IGAP is an advisory services firm with an aim to provide our clients the best-in-class financial advice on matters ranging from debt/equity capitalization, wealth management, business development, restructuring, investments, mergers/ acquisitions and divestments.
Our Strategic Advisory team is dedicated in offering solutions and innovative investment opportunities across the Globe to founders, founder-led companies, asset managers, investment funds, institutions and foundations. With global network and presence in key locations worun the world, we are able to support our global client base and help them navigate a wide range of projects and transactions.
OUR APPROACH
- We recognize that the capital structure is just one part of the strategic ambitions of a business.
- Therefore, we seek to deliver and execute our advice in the context of the company’s overall objectives to ensure goal congruence with all stakeholders.
- We work closely with a business, management team and lenders to prepare for a debt raising process.
- This ensures we deliver a robust proposition to lenders which is supported by appropriate financial assumptions.
- Preparing for due diligence also allows the business to anticipate and tackle any areas for improvement in its proposition.
- By drawing on the team’s collective knowledge and experience, we are suitably placed to work with a company at each stage of the debt raising process.
OUR FOCUS
We focus on providing the following services:
- Working with management to determine the company’s ideal and feasible capital structure.
- Advising the company regarding existing loan renegotiation and structuring options.
- Identifying a universe of the right potential lenders that have a current appetite for loans within the Company’s profile and proposed capital structure.
- Leveraging our relationships with, and knowledge of, lenders (bank and non-bank) across the Middle East to maximize options and ultimately optimize loan structure pricing, terms and flexibility.
- Creating thorough and “lender-friendly” information packages that properly communicate the company’s story, lay out detailed cash flow/ financial models, collateral analyses, liquidation analyses and multiple performance cases/scenarios
- Leading the financing process, including managing the deal timeline, data room/due diligence process, information communication, management meetings and securing competitive bids.
- Advising management in review of loan proposals to optimize structure, terms, pricing, fit and flexibility, including facility size, collaterals, bank fees and pricing, reporting requirements, representations & warranties and indemnifications.
- Financial modeling of loan proposal to “stress-test” proposed covenants and ultimately set reasonable deal covenants and terms.
- Advising management and company counsel in review and negotiation of definitive loan documentation.
- Performing other tasks as needed to facilitate closing.