The Portco EBITDA Protection & Fractional ER Retainer
Standardizing employee relations across Private Equity portfolios to manage operational risk, prevent costly compliance gaps, and defend your investment thesis.
Defending Portfolio Margins with Standardized ER Operations
In mid-market Private Equity, human capital is often the single largest operational cost center—and the highest source of regulatory and legal risk. An unexpected executive harassment claim, an unmanaged EEOC charge, or a misclassified worker class-action lawsuit can easily consume hundreds of thousands of dollars, completely eroding portco EBITDA and threatening exit valuations.
HR Surgeons LLC provides fractional, board-level Employee Relations Director support on a highly cost-efficient retainer. Instead of hiring a full-time, high-overhead VP of HR at every portco, operating partners leverage our centralized, surgical advisory loop to standardize compliance, progressive discipline, and supervisor feedback across their entire portfolio of investments.
Centralized Portfolio Protection Pillars
Surgical Policy Risk Audit
Comprehensive review of all employee handbooks, performance guidelines, arbitration clauses, and progressive discipline templates across portfolio companies to ensure absolute compliance with multi-state labor codes.
Manager Emergency SOS SLA
A direct advisory hotline offering sub-2-hour SLA responses for management when dealing with sensitive active progressive discipline, medical accommodation requests, high-risk separations, or suspected whistleblowing.
Sovereign Whistleblower Hotlines
Setup and maintenance of fully secure, third-party anonymous report lines that give portco employees a safe mechanism to flag compliance issues before they escalate to EEOC charges or external litigation.
Active Progressive Discipline Auditing
Weekly audits of ongoing performance improvement plans (PIPs) and warning documents to guarantee that critical evidence is objective, timelines are precise, and the company is fully insulated if a separation occurs.
Surgical Performance & Value Multiplication
EBITDA Retainer
Centralized Fractional ER VP advisory loop to protect valuations and minimize people-risk exposure.
*Requires 6-month minimum commitment. Scalable tier discounts for multi-portco deployments.
- Surgical compliance policy audits
- Sub-2-hour executive manager helpline SLA
- Monthly Human-Risk Dashboard reports
We operate as a trusted partner directly aligned with Operating Partners and General Counsel, ensuring absolute discretion, board-room class compliance, and direct, proactive risk containment.