What we do
Deal advisory services
The business landscape is constantly evolving, demanding bold moves and strategic decisions to stay ahead. Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other transformative transactions unlock unparalleled opportunities for growth, innovation, and market expansion. However, navigating these complexities requires an expert guide – a partner who understands the intricate financial and operational landscapes.
We have extensive experience across diverse industries and adopt a tailor-made approach, meticulously aligned with our client’s unique business goals and aspirations.
Our comprehensive suite of deal advisory services encompasses every crucial stage of the transaction lifecycle, ensuring informed decision-making and maximizing value creation. Our services comprise:
- Financial due diligence
- Valuations
- Feasibility/market entry studies
- M&A
- Strategy development
- Capital raising
Our collaborative and client-centric approach, coupled with a global network of expertise, positions us as the partner of choice for businesses looking to shape their future through strategic M&A transactions.
Turnaround services
A failed fundraising, loss of a major contract, bad debtors, or the inability to pay back a loan can all too easily result in insolvency. However, seeking turnaround advice early and acting quickly is the key to stabilizing operations and a return to profitable and cash generative trading.
We bring locally based professionals with unique capabilities, substantial global expertise and relationships, who will work alongside existing management and external stakeholders, assisting them to turnaround performance of stressed and distressed corporates.
Our approach involves:
- Evaluating financial restructuring options
- Formulating financial restructuring plans
- Negotiate terms with banks and other stakeholders
- Renegotiating with suppliers
- Implementing turnaround strategies
At the heart of any turnaround plan is to stabilize the business, help lenders to minimize provisions and maximize returns to other stakeholders.
Our focus is firmly on saving the business, and we work directly with corporate clients and advise lenders, often before, or just after a default has occurred.
Working alongside our clients, our primary goal is to help prevent insolvency occurring in the first place, maximize value and bring about a return to growth, ensuing the future success of the business. We do however also assist companies ‘restructure’ within the Bankruptcy Code.
Our team of specialists
The team is highly experienced and has been instrumental in a number of turnarounds including high profile cross-border cases. Between them, they have led some of the most significant turnaround and deal advisory assignments in the UK, Switzerland, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and East Africa.
In addition, our locally based team have led on a number of M&A engagements, due diligence assignments, valuations, strategy development, market studies and business reviews for a diverse portfolio of clients. Our Managing Director and Head of Deal Advisory and Turnaround, Nigel Smith, won the prestigious Private Equity (Africa) M&A award 2021.
