Harborhill & Crane

Selected engagements

Outcomes our clients let us put on the record.

Most of our work is confidential. The engagements below are shared with our clients’ permission — each one a decision that mattered, measured the way the board measured it.

Financial Services · Meridian Capital

Repositioning a regional bank for a national balance sheet

A $48B regional bank faced flat deposit growth and a fragmented product set. We rebuilt the commercial segment strategy and rationalized 40% of the product catalog within a single planning cycle.

Harborhill did not bring us a deck. They brought us a decision — and then they stayed until it held.

Chair of the Board, Meridian Capital
+38%
Commercial deposit growth in 18 months
$210M
Run-rate cost taken out of the franchise
11 pts
Improvement in efficiency ratio

Industrials · Whitford Industrial

An operational turnaround that outlasted the crisis

A 70-year-old manufacturer was losing money on two of three product lines. We stabilized the P&L in one quarter, released working capital, and rebuilt the operating cadence that held the gains.

They sat on the factory floor before they sat in our boardroom. That is why the plan actually worked.

Chief Executive Officer, Whitford Industrial
$94M
Working capital released in year one
+640bps
EBITDA margin recovery
0
Lines closed — all three returned to profit

Healthcare · Cardinal Health Group

A post-merger integration that kept the science intact

Cardinal Health Group acquired Verena Pharmaceuticals for its pipeline. We led the integration that captured synergies on schedule while protecting the research teams that made the deal worth doing.

The synergies arrived on time. More importantly, the scientists stayed. Harborhill understood the difference.

President, Cardinal Health Group
$320M
Annual synergies captured by Day 365
96%
Retention of senior research staff
100 days
To a single operating model

$140B

In transactions advised since 1998

27

Years partnering with boards

24

Industries served worldwide

92%

Of clients re-engage within three years

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