We specialise in assisting African businesses with at least a 3-year history of profitability to raise the equity and/or debt they need to expand their operations from international sources, particularly family offices and private equity funds based in the UK that collectively have billions of pounds earmarked for investing in African businesses and projects.
While we have specialist expertise in the financial and energy industries, we’ll engage with any business or project that ‘fits’ with our purpose and values and where we believe we can deliver the capital you require within a reasonable time-frame on terms that are acceptable to you. This includes projects that aim to socially uplift communities in Africa and would qualify for development finance by offering an acceptable commercial return to financiers. Our role as your corporate finance advisor is to:
- Structure your investment opportunity and/or loan requirement appropriately to maximise the probability of raising the capital required
- Develop information about the investment opportunity and/or loan requirement that can be sent to potential investors and/or financiers
- Approach targeted private equity funds, family offices and other potential investors in the UK and elsewhere on your behalf
- Send or deliver information to targeted investors and/or financiers
- Persuade them to invest in or lend money to your business
- Manage the transaction all the way through to its conclusion - the signing of an agreement between you and the investor/financier and the transfer of funds to you
As a key part of our service, we’ll work with you to develop an Information Pack. This is perhaps the most important part of the process. These documents will include a one-page summary, a financial model, a visual presentation and a detailed Investment Memorandum, but may include the development and implementation of an online ‘sales funnel’ and associated marketing strategy to find potential investors and present your opportunity to them online in a ‘webinar’.
Your company will own the intellectual property and copyright on all this information, meaning that you can use and modify all of it as you see fit after the expiry of our initial mandate if you choose not to renew it.
Essentially, we offer a professional, outsourced business development and capital raising function for your business that project manages your capital raise from inception to delivery of the funds on the right terms at the right price within an agreed timeline and budget. (Oh, and we’ll also plan and price your first-round capital raise with the second and third funding rounds in mind so you have equity ‘in the tank’ to fund potential future expansion.).