Services Offering

Each of our clients is very different. We are dedicated to understanding the individual needs of each client and to providing innovative solutions. Our services encompass the following:

Private equity
Corporate strategy
Turnaround involvement and/or support
Negotiation support
Fund raising and listing advice
Project advisory
Empowerment solutions and support
Business entity acquisition and disposal and related advice

Private Equity

We look to invest in businesses relevant to us, that we understand and can add value to. We use our own resources as well as those of our partners, including Banks, other Private Equity Players and Business angel investors.

Corporate Strategy

We have extensive experience in helping clients to formulate an effective business strategy from core competence to strategic intent to driving force and marketing strategy. We also help to communicate and inculcate same strategy into the business.

Turnaround Support

We have been involved in a number of turnaround situations and provided the appropriate decision support for closure or further investment, rationalization or acquisition or sale. We have acted as executive for various business entities until these entities are able to manage on their own again and hired and mandated key staff.

Negotiation Support

We have advised numerous entrepreneurs/businesses working their way through complex and important negotiations and decisions.

Fund Raising and Listing Support

We have helped numerous businesses to justify and obtain internal or external funding. With each specialised finance transaction, we aim to:

Create balance sheet capacity and leverage
Optimise cash flow
Improve working capital efficiency
Enhance conventional borrowings
Optimise available tax benefits
Minimise after-tax costs of borrowing

Our extensive expertise allows us to understand the complex accounting, regulatory, tax and other relevant issues our clients face. Areas of experience include:

Acquisition finance
Mezzanine and subordinated finance
Syndicated debt facilities
Tax-efficient financing
Empowerment funding
Financial engineering
Property Finance and structuring
The pros and cons of listing and primary market capital raising.

Project Advisory

We offer the full range of independent financial advice to project sponsors, bidding consortia and institutions including:

Feasibility studies
Risk analysis
Design and pricing of capital structures
Bid strategy
Financial modelling
Project documentation and legal due diligence
Management of the debt and equity arranging process
Project equity valuation

Empowerment Solutions and Support

Empowerment at shareholder level has become a critical component of the shareholder and funding mix. Making use of our extensive contacts and relationships, we have helped arrange funding for and sourced and introduced the most appropriate BEE partners for businesses, specific transactions and/or business units.
Business entity acquisition and disposal and related advice
We have performed or supported the rationale, pricing and documentation and legal requirements for the acquisition and disposal of various businesses and/or business assets. This includes the formalisation of partnerships and joint ventures.

Key Success Factors

We realise that the financial challenges and opportunities facing clients are unique and treat them as such.
While we see ourselves as good generalists, we do not attempt to be all things to all people. We partner extensively with legal, accounting, tax and transaction support specialists. Essentially, by building a sound understanding of and relationship with our clients, we are able to translate their needs into action. This way we don't let our clients "miss the wood for the trees".
We participate in transactions where the client and ourselves feel this is appropriate and we can provide maximum benefit.
The successful executions of transactions. We pride ourselves on our quick, flexible responses to a client's individual needs. The corollary of this is that we are prepared to undertake contingency based fee assignments.
Product innovation is an essential ingredient and our ability to draw on skills and resources from many sources enhances our creative approach and ability to custom design options for our clients.