What we offer
01
M&A advisory
We take a written mandate from one side of a transaction and work it until a deal closes or the client decides to stop. That covers building the candidate list, opening conversations in confidence, managing the exchange of information and supporting negotiation. Fees are agreed at mandate and are not contingent on pushing a deal a client should walk away from.
02
Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
Not every move into a new market is an acquisition. A group may prefer a joint venture with a local operator, a distribution agreement with a platform, or a minority stake with a path to control. We help decide which structure fits and then negotiate it.
03
Structured investments
Where a founder wants to keep running the business, a share swap, convertible instrument or staged buy-in can work better than a clean sale. We help the buyer design the instrument, agree the milestones and keep the founder's incentives pointed the same way as the buyer's.
Process
How a mandate runs
Seven steps. Some take a week, some take months. None is skipped.
- 01
Mandate
A written brief: what the buyer wants to own, the size range, what it will not do, and how decisions get made on the buyer's side.
- 02
Target identification
A long list built from public records, listing data and our own research, cut down to a short list the buyer agrees with.
- 03
Confidential approach
We contact the principal directly, without naming the buyer, to find out whether a conversation is welcome.
- 04
NDA
A mutual non-disclosure agreement before anything sensitive changes hands. The buyer's identity is disclosed at this point, not before.
- 05
Information exchange
Financials, agent and listing data, contracts and licences move in a structured way, with questions tracked so nobody answers the same thing twice.
- 06
Structuring
Price, instrument, earn-out, governance and the regulatory checks a foreign buyer has to clear in the market concerned, which differ in each of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. Lawyers and accountants are engaged by the buyer; we coordinate.
- 07
Close
Signing, conditions, completion, and the first hundred days, during which most of the value is either kept or lost.