What

we do

We generate extraordinary value for our clients by solving complex, often emergency situations, through a full spectrum of strategic, financial, operational, and organizational services, offered in the form of advisory, implementation, or interim management.
We generate extraordinary value for our clients by solving complex, often emergency situations, through a full spectrum of strategic, financial, operational, and organizational services, offered in the form of advisory, implementation, or interim management.

Business (Re)Structuring

  • Organizational (Re)Structuring
  • Operational (Re)Structuring
  • Financial (Re)Structuring
When we talk about organization, in the business context, we refer to three pilars: how a company organizes its work, how it organizes its people and how it manages itself. We organize the work through processes & systems, policies & governance; people through organizational structures and profile of the respective occupants; and its management through systematic control and permanent evaluation of processes and/or results designed to promote continuous improvement.

Our projects of Organizational (Re)Structuring, therefore, evaluate the environment and the scenario in which the company finds itself and (re)define one or more pillars that determine how the company should organize to work with greater efficacy.
How a company operates refers essentially to the structure of its value chain, therefore, how it produces and delivers what it sells and how it relates and interacts with the parts that depend on it (its clients, partners, etc.) and with the parts on which it depends (its suppliers, partners, etc.).

Our projects of Operational (Re)structuring evaluate all these variables exclusively and also in an combined form, pondering how they relate or could relate among them; and so, we (re)define one or more of the pillars that constitute the value chain of the company, finding the best configuration for it.
Financial Restructuring projects typically translate into debt re-profiling projects. We seek new terms and cost conditions, either with current creditors or with new ones, aiming to re-equate the payment flow to the company's cash generation capacity, or even simply adjust the cost of debt to any more favorable market conditions.

Strategy

  • Planning 
  • Organizational (Re)Structuring
Planning takes various forms, from the simplest, such as a budget, to the most complete, such as a strategic plan based on market research and competitive analysis. Taking on various names, such as Budget, Business Case, Business Plan, Strategic Planning, etc., the essence of our planning projects is to understand where you are, where you want to go and how you intend to get there. Thus, what differentiates one project from another are the levels of scope, depth and complexity.
When we talk about organization, in the business context, we refer to three pilars: how a company organizes its work, how it organizes its people and how it manages itself. We organize the work through processes & systems, policies & governance; people through organizational structures and profile of the respective occupants; and its management through systematic control and permanent evaluation of processes and/or results designed to promote continuous improvement.

Our projects of Organizational (Re)Structuring, therefore, evaluate the environment and the scenario in which the company finds itself and (re)define one or more pillars that determine how the company should organize to work with greater efficacy.

Corporate Finance

  • Capital Raising
  • Financial (Re)Structuring
We raise capital – debt or equity – through our extensive network of relationships in the financial market, from family offices, funds to investment banks.

These resources are used to finance Growth situations, be it a new project or new business units of mature enterprises, be it a startup, or even acquisition for inorganic growth. We can also raise new resources as part of a Financial Restructuring project.
Financial Restructuring projects typically translate into debt re-profiling projects. We seek new terms and cost conditions, either with current creditors or with new ones, aiming to re-equate the payment flow to the company's cash generation capacity, or even simply adjust the cost of debt to any more favorable market conditions.

M & A

  • Planning 
  • Capital Raising
Planning takes various forms, from the simplest, such as a budget, to the most complete, such as a strategic plan based on market research and competitive analysis. Taking on various names, such as Budget, Business Case, Business Plan, Strategic Planning, etc., the essence of our planning projects is to understand where you are, where you want to go and how you intend to get there. Thus, what differentiates one project from another are the levels of scope, depth and complexity.
We raise capital – debt or equity – through our extensive network of relationships in the financial market, from family offices, funds to investment banks.

These resources are used to finance Growth situations, be it a new project or new business units of mature enterprises, be it a startup, or even acquisition for inorganic growth. We can also raise new resources as part of a Financial Restructuring project.
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Our

history

RGF was founded in 2012 when Riccardo Gambarotto (RG) and Gian Filli (GF) decided to create the first consultancy that works with an owner's perspective. But our story begins much before our foundation.

Learn about the journey that brought us here.
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1995

Beginning

When it all started

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Riccardo Gambarotto, José Diniz, and Ricardo K founded GDK & Associates, the first consultancy with a focus on project implementation, a pioneering model that proved to be very aligned with the desires of skeptical business owners and executives with the effectiveness of traditional consultancy projects.

1997

Expansion

A bit of our history

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The continued success of GDK attracts Edson Vaz Musa, known for his successful career leading Rhodia for over 10 years, to join the company which is now called MGDK & Associates. In this move, two new divisions are created in addition to the consulting division: interim management and new businesses.

1998

New Owners

The definitive leap

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Monitor Co., a company owned by Michael Porter and other Harvard professors, acquires MGDK as a strategy for entering Brazil.

2012

New Phase

RGF is born

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Riccardo Gambarotto (RG) decides to invite Gian Filli (GF), former consultant at GDK, MGDK, and Monitor, to create a reinterpretation of the old GDK: the first consultancy to work with a owner's perspective, that is, also aimed at skeptical entrepreneurs and executives with the effectiveness of traditional consultancy projects. Thus the RGF is born.

2020

Jaraguá Capital

New Futures

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With the exponential success of RGF, achieved with dozens of business transformations over its first 8 years of life, Jaraguá Capital is born, the investment arm of RGF, with the acquisition of Fedrigoni Brasil Papéis, which became Blendpaper, manufacturer of banknote paper (the only one in Latin America), security papers (used for passports, visas, bank checks, tax documents, meal vouchers, etc.) and a wide range of special papers (artistic and graphic).

What

We've Done

We present some of our projects that transformed the companies in which we worked.
Our cases

Food for thought

Here we share some of the learnings acquired during the transformation processes we promoted in the companies where we acted.
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