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Boilerplate

DryDock Partners is a London restructuring firm for independent agencies, founded in 2026 by Rudiger Wanck, Gerard Ghazarian and Youri van der Mijn. The firm delivers financial, operational and ownership restructuring in a single six-month programme — "Refit and Launch" — run by its three partners with no junior staff, and is backed by financial partners to fund the solutions it designs. Through the Indie Media Fund, a closed funding programme, it arranges growth funding, publisher early-payment programmes and debt restructuring for independent agencies.

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Facts journalists can use

• Three partners, no juniors. The partners do the work themselves.
• One programme: six months, three pillars — financial, operational, ownership — in parallel.
• A flat monthly fee, invoiced in advance. No day-rates. The model is published; the number sits in the proposal.
• A firm-wide cap on concurrent engagements.
• The Indie Media Fund: a closed, invitation-only funding programme for independent agencies.

The partners are quotable on

• Restructuring founder-led and family-owned companies without selling them.
• Operational value creation in private-equity portfolios.
• AI and the end of the pyramid model in professional services and agencies.
• Independent agencies: funding, consolidation and the holding-company retreat.

Assets

• Logo: ink on light · paper on dark (PNG, 4000 px). Never recolour, redraw or place on busy imagery.
• Partner portraits: photography session in progress — available on request.
• Imagery on this site is concept imagery, illustrative, generated to our brief. Please do not reuse it as photography.

Contact

partners@drydock.partners. There is no press office; a partner replies.