Strategic & Financial Advisory
Defining financing and growth strategies, valuing assets and companies, structuring transactions. Decision support in environments with high stakes — political, economic, institutional.
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Four practice areas. One standard of rigour.
From strategic scoping through to execution, our team supports you across the entire financing and transaction lifecycle.
ADVISORY FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS
Strategic & Financial Advisory
The transactions we advise on commit public resources over decades, shape private wealth across generations, or reposition institutions on a continental scale. We bring rigorous analysis, hands-on expertise in complex financing, and genuine independence of judgement.
Decision support Strategic transactions In environments with high political, economic and institutional stakes.
Debt Restructuring
Analysis of financial liabilities, identification of available levers, and design of solutions that durably improve sustainability without sacrificing investment capacity. A disciplined approach to sensitive situations.
Infrastructure Financing
Structuring financing for large-scale projects — energy, transport, water, social infrastructure. A command of the contractual and financial structures that underpin a project's bankability and long-term viability.
FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS Anticipating every step. Regulatory, market, lenders, operational: every dimension is built into the structuring.
Financial engineering
Financing & Structuring
Structuring a financing means anticipating regulatory constraints, market fluctuations, lender requirements and the operational imperatives of the project. Every structure we design is built for the project, its stakeholders and the markets that will finance it with the rigour such complex transactions demand.
Structured Debt
Structuring financing solutions tailored to the client's cash flows and asset base: secured senior debt, subordinated instruments, asset-backed debt instruments. Optimising drawdown terms, security packages and protection mechanisms.
Project Finance
Structuring under project finance principles, with particular attention to bankability, cash-flow modelling, risk allocation and the coordination of often multi-jurisdictional lender pools.
Refinancing & Balance-Sheet Optimisation
Identifying and executing transactions that extend maturities, reduce the cost of debt, or free up investment capacity whether in anticipation of, or in response to, financial pressure.
M&A Africa
Mergers & Acquisitions
An M&A transaction in Africa involves dimensions beyond methodological rigour alone: shareholding structures, local regulatory contexts, and relationship dynamics that condition access to opportunities and the outcome of negotiations. We act on both sides of the deal, with precise knowledge of these environments.
On both sides of the deal Buy-Side and Sell-Side A precise understanding of Africa's regulatory and relational landscape.
Buy-Side Advisory
Identifying and qualifying acquisition opportunities, financial and operational analysis of targets, structuring offers, leading negotiations. Access to off-market opportunities, drawn from relationships built over time.
Sell-Side Advisory
Strategic preparation of the disposal, positioning of assets, management of the competitive process, coordination of due diligence. Our objective: maximise value within a rigorous, well-managed process.
Post-Acquisition
We support the integration phase — governance of the combined entity, synergy tracking, resolution of operational issues — so that anticipated value is actually delivered.
PRIVATE PLACEMENTS Connecting financing needs with capital markets. The right investors, the right investment case, at the right time, in the right format.
Capital markets
Capital Raising
Capital raising is as much about persuasion as it is about technical execution. Convincing the right investors, with the right investment case, at the right time and in the right format. We support the entire process — from building the financial narrative through to final negotiations — mobilising a network of institutional and regional investors active in African markets.
Equity & Quasi-Equity
Raising capital from institutional investors, family offices, private equity funds and strategic partners. Structuring mezzanine or convertible instruments where warranted by the client's situation.
Short- and Long-Term Debt
Structuring and placing financing with commercial banks, debt funds, development institutions and bond markets. Running competitive processes to optimise financing structure and terms.
Your project
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Our team is on hand to assess your needs and design the financial solution best suited to your objectives.