

Advising clients, we operate with lean, senior team structures. Teams shaped around the work —not around availability.

Our capabilities

Covelent works across a defined set of topics:

Since 2023 Covelent has advised on more than 35 engagements, 11 buy-side and 3 sell-side deals ranging from $10-$150m including platform, roll ups and add ons.

Covelent works almost exclusively in service and capital intensive sectors including CPG, energy & utilities, manufacturing & industrials, public sector, TMT, and transport & logistics.

Our culture

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Covelent is a consultancy shaped by collaboration, intellectual rigour, and shared accountability.

We bring together experienced consultants with diverse perspectives and a common goal: to help clients navigate complex decisions with clarity and confidence. Our work is built around small, senior teams that engage directly with leadership—challenging assumptions, testing ideas, and delivering impact that are both practical and precise.

To consistently add value team structure is the highest priority. We draw from a trusted global network to deploy the highest level of expertise that fits the region, the sector, and the context.

Because market dynamics differ. Cultures differ. And strategy needs to reflect that.

We believe the best work happens when thinking is challenged, experience is relevant, and insight is grounded in real-world understanding.

Our commitments

Our firm upholds a commitment to sustainability, accessibility, and the eradication of modern slavery, not because we have to, but because thats what we believe in.  

Sustainability

We believe sustainable business is good business. Long-term value creation depends on resource responsibility, ecological balance, and fair access to opportunity.

We bring this perspective into our own operations and into the strategies we build for clients—treating sustainability not as a checklist, but as a strategic consideration that should inform every material decision.

Read our Carbon Reduction Plan

Accessibility

We are committed to creating an environment where different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of working are respected and supported.

Accessibility informs how we build teams, how we communicate, and how we design strategies for clients. We consider inclusion as a lens—not an afterthought.

Read our Accessibility Statement

Anti slavery

We do not work with organisations that benefit from exploitation—directly or indirectly. Our expectations around ethical conduct are clear and embedded in our way of working.

We maintain strict due diligence and take our obligations seriously. More importantly, we see this as a shared responsibility: raising awareness, asking difficult questions, and holding ourselves and others to account.

Read our Modern Slavery statement
Our values

We're united by our values that help drive us and serve as the bedrock for our culture.

High Impact

•  Delivering Excellence: Upholding the highest standard of work in every endeavor.
•  Transformative Solutions: Creating significant value that transcends client expectations.
•  Sustainable Outcomes: Aiming for long-term success and a lasting positive impact for our clients and society.

Deep Insights

•  Insightful Analysis: Leveraging data to provide deep, actionable insights.
•  Informed Strategies: Guiding decisions with comprehensive and accurate data.
•  Forward-Thinking: Utilising data to address current challenges and anticipate future trends.

Client Centric

•  Understanding First: Prioritising a deep understanding of client needs, contexts, and objectives.
•  Tailored Solutions: Creating customised strategies that precisely address specific client challenges.
•  Lasting Relationships: Fostering enduring relationships built on trust, mutual respect, and successful outcomes.

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What people say
very forthcoming and moved very fast on getting the right people in and the skillset was hard to find in the market."

Director

Leading UK Energy COmpany
“The most helpful part was having access to Covelent as experts to answer questions" - Alfi Romusas, Chief Technology Officer

Alfi Romusas, Cheif Technology Officer

Arthriko Capital Technologies
“Covelent did a stellar job at identifying the root causes of our data challenges and steering us to address them in our own way. We were really impressed ”

Chief Information Officer

Leading London Estate Agency
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