Structural Architect
Knows, intuitively, structures to make things happen. Understands rights, obligations and opportunities others gloss over or can’t see. Manages legal functions to deliver results that work — in record time, at minimal cost.
When your playbook runs out, our work begins.
Transactional advisory. For boards, companies and investors in special situations that demand skill, clarity & conviction.
Trusted by sponsors, corporate management and investors.
Three Disciplines, One Focus
A structural architect, a crisis operator and an investment strategist, in one place.
Crisis Operator
Steps into situations under extreme pressure as CRO, in radical transition as CTO, or as a trusted advisor in a fractional capacity. Makes calls others won’t. Identifies and roots out toxic elements so the culture can rebuild.
Investment Strategist
The discipline of deploying significant capital — knowing what something is worth when others are panicking. Thirty years across venture and distressed positions, including the deals that defined the modern market.
The Theme
Every situation has a way through. The work is finding it before the maze closes.
Read more about our workSelected Transactions
Where we rewrote the playbook when the work began.
A handful of representative engagements across restructuring, transformation, liquidation and special situations. Each began as a crisis, or unique situation, where the standard tools would not function.
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01 Ongoing
Chief Restructuring Officer
Titan Transportation
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02 Closed
Chief Transformation Officer
Loot Crate
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03 Closed
Chief Liquidation Officer
Performance Sports Group
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04 Closed
Special Situations Advisor
Energy XXI
About Mark Palmer
Three critical skill-sets …
a single advisory focus.
Theseus Strategy Group is the practice that aligns these three skill sets in a unified offering:
- A leading partner, practice-leader and legal architect.
- A crisis and turn-around operator managing under fire.
- An investment strategist whose work set precedent, made law and helped mold the modern venture and distressed markets.
Mark E. Palmer Founder & Managing Director
Read the full backgroundThe Thread
Three organizing principles, drawn from lessons learned solving the unsolvable.
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Bring new perspectives.
The work begins after others have left the room. We re-evaluate assumptions and refine perspectives. Boards in crisis, funds in trapped positions, companies mired in expensive and intractable dilemmas. That's our typical entry point.
02
Find driving principles.
Every labyrinthine problem has a root cause. Can we find the patterns and muster the conviction to reverse them? Toxic incentives, structural defects, historical inertia, unmade decisions. The work is identifying them and assaulting through.
03
Preserve your options.
In uncertain situations, your options and off-ramps are key. Any plan needs alternative paths to success. Leave a way to adjust the approach. Discipline, experience, conviction and sequence, that's the proven method.
Selected Prior Engagements
Standard Pacific
WorldCom
Nortel
TOUSA
Quility
Global Aviation
and others under NDA
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