Strategic and financial advisor to SMEs
Method, strategy, decisions
Aetos Partners works with entrepreneurs and SMEs on their most complex strategic and financial decisions: growth, transformation, extraordinary transactions, the arrival of new shareholders. We turn an owner's goals into concrete development plans, and we stay inside the business until they are delivered.
Situations we know well
We start from where the business is today
Financial planning is not an end in itself but a tool for making better decisions. That is why we start from the situations SMEs face most often, grouped into three areas, each with a clear path of action.
Stability and balance
Financial structure and planning
Evolution
Transformation and growth
Decision
Support for complex decisions
Why now
SMEs are growing, credit is getting tighter
Italian SMEs incorporated as limited companies in 2025, 21% more than in 2019, with 5.6 million employees
family businesses that may face a generational handover in the next decade
bank lending to companies with fewer than 20 employees in one year, while lending to businesses overall is growing
Sources: Cerved, SME analysis presented in September 2026; AUB Observatory on family businesses, 17th report (companies with revenues above 20 million euros); CGIA research office, November 2024 – November 2025.
How we work
Inside the business, alongside its leaders
Every engagement starts with a plan agreed with the owner, with clear goals and timelines, and continues with a regular presence on site: decisions only matter once they turn into action.
Who we work with
Businesses, and those who invest in them
SMEs
Companies that are growing, transforming or reorganising, or facing a turning point: a new market, a major investment, a change of leadership.
Our services →Industrial groups
Holding companies and groups looking for strategic and financial support for their portfolio companies, with a single point of contact at every stage.
For holding companies →Funds and family offices
Investors looking for advisory specialised in SMEs: from buy-and-build strategies to fractional management inside portfolio companies.
For funds and family offices →
The group
Aetos Partners is part of the Net 4 Capital group, an industrial holding company that brings financial and managerial capital to Italian SMEs. It acts as investment manager for Net 4 Capital and supports it in due diligence, M&A and integration: the experience gained on the group's buy-and-build projects becomes expertise at the service of SMEs.