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Deal and back-office support for boutique investment banks
Boutique banks run lean deal teams. Fundtec provides trained analysts for pipeline, diligence, modeling support and the firm’s own finance, so bankers spend their time on clients.
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Operations support for boutique investment banks covers the work around a transaction and the firm itself: deal pipeline tracking, due diligence coordination and data rooms, financial modeling and analysis support, bookkeeping, billing and compliance filing preparation. Fundtec provides these services to boutique banks and advisory firms through dedicated analysts working in the firm’s systems, under the supervision of its bankers and principals.
Firms of this type, whether they need full administration, a middle office, or capacity added to an existing team.
A 30-minute scoping call, then a written plan: scope, the transition timeline and indicative pricing. No generic proposal.
Why boutique banks use an operating partner
A boutique investment bank competes on senior attention. Its bankers win mandates on relationships and judgement, but each live deal generates weeks of work: data room builds, diligence request lists, model updates, comparable company tables, process letters and follow-ups. The firm itself also needs books closed, retainers billed and compliance filings prepared.
Fundtec provides a dedicated team for both sides. Deal-support analysts work under your bankers on pipeline, diligence and analysis. Finance analysts keep the firm’s general ledger, billing and filing data current. Advice to clients, valuation opinions and regulated activities remain with your registered professionals.
Support we provide to boutique banks
Deal pipeline
Mandate and prospect tracking in your CRM, with stage, next steps and fee expectations reported weekly.
Due diligence coordination
Request lists, response tracking and follow-up between buyers, sellers, advisers and management.
Data rooms
Virtual data room setup, indexing, permissions administration and version control under your direction.
Financial modeling support
Model build and maintenance, scenario updates, comparable company and precedent transaction tables.
Analysis and materials
Financial statement spreading, benchmarking and drafts of charts and tables for pitch and process materials.
Bookkeeping
The firm’s journal entries, bank reconciliation, expense coding and monthly close.
Billing
Retainer and success fee invoicing, expense reimbursement tracking and receivables follow-up.
Compliance filings
Data preparation and document organization for periodic filings, for review and submission by your compliance officer.
How the deal-support team works with bankers
Each deal has a named analyst lead who joins the internal deal calls, keeps the diligence tracker current and turns model and materials requests around to agreed timelines. Work follows your templates and formatting standards, and every output is reviewed by the deal team before it reaches a client or counterparty. Between deals, the same analysts maintain the pipeline, refresh comparable company data and keep precedent transaction databases current, so each new pitch starts from up-to-date material.
When the firm sponsors a vehicle for a transaction, such as a deal SPV or co-investment structure, Fundtec can also support investor onboarding, capital calls and SPV bookkeeping. That keeps post-close administration with the team that knows the deal and gives investors consistent reporting from the start. See our placement agent and family office pages for the investor side of co-investments.
What each Fundtec offering does for a boutique investment bank
Use cases
Middle office
Deal-support tasks by transaction stage
| Stage | Deal team focus | Fundtec support |
|---|---|---|
| Pitch | Relationship and positioning | Company research, comparables, pitch book drafts |
| Preparation | Strategy and materials | Model build, data room setup, teaser and CIM data |
| Marketing | Buyer or investor outreach | Contact tracking, NDA log, process letters |
| Due diligence | Negotiation and issue resolution | Request tracker, data room administration, model updates |
| Closing | Documentation and execution | Closing checklist, funds flow data, fee invoice |
| Post-close | Client follow-up | Billing, receivables, deal file archiving |
Controls for confidential deal work
- Work only in firm systems through firm-issued accounts
- Deal-by-deal access permissions and information barriers
- No local storage; full audit trail of activity
- Confidentiality undertakings for every team member
- ISO 27001 certified information security
- Named team with trained backups and documented BCP
Engagement model
How an engagement is structured
Economics aligned to your growth. Scope, cadence and pricing are confirmed jointly in the first phase.
- 01 · Weeks 1–4
Onboarding & design
A phase-linked fee covers process mapping, the operational handbook, systems access and the SLA framework — before any handover.
- Target operating model
- Operational handbook
- SLAs agreed jointly
- 02 · From the parallel run
Monthly base fee
Your dedicated team, pod manager oversight and the governance cadence — daily huddle, weekly review, monthly service review, QBR.
- Named PM → SME
- Trained backup for every role
- Governance included
- 03 · As you grow
Scales with AUM
AUM-linked tiers and pre-agreed triggers for new mandates or counterparties — so growth never means renegotiating the contract.
- Transparent triggers
- No renegotiation
- Quarterly pricing review
Every engagement starts with a scoping call — no obligation, no generic proposal.
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Common questions about Boutique Investment Banks
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What can a boutique investment bank outsource to Fundtec?
Boutique banks typically use Fundtec for deal pipeline tracking, due diligence coordination, data room management, financial modeling and analysis support, and the firm’s own bookkeeping, billing and compliance filing preparation. Client advice, valuation opinions and regulated activities remain with the firm’s bankers and registered principals.
Can Fundtec analysts build financial models for our deals?
Yes. Fundtec analysts build and maintain operating models, update scenarios, prepare comparable company and precedent transaction tables and spread financial statements, working to your templates and under your bankers’ review. The deal team owns the assumptions and conclusions presented to clients.
How do you manage virtual data rooms?
Fundtec sets up the data room structure, indexes documents, administers user permissions on your instructions and tracks diligence requests and responses. Every upload and permission change is logged. The deal team decides what is disclosed and to whom; Fundtec keeps the room organized, current and auditable.
Do you keep the books for the bank itself?
Yes. Fundtec maintains the firm’s general ledger, reconciles bank accounts, codes expenses, runs the monthly close and prepares management accounts. Billing covers retainers, success fees and expense reimbursements, with receivables tracked to collection. Financial statements support your external accountant or auditor.
Does Fundtec prepare compliance filings?
Fundtec prepares the data and organizes the supporting documents for periodic filings, working from your compliance calendar. Review, sign-off and submission remain with your compliance officer and principals. This division keeps regulatory responsibility with the firm while reducing the time its staff spend assembling information.
How is deal confidentiality protected?
Analysts work only in your systems through accounts you issue, with access permissions set deal by deal and no local storage. Each team member signs confidentiality undertakings and follows your information barriers. Fundtec is ISO 27001 certified, and every action is recorded in an audit trail.
Can support scale up during a busy deal period?
Yes. The core team handles steady-state pipeline and finance work, and cross-trained analysts can be added during live processes with heavy diligence or modeling demands. Because they already know your templates and systems, added capacity becomes productive quickly and steps back once the deal closes.
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