How Goldenhill uses PitchBook to enrich every mandate

PitchBook’s unmatched universe of privately held company intelligence empowers Goldenhill to deliver a curated, hands-on experience to its global M&A clients. From emerging industry insights to comprehensive buyer lists for sell-side engagements or acquisition target lists for buy-side engagements, PitchBook empowers Goldenhill to achieve strategic objectives with data, research, and visualization tools.

Goldenhill starts every mandate from their own database, built over more than 20 years in the market. Before subscribing to PitchBook, validating and adding to that database was cumbersome, utilizing multiple sources including time-consuming Internet and other searches that were often incomplete or using alternative data products from other vendors.

“We don’t have to scour the internet anymore, like maybe once upon a time. We have much better sources such as PitchBook,” said O’Neill.

Today, PitchBook is how they validate what they know, surface what they don’t, and flag wild cards they’d otherwise miss, including prospects that fall outside their CRM. PitchBook’s depth of coverage has surfaced previously unknown credible acquirers.

Goldenhill uses PitchBook to stay ahead of sector trends, as well as visualizing coverage areas and identifying prospective clients with market maps. Recently they began using the PitchBook Premium Connector, which enables them to access PitchBook data in their Claude subscription. This has fundamentally changed their research workflow.

This research gives Goldenhill a unique capacity to impress prospects with a sell-side opportunity. For example, the firm can walk into a first meeting with a sell-side founder, armed with something many advisors can’t offer: a complete universe of potential acquirers or acquisition targets.

“We’re able to sit with them with a very well-curated list of buyers, what they do, how many transactions they’ve done, who their investors are, whether they’re PE-backed, VC-backed, or independent. We’re able to present a well-qualified potential list of acquirers,” he said.

Founders almost always prepare a short list. PitchBook makes it possible for Goldenhill to expand that thinking.

PitchBook enables Goldenhill to remain competitive with the most comprehensive, accurate and timely private capital market intelligence. PitchBook continues to evolve with Goldenhill’s needs as it delivers a tailored experience to its clients around the world.