STRUCTURED FINANCE

The provision of advice on overall financial structuring is integral to Ceres Capital’s areas of business activity. It forms the umbrella under which all other disciplines of financial engineering are deployed.

Ceres Capital offers its expertise in Corporate Finance covering all aspects of financial structuring, fund raising and mergers and acquisitions. We focus on opportunities to utilize structures involving sovereign debt, restricted funds or investment incentives. Specifically, we have the ability to analyse and implement the structuring of a company’s balance sheet; implement tax-efficient investment structures; establish offshore holding mechanisms; create new securities for specific investors and advise on any valuations or negotiations involved in mergers, acquisitions or the formation of joint ventures.

Ceres Capital has specific expertise in the field of Project Finance. We have established widespread contacts with financiers and investors to raise project finance for initiatives in Southern Africa. This applies equally to companies which are either restructuring their South African interest or are moving into South Africa for the first time. Project experience has embraced a spectrum of industries ranging from major infrastructure to tourist ventures and the specialized areas of Real Estate and Shipping.

In Commodity Finance, Ceres Capital has the ability to offer and package solutions using creative techniques in counter trade transactions, whether they be forward purchases, counter purchases, barter or buyback agreements.

New areas of opportunity and the development of innovative products are constantly being researched and geared towards maximizing returns through the most efficient use of financial techniques within regulatory constraints.