- Leading strategy consulting firms
(Boston Consulting Group, Monitor Company, Arthur D Little, Mercer Management, Price Waterhouse Coopers)
- Investment funds and banks
(Warburg Pincus, Sevin Rosen, General Atlantic, Madison Dearborn, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs. Lehman Brothers, MAST)
- Telecom service providers
(AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Global Crossing, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, BellSouth, Singapore Telecom, Telstra, Telecom Italia, Orange, Mannesmann/Vodafone, France Telecom, Bezeq, Korea Telecom)
- Telecom equipment (hardware and software) vendors
(Boston Consulting Group, Monitor Company, Arthur D Little)
- Semiconductor companies
(Intel, Texas Instruments, Motorola, National, Lucent Microelectronics, Advanced Micro Devices, TranSwitch)
- Software companies
(BEA Systems, Siebel, Microsoft, Oracle, GTECH)
- Storage companies
(IBM Storage, EMC, Veritas, Seagate, StorageTek, Shugart).
- Technology assessment
(for information technology (IT) as well as telecom networks; equipment, software and component vendors as well as service providers)
- Investment funds and banks
(Warburg Pincus, Sevin Rosen, General Atlantic, Madison Dearborn, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs. Lehman Brothers, MAST)
- Business economics and strategy
- Regulatory telecomms economics assessment
- Transaction support:
deal structuring, capital fund raising and mergers and acquisitions
- Telia successful acquisition of Tier 1 ISP Aegis
- Global Crossing successful acquisition of Frontier Communications
- Global Crossing unsuccessful acquisition of US West
- SAIC successful acquisition of Bell Communications Research
- SAIC/Bellcore successful spinoff of Tellium
- Uniphase successful acquisition of United Technologies Photonics
- General Instrument successful spinoff of Ciena
We believe that consulting engagements expose Signal Lake to a variety of cutting-edge issues, and provide our portfolio companies with heightened opportunities for developing mutually beneficial relationships with major industry players.
