Pearl Meyer Acquires Ampersand Leadership Group

Coalesce Capital Majority Recapitalizes Pearl Meyer & Partners

January 7, 2025

Consulting

Coalesce Capital completed a majority recapitalization investment in Pearl Meyer & Partners, with Main Street Capital Corporation exiting its debt and equity investments. Pearl Meyer, a Wellesley, Massachusetts-based leader in executive compensation and leadership consulting, will partner with Coalesce to support the firm's next phase of growth.

Coalesce Capital Majority Recapitalizes Pearl Meyer

January 6, 2025

Consulting

Coalesce Capital has completed a majority growth recapitalization of executive compensation and leadership consultancy Pearl Meyer, with Pearl Meyer's management retaining a meaningful stake. The investment will support Pearl Meyer's next phase of growth through talent development, the addition of complementary capabilities and service areas, and investments to enhance client service capabilities; existing minority institutional investors have exited.

Pearl Meyer Acquires Blake Street Group

June 17, 2024

Professional Services

Boston-based executive compensation and leadership consulting firm Pearl Meyer has acquired Blake Street Group (BSG), a boutique leadership consultancy that provides human capital due diligence, organizational readiness, and leadership development to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Blake Street, founded in 2007, has about 19 employees and offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco; the acquisition expands Pearl Meyer’s private equity-focused leadership and compensation capabilities.

Pearl Meyer Acquires The River Group

September 20, 2023

Consulting

Pearl Meyer has acquired The River Group, a boutique consultancy that provides executive assessment, coaching, succession planning and organizational-design services to CEOs and executive teams. The acquisition expands Pearl Meyer’s leadership practice and deepens its capabilities in executive development and organizational effectiveness.

Ascent Acquires Ampersand to Expand Student Success and Professional Development Offerings

July 27, 2023

Education

Ascent, a San Diego-based student lending and student success provider, has acquired Ampersand, a web-based professional development platform for early-career professionals. The acquisition adds Ampersand’s library of asynchronous training content and its founder Allie Danziger to Ascent’s student success team to deepen career-readiness services and close the education-to-employment skills gap.

Pearl Meyer Acquires Yaffe & Company

September 15, 2020

Consulting

Executive compensation and leadership consulting firm Pearl Meyer has acquired Yaffe & Company, a specialist in executive compensation, governance, physician advisory, and faculty compensation serving not‑for‑profit healthcare systems and higher education institutions. The acquisition brings Alexander Yaffe and his team into Pearl Meyer as part of an effort to deepen the firm's capabilities and client coverage in healthcare and higher education.