Operating leadership, transaction advisory, and board engagement for founder-owned businesses and their partners across the Southeast and East Coast.
Where operating experience and transaction expertise meet.
We work with founder-owned and family-held businesses at consequential moments — ownership transitions, new capital relationships, strategic inflection points, and the periods of growth that follow. Our background is in operations. Our orientation is long-term.
Lanneau Partners works at the intersection of operations, transactions, and governance. We engage with businesses and their owners at moments that matter — and with the capital partners who work alongside them.
What distinguishes our work is direct operating experience. We have run businesses, managed through complexity, and navigated the decisions that matter most — always from the inside, never at arm's length. That perspective informs every engagement, whether advisory, operating, or transactional.
We work with a select number of situations at any given time. The engagements tend to be substantive and the relationships tend to be long.
Independent board service, chairman roles, and strategic counsel for founder-owned and sponsor-backed businesses. We bring an operating perspective to governance — the kind that helps owners and management teams navigate real decisions, not simply oversee them.
Advisory support across the full transaction spectrum — from early positioning and evaluation through process management and closing. We have worked on both sides of the table and understand what it takes to reach outcomes that work for founders, employees, and capital partners alike.
Hands-on operating engagement for businesses in transition — post-acquisition integration, leadership gaps, growth inflection, or platform development. We step in where experience creates tangible value and stay engaged through the work that follows.
Whether you are a founder thinking through what comes next, a capital partner looking for experienced operating involvement, or an intermediary with a situation that may be a fit — a direct note is the right place to begin. We respond to every inquiry personally.
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