This direct experience also helps our awareness of future trends that will impact our clients operating in more mature markets.
We have a strong awareness of the increasing importance of sustainability to ventures. This will be a growing trend in the 2020s for our clients and providers of capital.
We are always delighted to have an initial discussion to understand more about your organisation.
Our international work includes:
- Attracting overseas investment;
- Access to UK capital markets;
- Large scale development planning;
- Financial modelling and analysis;
- Preparing business plans and investment memorandums; and
- Assisting Ultra High Networth families establish in Bermuda.
Foreign Direct Investment Into Africa
FDI has a critical role to play in the economic development of Africa. To date, FDI within Africa is noticeable by its limited success and the significant funding gap that exists. We consider that FDI remains an outstanding opportunity for both the people of Africa and investors into Africa.
Our approach is to produce viable and robust project business plans that are led by local people and local factors. In addition to appropriate financial returns, we consider the following to be important:
- Ensuring that investors are focused on gaining access to domestic markets in Africa rather than Africa only being a means of lowering their costs of production;
- A consistently supportive approach by African states that will ultimately reduce the cost of capital and develop linkage, JVs and partnerships between Africa and overseas investors;
- Sustainability - including building skills at a local level as part of any development; and
- Supporting livelihoods by targeting the informal sector in Africa, as well as the need for healthcare, education, housing and environmental standards.
We believe that our approach will unlock projects, and further address the current funding gap.
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is now recognised as important to all stakeholders, including providers of capital.
At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set-out by the United Nations, which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership.
These goals recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
We seek to understand how projects will apply these goals, given their importance ultimately to the long-term viability of investments.
