Malk Partners

What Malk Partners does

• Advises private equity, growth equity, venture capital, credit, real estate, infrastructure and multi-strategy investors on ESG management and impact investing.
• Supports managers throughout the fund and investment lifecycle to mitigate risk, protect reputation and create value.
• Helps clients align with leading frameworks and expectations from stakeholders such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) and limited partners.

ESG management and impact investing

• ESG management refers to integrating environmental stewardship, social responsibility and ethical governance into investment decisions and portfolio management.
• Impact investing focuses on generating positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside financial returns, often aligned with goals such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Mission and commitments

• Mission: provide deep expertise and reliable service so clients can mitigate ESG risks, improve positive impact and satisfy stakeholder concerns.
• Carbon neutral across scope I, II and III greenhouse gas emissions, using renewable energy, efficiency efforts and verified offsets.
• Signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
• Active corporate giving and philanthropy focused on environmental conservation, sustainability and community support.

Relationship with SLR Consulting

• Headquartered in New York City, with a Flatiron district office at 16 W. 22nd St, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010.
• Part of SLR Consulting, a global environmental and advisory services firm, which expands Malk Partners' reach and technical expertise across industries.

• Conducts ESG due diligence reviews at the asset level prior to or during investment.
• Identifies material ESG risks and value-creation opportunities for each transaction.
• Calibrates findings to a high materiality threshold to focus on what is most relevant.
• Supports investors in meeting and exceeding limited partner (LP) expectations on ESG.

Portfolio stewardship and monitoring

• Provides ESG monitoring and portfolio stewardship services throughout the hold period.
• Helps firms manage ESG risks and opportunities across portfolio companies.
• Supports ongoing mitigation of key ESG issues and preparation for exit.

Fund-level ESG advisory

• Designs and helps implement ESG programs at the firm level.
• Services can include:
• ESG policy and playbook development.
• ESG training and education for investment teams.
• LP and stakeholder reporting.
• Alignment with market standards such as UN PRI and SFDR (where applicable).

ESG data services

• Integrates ESG data workstreams into advisory engagements.
• Partners with a technology solution to support data collection and analysis.
• Helps clients use ESG data to assess risk and performance, drive action and report to stakeholders.

Impact investing services

• Supports investors in defining impact theses and targets.
• Integrates impact considerations into deal sourcing, diligence and portfolio management.
• Helps standardize how impact is measured and reported across a portfolio.

ESG value creation and company support

• Works directly with both sponsor-backed and independent companies.
• Builds ESG programs and capabilities that:
• Reduce operational, reputational and regulatory risk.
• Enhance value creation and exit readiness.
• Make companies more attractive to current and future investors.

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New York office

• Address: 16 W. 22nd St., 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010, United States.

Other locations

• Malk Partners supports clients across the US and internationally, with leadership and team members based in locations such as New York, San Diego, Palo Alto and London.

Office hours

• Typical business hours are not specified on the website. For timing-sensitive matters, please include urgency and timeline in your contact form submission so the firm can respond appropriately.

Lists York and Mission as a location. Names New York, United States, Palo Alto, and San Diego as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.

• Hybrid work schedule: generally in-office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with remote work on Monday and Friday.

Professional development and support

• Emphasis on mentorship and growth opportunities.
• Programs such as buddy systems, leadership workshops and continued education options.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in internal practices and in client work.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), including groups focused on BIPOC employees, LGBTQ+ employees and women at Malk, providing community, support and development opportunities.

Community and wellbeing

• Regular social events and a strong "coffee chat" culture to build connections.
• Focus on wellness, including comprehensive health, vision and dental benefits and access to mental health resources where offered.

How to find open roles

• Current career opportunities with Malk Partners are listed on the SLR Consulting careers page, which can be accessed through the careers section of the Malk Partners website.

• Private equity firms.
• Growth equity and expansion investors.
• Venture capital firms.
• Private credit and debt investors.
• Real assets, real estate and infrastructure investors.
• Multi-strategy alternative asset managers.
• Sponsor-backed and independent portfolio companies seeking to strengthen ESG management.

Scale of experience

• Advises investors representing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets under management.
• Conducts ESG and impact due diligence reviews on hundreds of transactions per year, typically in the roughly $25 million to $2 billion enterprise value range.
• Develops ESG programs for dozens of private market investors.

Sector experience

Malk Partners has experience across a broad set of sectors, including:

• Consumer durables and consumer services.
• Consumer retail.
• Energy.
• Financial services and financial technology.
• Food retail and food manufacturing.
• Health care and pharmaceuticals.
• Household and personal products.
• Industrial materials.
• Real estate.
• Software and technology.
• Transportation.

Geographic reach

• Supports investors and companies across multiple regions and geographies.
• Has a growing presence in Europe through dedicated leadership focused on the European market.

• Consultants and subject-matter experts with deep experience in ESG management and impact investing.
• Decades of combined experience designing and implementing ESG programs for private market investors.
• Extensive track record conducting ESG due diligence reviews for private equity and other private market strategies.

Areas of subject-matter expertise

Malk Partners' team includes specialists in areas such as:

• Anti-bribery and corruption.
• Data privacy and cybersecurity.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.
• Ethics and compliance.
• Environmental management and climate-related topics.
• Labor and environmental practices in the supply chain.
• Product and food safety.
• Social and labor conditions and worker health and safety.
• Sustainable branding and related issues.

Leadership overview (examples)

The leadership team includes experienced professionals with backgrounds in:

• ESG and sustainability strategy for investors and operating companies.
• Private equity investing and value-creation.
• Management consulting for technology, financial services and other sectors.
• Building and leading ESG functions within operating companies.

For detailed biographies of individual team members, including education and prior experience, see the team profiles on the Malk Partners website.

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