For the searchers and acquirers who need more than a spreadsheet. We've built, bought, run, and sold consumer brands. We work alongside you through diligence — making sense of the financials, inventory, brand, and channels — and through the post-acquisition plan that turns the deal into a business that runs.
Self-funded searchers, search funds, and independent sponsors evaluating businesses where the numbers tell only half the story. If the target lives or dies on brand, inventory, merchandising, sourcing, and customer loyalty, that's exactly where we've spent our careers.
Send us the CIM, financials, and data room. We work through it with you — translating the numbers, naming the risks an operator sees that diligence misses, and giving you a clear go/no-go.
On-call operator judgment through your search and diligence. Bring a target, a thesis, or a thorny question and get a straight, experienced read from people who have run these businesses. NDA-friendly.
Won the deal? We build the post-acquisition business plan and implement it with you — the first 100 days, merchandising, sourcing, margin, brand, and growth across DTC, wholesale, and retail.
A complimentary 20 minutes to confirm we're the right partners for your deal.
We sign your NDA; you share the CIM, financials, and data room.
A written read on the real risks, then a working session to talk them through.
Go / no-go clarity — and a partner for the run if you close.
"She was able to dissect our business idea and lead us down various paths to market. She clearly explained the risks and advantages of each — and in the course of 45 minutes we felt as though we knew how to proceed."
"Tamar Daniel is a true entrepreneur — the visionary skills to innovate and the drive to succeed. A strong leader, both courageous and collaborative; great conviction in her vision, yet always open to new ideas and constructive critique."
Leeward Partners is led by founder Tamar Daniel — founder and owner of Liv Brands, a portfolio of profitable small businesses she's launched, acquired, owned, and operated. She built ready-to-wear label TUXE from zero into Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Net-a-Porter — featured in Vogue and on Oprah, worn by Meghan Markle — before it was acquired by Velvet Global in 2019.
Trained in fashion design, she learned the business the hard way: sourcing and merchandising at Topshop and Anthropologie; product lines into Target, Barnes & Noble, ASOS, and the Met. That operating depth is what we bring to every deal — telling you which risks are survivable and which are not.
We work alongside you through diligence and well beyond it — into the post-acquisition business plan and its implementation. Bring us a deal and you get candor, not cheerleading.
Book a call, or send us the deal and we'll tell you where the risk really is.
Happy to sign an NDA before any materials change hands.