We help you to answer the following critical questions when launching a new venture or simply just expanding into new lines of business:

• What is the size of the market opportunity?
• How is the market currently being serviced and what are the service levels like?
• How is the market segmented?
• Who are your competitors in the market likely to be?
• What are the relevant price points of comparable products or services?
• Will your business model, product/service, expertise and competitive advantage translate in the given market?
• How are the existing market players likely to react, and does his pose a risk to your strategy? (e.g. price war etc.)

Based on the information gleaned from the initial market intelligence, we refine this further in the feasibility analysis. This helps you gain a detailed understanding of the market opportunity for your proposed business operations or product line. The process contextualizes the market intelligence using more in-depth market information combined with relevant financial data and scenario modeling. The analysis also considers critical aspects of your competitive advantage and how this will shield you from the competition, enable you to sustain a price or cost advantage and build barriers to entry for others. If the initial data indicates that market entry is feasible, then this lays the groundwork for the development of your strategic market entry plan. We view this as the minimum data you need to make an educated assessment before investing significant funds in any new project or venture.

We pride ourselves on establishing enduring relationships with our clients, this gives us a deep understanding of their businesses. Our breadth of industry experience across numerous markets positions us well to provide advice on growth and expansion strategies. We are able to review projects and do full NPV and IRR based evaluations to help select between various strategic paths. This all helps our clients to identify the strategy best suited to their individual needs.   

Our team has a wealth of experience managing a wide variety of M&A transactions. We can assist with everything from identifying and vetting acquisition targets, to comprehensively preparing a business for the sale process. Experience has taught us that almost every business benefits from systematic planning and sale preparation. By grooming a business properly before the selling process starts, the price achieved inevitably reflects the perceived lower risk profile and higher commercial potential of the business.

We have extensive international experience with Management Buyouts, Management Buy Ins, Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions as well as Turnarounds and realization of Distressed Assets.        

Through our extensive international and local networks, we can identify businesses with strategic synergies and a good commercial fit. We are able to assist with confidential approaches to such companies to assess their levels of interest in any particular project or venture. Our clients value our commercial integrity and our ability to work in the strictest confidence. This enables us to help you 'qualify' the opportunity before any formal disclosures or representations are made. 

We help you to use the correct corporate structures that are most appropriate for risk management and tax efficiency. Whether you are acquiring a business, setting up new operations or expanding overseas, employing the correct corporate structuring from the outset can be absolutely critical. 

We are well versed in the theory and practice of business valuations. Whether you are acquiring or selling a business, we will help you to determine the most appropriate valuation methodology. We have particular experience in the valuation of early stage businesses. In addition, the valuation of intellectual property assets is a field we can assist you with. 

We can assist you with developing a strategy that will help secure the protection of your intellectual property rights locally and internationally. We are well experienced in working with some of the leading law firms to ensure coherent integration of intellectual property protection with the commercial realities of building enterprise value. 

We have deep roots in venture capital and international investment banking experience. Our network positions us well to assist with most of your capital raising needs. Critically, we help you to make sure your business is investment ready before you approach any prospective investors about raising capital. This will help you to avoid  missing valuable opportunities with investors, simply because you are inexperienced at raising capital.  How and what you present to prospective investors is key to the success of capital raisings. Ensuring you understand what professional investors expect and how they go about assessing opportunities, will help you to create a favorable initial impression. The importance of creating a good initial impression is not to be underestimated. 

We can help you to structure transactions to ensure that key role players in the success of your business remain motivated. Ensuring that these key members of your team participate equitably in the growth of the business can be a major determinant of business performance. 

We have advisers that will help you to navigate the regulatory and legal complexities of a multitude of markets. Please ask for our experience in any given market. 

We offer access to expert marketers with a wide range of industry experience. This can take the form of marketing workshops to brainstorm the appropriate strategy for the given product and market, all the way through to a turnkey service to develop a complete marketing plan. 

We have an excellent track record with accessing various government grants in a variety of markets. Please ask us for our experience in any given market.