Finance Your
Business

Private Equity

This is a form of private equity that targets financing startup companies and small businesses with long-term growth potential. Similar to other private Equity funds, venture capital generally comes from investors, investment banks, and financial institutions. These funds may from time to time be packaged together with technical or managerial expertise.

Venture Capital

We have a portfolio of fund managers, both locally and internationally, that are looking for good investment opportunities. Private equity firms operate investment funds on behalf of institutional and accredited investors; ensure the best possible returns. We are able to assist in pproviding long term, expansion capital to underlying businesses as well as acquisition of the whole or a majority interest in a portfolio business in partnership with new incoming management or existing management

Structured Finance

This applies to companies with complicated financing needs that may require more sophisticated solutions tailor made for customers. These instances may call for more than 2 financing solutions and syndications. Our team of lead consultants has adequate experience to help structure such deals.

Project Finance

Project finance involves financing of specific projects with foreseeable completion date. Project finance involves long-term infrastructure and industrial projects where customers are expected to pay back the funding from the cash flow generated by the project.

For your business to attract financing, you must think about the following critical issues;

  1. What is the purpose of the funding required?
  2. How much is needed and how soon?
  3. How much in future revenues assured?
  4. For how many years can you show records of consistent sales revenues?
  5. How quickly could you repay a loan?
Process of Getting Funding
  1. Develop an Executive summary of your business and the investment you are looking for (amount, purpose, likely result); which will in turn allow us develop a suitable summary as a “Teaser / or Pitch.
  2. Submit the required documentation e.g. Business Plans, Audited financial statements, cashflows, Feasibility studies, Proposed collateral etc. A lead consultant will guide you through this process.
  3. Analysis of the proposal and the documents presented.
  4. Introduction to a suitable financier
  5. Term sheet stage outlining the most likely terms of the funding.
  6. Due Diligence checks including Intellectual property certifications, Trademarks and Copyright for items subject to investment, Resilience plans including security measures, off-site back-ups of critical information, and supply disruption, recovery plans etc
  7. Offer letter and securitization
  8. Disbursements
  9. Monitoring and repayments

This process may slightly vary depending on the interested financier which will include Banks, funds managers and other institutional lenders.