03Approach
Our edge is velocity. Five principles decide how we take on a mandate, how we structure it, and when we consider it done.
03.1Five principles
Principle 01
Understand the problem before deciding what capital belongs in it.
We sit with promoters, founders and management to find the real need before we talk about capital. A business that needs time is not helped by money that wants a quick exit. A balance sheet that needs repair is not helped by more leverage. The instrument comes last.
Principle 02
Complicated transactions need simple, executable solutions.
Special situations attract complexity: layered debt, hybrid instruments, competing consents. Our job is to reduce it to a structure every party can read, price and sign, and one that still works after the deal has closed.
Principle 03
Advice only matters if it survives contact with the transaction.
We structure before we market, and we approach only investors who fit. A presentation that impresses and a transaction that closes are different things. We are measured by the second.
Principle 04
Stakeholders, incentives and capital structures must work together.
Promoters, management and investors work through the problem together, from the first conversation. A structure that suits one party and strains another rarely reaches signing, and seldom survives it.
Principle 05
The mandate is not complete when the presentation is finished.
The mandate is complete when the transaction closes.
Documentation, conditions precedent and drawdown are part of the job. We take on mandates we believe will close, and we say so early when we do not.
03.2In practice
We sit with promoters, founders and management to find the real need before we talk about capital.
Each structure fits your cash flows, control and timeline. Nothing is off the shelf.
Diligence, documents and investor outreach move together, and we approach only investors who fit.
A conventional process: in sequence
How we run a mandate: in parallel
03.3How a mandate is staffed
Promoters, management and investors work through the problem together, from the first conversation.
The team that scopes your mandate stays on it through to closing.
