Corporate Finance

If you are looking to equities or list, acquire or merge, divest or dispose or raise capital, our experienced Corporate Finance Team can assist you with our wide range of advisory services.

Lead Advisory

Careful planning and co-ordination are needed to achieve success in any business transaction. With strategic advice, we help you expand your business by:

• broadening the ownership base;
• raising capital; and
• developing strategic alliances.

We assist you in developing effective plans and strategies with options such as mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, turnaround, divestiture, disposal or asset management.

Transaction Support

Inevitably, most growing businesses need to consider local or cross-border transactions such as setting up a branch outside their home market or acquiring an overseas company. Our objective is to enable owners & managers to make investments with confidence by supporting and advising them at every stage.

We reduce the risk and stress of investing locally or overseas and ensure the transaction is “right” for your business.  We perform extensive due diligence that provides you with a report that comprehensively analyses the target business in the following areas:

• historical financial performance;
• management capabilities;
• sustainability of market positions;
• market & competitor analyses; and
• financial projections, including cash flows.

Business Valuation

Our Corporate Finance professionals possess extensive experience in business valuation, which can be performed independently or as part of your process of equitisation and listing. We act as a registered business appraiser and an independent expert.

We use in-depth research into the economy, the industry, “guideline” companies, and your company and utilize up-to-date, standard techniques to provide you with accurate, impartial valuations of your business and assets. We ensure the valuations are in accordance with all the local regulations.

Equitisation Consulting

When you are looking to equitise or privatise, we provide assistance by:

• preparing diagnostic reviews and equitisation action plans of international standard;
• providing accurate and impartial valuation opinions;
• recommending appropriate business models;
• producing sound forecasts and structures;
• finding suitable partners for acquisitions;
• giving valuable advice in corporate and financial matters.
• Advice on appropriate structures.

Listing Preparation

When you prepare to list on the stock exchange, either locally or overseas, we help you by:

• preparing a prospectus that will attract the attention of serious investors and in accordance with market requirements;
• developing a listing action plan; and
• performing a valuation of your company.

Project Finance

We assist you in developing a well-planned and structured approach to achieve your financing objectives for a business or investment project by:

• raising debt and equity from both from domestic and international markets;
• advising, and preparing an Information Memorandum and assistance in negotiation and managing the deal to successful completion.

In addition, we use the close relationships that we maintain with investors to achieve the right chemistry for you on an ongoing basis.