A strategic advisory practice for public companies, family offices, and the principals of significant private enterprises operating where outcome turns on relationship.
Globally Connected.
Locally Sovereign.
The hardest commercial outcomes seldom turn on a single discipline. A regulatory pathway depends on the operator's capital story. A capital story depends on the cultural narrative around the asset. The narrative depends on which institutions vouch for it. We work in all three at once.
Federal, state, and local engagement built on long-cultivated relationships rather than transactional outreach. Regulatory strategy, stakeholder coordination, agency mapping, and the political economics of getting an outcome on the calendar.
Commercial development for operating companies and capital allocators. Counterparty diligence, structuring of strategic relationships, deal architecture, and disciplined execution against a multi-year thesis rather than a quarter.
Institutional and reputational capital. Where a project lives in the mind of the public, the press, the regulator, and the capital community. The narrative architecture that determines whether the underlying work is allowed to compound.
The practice runs deep with a limited number of principals at any time. The current portfolio reflects two operating commitments and an active advisory relationship with a long-tenured industrial group.
XTI Aerospace is a publicly traded U.S. aerospace company developing the TriFan 600, a six-seat fixed-wing xVTOL aircraft, alongside an unmanned aircraft systems platform addressing the domestic supply gap created by federal restrictions on foreign-origin drone hardware. The advisory engagement leads stakeholder coordination at the federal, state, and local levels in support of certification, the company's relocation to Fort Worth, and government market development.
A long-established industrial group with annual turnover in excess of half a billion dollars, operating quietly across several decades in the global power and infrastructure markets. The advisory mandate covers U.S. commercial development, government engagement, and the structuring of strategic counterparty relationships in support of a meaningful expansion of the group's North American activity. The principal is named privately to qualified counterparties.
A boutique advisory practice serving family offices, public-company management teams, and growth-stage operators where the outcome turns on relationship capital and the disciplined integration of policy, deal, and narrative. Engagements are accepted on a selective basis where the work meets the practice's standard for materiality, integrity, and fit.
Every engagement looks different. The categories below describe the typical shape of the work and the seams where the practice does its best thinking.
Federal, state, and local engagement programs. Building the agency map, sequencing the conversations, and shepherding the policy or permitting outcome the company actually needs. Particular depth in aerospace, energy, agriculture, and capital formation.
Independent diligence on operators, sponsors, and prospective partners. Curated introductions into networks that close themselves to outsiders, including European family enterprises, American family offices, and disciplined institutional capital.
Working alongside management teams and ownership to translate a thesis into a working pipeline. Term sheet architecture, counterparty negotiation, the building of the commission and incentive structure, and the discipline to walk away from the wrong deal.
Trusted-advisor work for principals of consequence. Strategic positioning, governance and structure, succession thinking, and the political and reputational layer that increasingly determines what an asset is worth.
Specific competence working between the United States and Central Europe. CFIUS-aware deal architecture, public-company-grade compliance, and the patience for transactions that span two legal cultures and several regulators.
Senior advisor work supporting management teams on government affairs strategy, regulatory pathway development, capital markets communications, and the cross-functional discipline required when a single regulatory outcome moves the equity.
Retained advisory for principals where capital, family, and legacy are inseparable. Strategic diligence on direct investments, governance and structure, government and policy intelligence, and the introduction work that does not happen on a banker's roadshow.
Mid-market and growth-stage operators with consequence in their sector. Commercial development, counterparty introductions, government engagement, and the senior counsel that founders and second-generation principals seek when the company has outgrown a banker but not yet a board.
"Locally sovereign. Globally connected. Built to last across generations."
Jacob Uhlenkott is a fifth-generation Idahoan, with deep family roots in agriculture and manufacturing. His professional life has carried him from a presidential campaign on which he served as National Field Director, through public affairs partnership at Reagan & Sharp, into international advisory work spanning Central Europe, Central Asia, and the American West.
His practice has been shaped by long association with the institutions of Old Europe: the Habsburg family network, the Imperial Order of Franz Josef where he holds the rank of Chevalier, and a circle of family enterprises and ecclesiastical bodies whose decisions are made on a horizon of decades rather than quarters. That sensibility, that capital is a stewardship and a relationship is a covenant, sits underneath every engagement.
He is a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville (Political Science, 2011), a Catholic by conviction, a husband to Ashley Crouch, and a steward of Uhlenburg, the family estate above Hell's Canyon. He divides his time between Puerto Rico and the American West.
If you are a principal of a public company, a family office, or a significant private enterprise, and you believe there is a fit, the practice welcomes the introduction. References available on request, given in person.
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