Financial Advisory & Engineering
From idea to closing.
From idea to closing.
A project only becomes bankable on the day its financial structure withstands the scrutiny of those who must finance it.
AXIS FINANCE's Advisory division steps in at exactly that point: where industrial ambition meets financial rigour. We design financing structures, negotiate with lenders and investors, and see transactions through to execution.
Our team works on complex, legally and technically intensive transactions, in environments where the quality of the structuring alone determines the outcome.
Core sectors — infrastructure and energy, mining and logistics, agribusiness and food security, real estate and construction, financial services, industry and local processing.
- Financial engineering and structuringDebt/equity structure, quasi-equity, hybrid instruments, security interests and guarantees.
- Project financeModelling, non-recourse or limited-recourse structuring, BOT and BOOT schemes, concessions.
- Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)Advising contracting authorities and private sponsors alike; contractual and financial structuring; risk allocation.
- Capital raisingBank debt, private debt, private equity, concessional finance and development finance institutions (DFIs).
- Mergers & acquisitionsDisposals, acquisitions, valuations, financial due diligence, negotiation, execution.
- Corporate restructuringBalance-sheet restructuring, debt renegotiation, turnaround, recovery plans.
- Strategic financial advisoryBusiness plans, business models, feasibility studies, growth and financing strategy.
Four reasons to entrust us with structuring your transaction.
Project files written from the lender's point of view.
A structure is not good because it satisfies you: it is good because it is financeable. We write for the party who will have to say yes, not to reassure you.
A commitment through to disbursement, not just to the report.
Negotiation, documentation, satisfaction of conditions precedent, closing: the mandate does not end with the delivery of a written recommendation.
A team that has tested the project file before defending it.
Every transaction we take on has been submitted to our own internal committees before being presented to a third party — you are never our first sensitivity test.
Sector coverage that avoids blind spots.
Infrastructure, mining, agribusiness, real estate, financial services: we do not discover your sector in the middle of a mandate.
Further reading
- Fundraising advisoryDebt, equity, concessional finance — the detail by instrument.
- M&A advisory in AfricaDisposal, acquisition, valuation, due diligence.
- Project finance in AfricaNon-recourse or limited-recourse financing for infrastructure.
