Glowside is a consulting boutique specializing in Strategy, Corporate Finance and M&A. It was founded in 2017 by Ricardo Sousa Valles and Paula Oliveira Marto, who bring together extensive experience consolidated over several years working at Big 4 consulting companies. We were born out of the desire to surround ourselves with people we identify with (clients, consultants and partners), and our mission is to establish lasting relationships with our clients, enabling them to grow, and training the best consultants to deliver maximum value in all the projects we are involved in. We provide financial and management advice to CEOs, Boards, Shareholders and Entrepreneurs in various sectors, from Pharma & Biotechnology, Construction & Real Estate to Energy and Sustainability. We focus on the development of our clients' businesses and act in a way that sustains the creation of value, restructuring and preparing organizations for their future strategy and for market transformations. Our team also has experience advising more than Eur 200 M in transactions, mostly cross-border, offering an integrated M&A and Strategy approach with the aim of supporting solid investment and business decisions. Our values are: EXCELLENCE – High degree of experience and international exposure, delivering complex projects with excellence in the strictest principles of confidentiality. RELIABILITY – Our responsiveness is considered above market average and is guaranteed by the agility of “high performing small teams”, proximity to the decision maker and continuous involvement of our partners in the projects we develop. TRUST – History of clients with whom we have collaborated for more than a decade, in the most varied domains, sharing and debating visions about the future.