Most groups end up hiring three firms: one for the tax position, one for the deal, and someone else to build the systems that carry both. Then they own every gap in between. Huntley Cross puts a named partner on the tax and transaction position and a named consultant on the engineering, working a single workplan, so the deal and the systems that carry it answer to the same table.
Readiness audits, production systems, automation and analytics. Engineered, not advised on from a slide.
Transaction tax, M&A and financial advisory, delivered with specialist partners named to you at scoping.
Risk frameworks, digital transformation and strategy work built to survive contact with delivery.
A transaction carries a tax position, a structure, and systems that have to hold it up afterwards. Ask three firms and you get three answers, three workplans and three sets of assumptions, and every gap between them is yours to own. A named partner on the tax and transaction position and a named consultant on the systems, working from one workplan, is the whole reason this firm exists.
Transaction tax and deal structures fail in the schedules, not the headline. That is where the exposure sits, and it is the first thing a thin diligence process skips.
Reconciliation, document handling, reporting, chasing. The operational load around a structure absorbs the capacity you hired for judgement, and it compounds every quarter it is left alone.
Tax, transactions and technology run in separate rooms, on separate workplans, answering to different owners. The risk lives in the seam, and nobody is accountable for it.
These are outcomes our partners delivered in prior engagements, not Huntley Cross firm aggregates. Each is discussed in full at scoping. Firm-level results will be published as mandates close, with named-client consent.
Most advisory relationships fracture at the handover: the tax adviser does not own the deal, the deal team does not own the systems, and nobody owns the join. Huntley Cross is built the other way round. A named person carries each discipline, they work the same mandate together, and the person who scopes the work governs the delivery. No hand-off from pitch to delivery, no junior team learning on your engagement, and no anonymous "Big Four" placeholder.
Both are named and verifiable on the leadership page: Sri Krishnan, partner, on finance, tax and transaction advisory, and Dhanu Nagarajan, consultant, on the AI and data systems. Practitioners on the delivery team are introduced by name under NDA when their workstream is in scope.
Four phases. One named owner. No handoff. The person who scopes the work governs the delivery.
A 30-minute partner conversation. Bring one active decision. Leave with a clear workplan.
We interrogate the data, frame the decision, and surface the risks the board has not yet seen.
Board-ready recommendation with governance, KPIs, and milestone gates aligned to the business case.
We stay through delivery. Milestones tracked, risks retired, outcomes reported against the business case.
Two partner-led practices that are used to working the same mandate, plus a short list of genuinely external specialists we will name rather than pretend to be. One workplan, one accountable owner across all of it.
Cross-jurisdictional structuring, treaty analysis, transaction-tax diligence and defensible positions where the numbers are contested.
How the group is put together and how the transaction is executed, including diligence governance and day-one sequencing.
The arrangements around the individuals and families who own the business, built to stay workable after completion.
Financial analysis, margin programmes and the governance a board and a lender will both accept.
Production RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks, semantic caching and query routing.
n8n and custom pipelines, LLM-driven ops, document parsing, and content generation with quality gates.
Fraud detection, classification, time-series, real-time feature engineering on structured data.
Full-stack delivery, MLOps (drift, retraining, A/B), production observability and infrastructure.
Cross-border restructuring and insolvency support through licensed practitioners. This work requires a licence we do not hold, so we introduce the practitioner by name rather than claim it.
CFO-level advisory on capital allocation and funding structure, brought in by referral and introduced by name before any substantive work begins.
Illustrative situations, not delivered case studies. Specific named or banded mandates, with the named owner, the year and a third-party reference, are shared during a scoping call.
Trigger: Mid-cap acquirer needs integration control across multiple jurisdictions.
What we do: Redesign diligence governance and day-one sequencing; one accountable owner across legal, tax, finance, and operations.
M&A AdvisoryTrigger: Operator facing rising cost-to-serve and margin compression with a board cycle to land a recovery plan.
What we do: Align portfolio choices with finance and commercial cadences, then govern the programme to lender-grade evidence.
Financial AdvisoryTrigger: Multi-entity group needs to modernise without disrupting service or control.
What we do: Phase the transformation into board-visible gates with a single execution office and KPI ownership.
Digital TransformationNo junior staffing. No pitch-to-delivery handoff. One mandate, one governance, one accountable owner.
The person who scopes the work governs the delivery. No handoff to junior teams after the pitch.
Multi-jurisdictional delivery with local regulatory context. Not a network of referrals, one team, one governance.
We do not stop at the recommendation. We govern implementation, track milestones, and report against the business case.
We govern toward a measurable financial outcome, not hours billed, not reports delivered.
Mandates we deliver are confidential by default. We will not publish a quote with a fabricated-sounding job title and a generic sector tag, the pattern reads as marketing copy, and that hurts the cases we can actually substantiate.
What we will do, before you commit to anything, is the following:
The working thesis behind every mandate we take.
A 30-minute conversation with a partner, not an analyst. We will tell you what is underneath it and what it would take to fix. No pitch deck. No intake form.