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As an independent adviser on private equity deals, Katherine Feeney has figured out how to liaise with clients from almost anywhere in the world. She has made presentations from locations that include a mountain hut in Canada and a surf camp in Indonesia.

Feeney started her one-woman consultancy — which helps private equity funds do the due diligence on their investments — two years ago after leaving professional services firm Bain & Co. With a laptop and two portable monitors, she reckons she can work from anywhere that has WiFi.

This has been made possible, Feeney says, by advances in technology as well as by “the way the pandemic made remote work in professional services much more accepted”.

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