CONSTELLATION
EXPERT financial and strategic advice for start-ups // empowerING entrepreneurs, founders and management teams // SUPPORTING LONG-TERM VALUE-CREATION.
ABOUT
Constellation provides expert financial and strategic advice to early-stage, high-growth companies.
Our mission is to support long-term value-creation in the companies that we advise.
Engagements are bespoke based on client needs. In every case, we leverage global best-practice from a career in financial services, including working for one of the world’s best investors.
Because we understand how valuable corporates and financial institutions work, and how smart investors think, we bring experience and perspective that stands out in the advisory market.
The result is tailored financial support, delivered with conviction, to help clients create long-term, lasting value.
SERVICES
All engagements are bespoke, tailored to specific client needs.
We can assist with core financial processes like budgeting and reporting. We can support corporate finance objectives, such as financial modelling and strategic planning. And we can guide companies through transformative processes including raising capital and M&A.
Our most comprehensive engagement structure enables us to sit in the CFO seat for clients until they are ready to make a permanent hire. Services can also be provided based on a one-off basis, based on specific deliverables or outputs.
FP&A, forecasting, budgeting
P&L, growth and profitability
Cash management
Reporting
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
Financial modelling
Valuation
Investment analysis
Structuring
CORPORATE FINANCE
Strategic planning
Business plan development
Research and analysis
Org / governance support
STRATEGY
Equity / raising capital
Debt
M&A
Due diligence
PROCESS MANAGEMENT
CLIENTS
Constellation works with mission-driven companies, led by talented founders who are unafraid to challenge the status quo.
INVESTMENTS
We back our advice, and we back our clients.
Constellation invests in the companies that we advise. Investing in clients allows us to benefit from long-term value creation, and operational involvement is the best way to protect the value of our investments.
LEADERSHIP
Tom Latimour founded Constellation after a career spanning investment banking and private equity.
In 2014, Tom started at Jarden, a full-service investment bank based in New Zealand, after training with Credit Suisse in New York. At Jarden, Tom worked for some of New Zealand’s largest and most valuable companies, across advisory, equity, debt and M&A.
From 2017 until 2023, Tom worked in London as an investment professional at the $112 billion investment fund, Global Infrastructure Partners. During his time at GIP, Tom worked across the full investment life-cycle, including originating and executing investments and financings, portfolio management, and exits, in both the transport and energy sectors. GIP is regarded as one of the world’s leading investors, with a disciplined investment approach and comprehensive operational expertise that focuses on improving businesses for the long-term. GIP was purchased by Blackrock in 2024.
Today, Tom leads Constellation from London, focusing on applying his expertise to the world of early-stage companies.