Kari Hughes
Private equity deal teams live with structural complexity that never sits still. Fund structures, SPVs, co-investments, portfolio company ownership — all of it evolving as capital moves, deals close, and governance layers stack up. The tools most teams still lean on were never built for this: spreadsheets show cells, not relationships; slide decks show shapes, not systems. So when an LP asks for a clean, current picture of the structure, the answer is usually a scramble.
Structural Intelligence changes what “current” means. Instead of rebuilding structures by hand every time something shifts, deal teams can work from a single connected model — fund structures, SPVs, portfolio companies, and governance layers, all in one place, all reflecting the latest state of the deal.
That shift shows up where it matters most:
- Faster investment committee decisions, made in a shared, real-time visual structure instead of a deck that’s already out of date
- Earlier visibility into risk, with structural and regulatory complexity surfaced before capital is locked in, not after close
- Less manual rebuilding, since structures generate from underlying data instead of being redrawn for every revision
- Stronger alignment across the table — investment committees, LPs, and advisors working from the same current model instead of reconciling versions
The structures that create returns are the same ones that create operational risk if nobody’s watching them closely enough. Being able to stress-test a change — a new investment, a refinancing, a restructuring — before committing to it is what separates teams reacting to complexity from teams operating ahead of it.
Our latest guide, StructureFlow for Private Equity, looks at how deal teams are moving from scattered spreadsheets and static diagrams to one living model — and what that means for diligence speed, decision confidence, and how firms show up in front of investment committees and LPs.
Download the full guide below to see how it works.
Real-world impact
If there's one thing you need to know, it's everything.
Sam Whitman
Director of Knowledge Management
Holland & Knight LLP
StructureFlow significantly reduces the amount of time taken to create diagrams, making it easy for our lawyers to pivot and adapt a structure based on our clients' needs.
Walter Clark
Partner
Pinsent Masons
StructureFlow stands out because it is genuinely fixing a real problem making it so much easier for our lawyers to generate top quality group structure charts, which our clients love as well.
Nick Grandage
Global Head of Banking & Finance
Norton Rose Fulbright
The biggest benefit from StructureFlow is how it has improved our discussions with clients. It makes us a better law firm.
Nick Pryor
Director of Knowledge & Innovation
Freeths
We use StructureFlow as a communication tool, a collaboration tool, with the third parties we work with — clients, accountants, private equity. There is so much room to grow and put StructureFlow in the center of that.
Greg Baker
Global Head of Practice Innovation
Linklaters LLP
StructureFlow is now an integral part of our tech workbench, enhancing the client and lawyer experience and driving efficiency.
