Struggling to raise patient capital? Looking at maximising the sale value of your business? Look no more: Avanguard Capital deploys all its search and advisory expertise to deliver superior outcomes for you. We’re here to help you achieve what can often be the most single important objective of your entrepreneurial journey and/or corporate career.
Capital raising demystified – Where Avanguard Capital fits in:
Brokers and lenders can respectively provide short-term, “impatient” capital, and debt. When it comes to securing long-term, “patient” capital, Australian options are scarce. This is where Avanguard Capital steps in. We indeed act as a two-way bridge between Australia and the global capital stage, specialising in connecting companies looking at raising patient capital with a pool of international investors and strategic partners, mostly based in Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
Securing capital is often both our clients’ single biggest bottleneck and their greatest value creation milestone. Indeed, raising funds not only affords them the resources required to grow and reach their value-creating milestones, but also validates their valuation. Besides capital, the right investors will also often contribute several important non-monetary benefits such as valuable advice, and ecosystem-relevant networks, connecting them to both clients and partners. Finally, a capital raising exercise often doubles as a crucial litmus test as it induces a strengthening, a “de-risking” of our clients’ businesses.
Yet even though the above makes sense, companies often fail to do for capital raising what they would normally do for other critical objectives: dedicate resources.
This is where Avanguard Capital’s expertise comes in. Patrick Kedemos, Avanguard Capital’s Managing Director explains: “We provide the resources required in both quality – by making our clients more investable through our tried-and-tested proprietary advisory and de-risking methodology – and in quantity by enabling them to delegate/outsource the all-important investor search phase. Indeed, this is where there is a need to demystify the essence of fund hunting: success requires the dedication of significant, qualified “door-knocking” human resources. Our highly trained team of fund hunters will actively search for the relevant potential investors and partners, in Australia, Europe and globally. By delegating their search phase to Avanguard Capital, our clients’ time and attention can better be focused on interacting with the potential investors and partners we introduce them to – and to actively engaging with them, with our support, through the all-important due diligence phase that leads to the conclusion of a successful capital raising campaign.”
The same advisory and search approach applies to Avanguard Capital’s clients aiming at selling their business at the maximum price, simply because whereas raising capital is about selling a portion of the business, divesting it is simply selling its entirety – with a much stronger focus in this instance on potential Australian and Southeast-Asian buyers.
Corporate advisory to maximise our clients’ capital outcomes – Avanguard Capital’s methodology:
In addition to the abovementioned search phase, Avanguard Capital’s proprietary advisory and de-risking methodology is aimed at accompanying our clients and maximising outcomes at every stage of their capital raising and/or sale process:
- Helping our clients become more investable (or more presentable for a sale at the best price) via the deployment of our proprietary advisory and de-risking methodology.
- Implementing our investor and partner search methodology – with a focus on patient capital.
- Accompanying and coaching our clients throughout their interactions with potential investors/buyers.
- Advising them through the due diligence phase to deliver successful capital raising or sale outcomes.
More specifically, Avanguard Capital’s approach entails:
- Enabling our clients to become more investable by the deployment of our proprietary methodology that identifies any gaps in relation to potential investors’ expectations.
- Addressing proactively any such gaps by working closely with our clients, effectively becoming their embedded capital raising team.
- Helping our clients generate the documentation and resources required, such as “teasers”, information memoranda, and virtual data rooms.
- Gaining access to a highly effective search methodology, identifying the potential investors, partners, and buyers most likely to be interested, be them in Australia or overseas.
- Focusing, throughout the search phase on identifying the potential sources of patient capital, from both financial investors, and strategic partners.
- Accompanying our clients by advising and coaching them throughout the process of interacting with potential investors, partners, and buyers, including the all-important due diligence phase.
- Tailoring specific workshops to help them maximise success in their capital raising and divestiture campaigns.
Patrick Kedemos concludes: “Avanguard Capital dedicates substantial, quality resources, and deploys effective methodologies to accompany our clients in both their capital raising and their divestiture campaigns. Avanguard Capital’s mandates align our incentives with the interests of our clients, ensuring that we are fully invested alongside them to deliver superior outcomes for them.”
For additional information, please view our MD’s interview, Patrick Kedemos, on www.avanguardcapital.com
To contact us: Patrick.kedemos@avanguardcapital.com
