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Financial Advisory and Restructuring

Avante’s Financial Advisory team provides strategic advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, asset disposals, capital raising and restructuring, strategic partnerships and corporate valuations.  The advisory team composes a distinctive blend of corporate finance specialists, able to work with our clients at senior management level to develop customised financial solutions to meet their needs. Avante’s specialists provide objective and integrated advice based on years of experience and proven success.

Avante has strong relationships with a wide variety of funding sources and as such, has the competence to advise clients on capital structure decisions and the execution of various financing projects. In addition, Avante assists companies in managing the entire financing process, from the identification of optimal financing needs to successful completion of the necessary transactions, securing the best available terms in the process.

Our Financial Advisory services include:
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Led merger of Unipetrol and Agip US$117m
Advised Unipetrol and raised financing for its acquisition of a 60% stake in Agip’s downstream operations in Nigeria US$86m
 
Corporate Finance & Restructuring
Advised Oando Plc on combined public offer (469% over-subscription) and rights issue (167% over-subscription) US$130m
Structured and raised financing for acquisition and development of a 145 hectare residential development in Lagos, Nigeria US$55m
Structured consortium and raised financing for the purchase of a GSM licence for V-Mobile Wireless Nigeria US$285m
Advised Ocean & Oil Services and raised financing for its purchase of a core stake in Unipetrol US$16m
 
Valuation Advisory

Avante provides Fairness Opinions on business valuations in various financing transactions

 
Structured Financing Alternatives
  • Project Finance
  • Capital Raising
 
General Financial Advisory
Led the first dual listing of an indigenous company through Oando Plc’s secondary listing on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (“JSE”), and the first African inward dual listing on the JSE