Corporate Finance
Capital formation, transaction structuring and funder engagement, carried from concept through to execution.
Advisory
Catalyst provides corporate finance, transaction structuring and execution support to selected South African businesses, investors and counterparties.
The group is typically engaged where a transaction involves multiple stakeholders, funding sources or legal arrangements, and where transaction design is as important as the headline outcome.
Catalyst remains actively involved throughout the transaction, coordinating stakeholders, managing commercial workstreams and overseeing execution through to completion.
Advisory capabilities
Mergers and Acquisitions
Support for acquisition, disposal, succession, investment and strategic partnership processes.
Strategic Structuring
Integration of legal, financial, tax and business considerations where the structure shapes the outcome.
Execution Support
Managing advisers, funders, business owners, investors and selected providers, moving a transaction from concept to implementation.
Advice, structure and execution
Catalyst’s advisory role sits in situations where analysis or advice on its own is not enough. Someone also needs to shape the transaction, coordinate the relevant parties and maintain momentum through to implementation.
The focus is not simply on producing advice, but on converting the agreed objective into an executable transaction.
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Strategic Clarity
Defining what the transaction needs to achieve, for whom and within which practical constraints.
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Transaction Architecture
Designing the ownership, funding, security, tax and legal structure around that objective.
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Disciplined Execution
Managing the parties, documentation, approvals and funding requirements through to completion.
Areas of expertise
Acquisitions, disposals and succession processes.
Financial modelling and transaction assessment.
Integrated legal, tax, financial and operational workstreams.
Structuring involving multiple funders or capital providers.
Shareholder and strategic-partner transactions.
Capital raising and refinancing.