Mission Statement

Violy & Company is a world renowned strategic boutique financial advisory firm with unique expertise in Ibero-American markets and advisory of family-owned groups and multinational companies. Violy & Company is the home for extremely complex and challenging deals that are brought to fruition with the firm's personal attention, unique methodologies, and a proven approach. The firm's focus is based on value-enhancing strategies for the global marketplace with an expertise on navigating emerging markets with great upside, and an impeccable track record of success and critical acclaim.
For the past 12 years, Violy & Company has closed over US$120 billion in completed transactions, with partners who together have over 60 years of complementary experience. With flagship offices in New York City and Bogota, Colombia, we also maintain affiliate locations in Spain, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and the Caribbean. Our Advisory Board includes members from throughout the Americas and Europe who are actively engaged in all of our projects.
Violy & Company’s collaborative local-global approach brings together relationships between our clients, Advisory Board members, Professionals, and network of Affiliates for maximum success in each transaction. Furthermore, our teamwork and 360-degree thinking helps to identify unforeseen risks and challenges to create unique solutions that other firms had not considered or even seen to be possible. This is the basis of the company’s motto: The Art of the Possible. The founder, Violy has always said, there are no impossible tasks, only incapable people. It is in this spirit that Violy & Company brings it's clients great success by working smart with great perserverance and the interests of the client first and foremost,excited by the challenges that may present themselves.
V & Co Core Values
Violy & Company's philosophy is rooted in putting our clients' interests first, beyond our own, and this is our principal priority. Consequently, in the last decade alone, we have foregone success fees of approximately US$270 million by recommending against transactions with an aggregate value of over US$9 billion, because either in the near future or in the long run they would have been damaging to our clients. Our clients work with us again and again because of this fact, and we are invested in our relationships with them, and their long term well being.
• Strategic Orientation: At Violy and Company, we always begin by identifying our clients’ objectives. Our approach is thorough with a macroeconomic understanding of the business and market environment and a comprehensive approach to ally these objectives with opportune market conditions.
• Analytics and Research Focus: Our in-depth regional knowledge, strong analytical and research capabilities, and network of trusted affiliates affords our clients unparalleled insight into the market.
• Senior Consultative Thinking: Our high-level contacts create greater opportunities for our clients and facilitate the development and implementation of creative solutions for complex business situations.
At Violy and Company, our obsession is our client. At large investment banks, the human element is often overlooked and intricate details get lost in translation. We focus on the art of business -- from the perspective of the people and families we work with, to the intricate details that can get lost at a large institution. We understand the synergistic balance of value enhancement and risk minimization creating paths to enhance value and minimize risk. We address our clients’ needs with the utmost objectivity, bringing the necessary resources to ensure their success. "No Hay Cosas Imposibles Sino Personas Incapaces"
Carlos Dieppa"I love to advise businesses, And expect the relationships to last A lifetime."
Violy McCausland
