18 Equity's advisory offering is centred around the following aspects of corporate finance:
- Mergers and acquisitions (including private equity transactions)
- Deal structuring
- Financial structuring
- BEE transactions
- Capital raising
- Valuations
- Asset realisation and hedging
- Balance sheet optimisation and gearing
The typical transaction process can be described as follows:
- Understanding the nature of the transaction and the client's rationale for pursuing it
- Thorough analysis from a strategic, operational, financial and technical perspective (industry/technical experts used to the extent required)
- Defining the optimal deal structure from a financial, legal, tax and accounting perspective; including the definition of the optimal capital structure for the transaction. The cost and benefit associated with the proposed structure are clearly articulated as part of this phase
- Assisting the client with negotiation
- Capital raising: equity, mezzanine (inlcuding development finance institutions) and senior debt
- Transaction execution: legal, statutory and other aspects
- Post deal value add in order to ensure synergies are extracted