SERVING CORPORATE CLIENTS’ NEEDS

Ceres Capital has a thorough understanding of corporate clients’ requirements, which begin with the need for expert knowledge and advice on the South African market. Ceres Capital operates in the market niche of financial structuring and asset trading and presently concentrates its expertise on the South African market. By deploying its specialist skills alongside other financial and legal advisors, Ceres Capital provides clients with the integrated and focused service they require.

Our competitive advantage is based on a detailed knowledge of local financial regulations, markets and business practices. Achieving success in the South African corporate and project finance markets requires an expert knowledge of local capital and money market conditions, taxation regulations and company law. Ceres Capital has devoted considerable time and effort into researching the South African market and can subsequently offer guidelines to US and Global corporations wishing to develop their financial interests in this region.

We recognize that commercial opportunity does not come without an element of attendant financial risk. Our aim is to enable clients to maximize their opportunity by managing risk whilst providing the absolute discretion necessary in such arrangements. Most importantly, we recognize that each client’s needs are specific and different. We can offer the full range of financial structuring and asset trading services but strongly believe that a considered and tailored approach is the only effective route to achieving any of the following objectives:

• Minimization of hard currency exposure
• Hedging of political/sovereign risk
• Maximizing tax efficiency
• Addressing exchange control limitations
• Raising cost-effective finance
• Generating maximum local currency with the minimum hard currency input.