About

Operators first. Advisors second.

We have built, scaled, and exited the businesses we now help you develop.

The Firm

An advisory firm built to execute, not just advise.

The firms charging the most on cross-border mandates had often never built a business, sat in a real negotiation, or lived with the consequences of their own structuring advice. Founders were being sold playbooks by people who had never used one.

Jeremy Gaillard came from quantitative research, commodities intermediation, and capital raising across Paris, Monaco, and Dubai. Jayson Milkias came from commercial strategy, sourcing, and negotiation across China, India, and MENA. They met in a privately managed hedge fund and found they had the same complaint about the advisers around them.

M&G Signature is the answer to that gap. The people on the brief are the people who have built and run operating businesses themselves, and who stay in the room through execution rather than stopping at diagnosis. Two partners, a team of analysts across London and Paris, and a deliberately small book of mandates.

The Partners

Two principals. Every mandate.

Jayson Milkias

Jayson Milkias

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Jayson brings five years of operational experience across SaaS, manufacturing, and professional services. After meeting Jeremy in the closed fund, he took the role of Commercial Director, leading commercial strategy, prospection, and sales-funnel management.

He is among the youngest people to be made a Freeman of the City of London and has built an extensive network across China, India, and Africa. He has held board positions across six companies and excels at developing commercial expansion strategies, sourcing and negotiating with suppliers, and leading restructurings.

  • · 5 years across SaaS, manufacturing, and professional services
  • · Board positions across 6 companies
  • · Among the youngest people to be made a Freeman of the City of London
  • · Networks across China, India, Africa, and the Middle East
LinkedIn jayson@mgsignature.co.uk
Jeremy Gaillard

Jeremy Gaillard

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Jeremy began his career as a quantitative researcher for an international investment bank in Paris. He then ran a closed hedge fund providing commodities trading solutions for tailored investors, and later worked as a wealth manager specialising in investment and tax structuring.

He moved into international import/export markets, specifically sugar and oil, conducting deals as a direct intermediary for major sellers, and expanded into capital raising and corporate restructuring as an apporteur d'affaires, with an extensive network in Dubai, Monaco, and Paris.

  • · 7 years across technology, international trade, and financial services
  • · Board positions across 17+ companies
  • · Institute of Directors
  • · Networks across Monaco, Paris, Dubai, and the US
LinkedIn jeremy@mgsignature.co.uk

The Network as an Asset

The thing you are actually engaging.

Cross-border deals turn on relationships built over years, not introductions arranged in a week. Our network is the asset clients retain us for: real operators, capital sources, distribution channels, and counterparties across the corridors that matter.

United Kingdom

City of London, advisory and capital relationships.

France

Paris commercial and capital-raising network.

Switzerland

Banking, wealth, and holding-structure partners.

Monaco

Family-office and financial-services access.

UAE

Dubai and Abu Dhabi - banking, capital, and trade.

China

Sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution channels.

MENA & Africa

Government-grade distribution and partnership access.

India & Southeast Asia

Manufacturing and commercial partnerships.

How We Work With Clients

Principal-level, hands-on, deliberately selective.

We take on a small number of mandates at any one time. That is a choice, not a constraint. It is how we keep both partners in the room on every brief, and how we stay in execution rather than slipping into oversight.

You speak to a principal from the first call, through the mandate, and after it closes. There is no associate layer because there does not need to be: the person you hire is the person doing the work.

Work with the partners directly.

Confidential, no obligation. You speak to a principal, not a salesperson.

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