MacArthur: PE due diligence relies on external data unlike corporate consulting
Hugh MacArthur · Hugh MacArthur – Private Equity's Challenges and Opportunities (EP.453) · Jun 23, 2025 · at 10:15
Hugh MacArthur, Chairman of Bain & Company's Global Private Equity Practice, explains the structural methodological differences between corporate management consulting and private equity deal diligence.
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“In corporate consulting, You tend to look at a company from the inside. They hire you. You get all of their data. You figure out where their opportunities and their problems are, and you try to solve them. Well, in the private equity world, it's different. You're looking at a target. You don't have all of their data. You're looking very much at external data to try and understand how fast is the industry really growing, and what's pricing going to do, and do customers like you better than the competitors or not?”
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