STRATEGIC ADVISORY
WE HELP ORGANIZATIONS OVERCOME THEIR MOST COMPLEX CHALLENGES GLOBALLY
OVERVIEW
The Strategic Advisory Complex helps organizations overcome unique challenges, and solve their most complex problems to achieve their strategic objectives.
OUR EXPERTISE
Some of the ways that our significant cross-border experience, and deep expertise can generate game changing solutions for clients:
Capital Markets Advisory
We structure and execute customized financing solutions and advise clients on all aspects of public and private debt and equity transactions. Our advisory includes buyouts, growth capital, platform formation, project financing, public private partnerships and IPOs.
Corporate Strategy / Mergers & Acquisitions
We help our clients in evaluating some of their most strategic and complex decisions. Our advisory services include mergers, and acquisitions, de-mergers, strategic due diligence, divestitures, joint ventures, asset swaps, activism and spin-offs.
Sovreign
Advisory
We deliver innovative advisory services to governments, ministries, state-owned companies and sovereign institutions. We provide strategic advice on a broad range of matters, including restructurings, funding, financing and liability management, M&A, and privatizations and macro policy.
Recapitalization & Restructuring
We deliver highly tailored solutions to our clients in all types of liability-driven capital structure situations and challenges. Our advisory services include debt reduction, covenant modifications, maturity extensions, liability management, distressed asset sales and corporate strategy.
Financial
Engineering
We evaluate complex capital structures and large portfolios to advise our clients on complex risk exposures. Our team consists of experts in structured products, securitization, derivatives and risk management who value complex assets and advise on repositioning and divesting underperforming portfolios.
Transformations & Turnaround Advisory
We use a holistic and prioritized approach to change the financial, operational and value creation trajectory of your business, and to produce game-changing results. We turnaround companies that are facing significant financial and operational challenges, including rapidly deteriorating performance trends, excessive leverage and liquidity concerns.
PAST GAME CHANGING TRANSACTIONS
Concilium’s team has worked on some of the most complex deals and transactions globally. Some of the these game changing deals include:
$800 million multilateral investment fund
Multilateral Fund
Raised Pakistan’s first multilateral investment fund with Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation, and consortium of leading banks in Pakistan.
AT&T
Divestiture
Divestiture of AT&T into seven regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs). It is considered one of the largest and most complex divestiture in the history of telecom sector.
Nigerian National Oil Corporation (‘NNOC’)
Restructuring
Restructuring of the NNOC in 1980 into 14 subsidiaries in Nigeria. It was the largest and most challenging restructuring of a state owned energy company, and involved numerous bureaucratic layers of complexity.
$1.5 billion Private Equity fund for energy investments
Private Equity Fund
Raised a $1.5 billion Private Equity fund with consortium of investors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Pakistan for the acquisition of energy assets in Pakistan. Successfully acquired the leading utility company – Karachi Electric.
K-Electric
Privatization
Privatization of Pakistan’s leading utility company which supplies power to the largest city and economic hub of the country, Karachi. K-Electric has a customer account base of over 2.5 million, and around 10,000 employees. It is a vertically integrated power utility.
Al Dabbagh Group
Transformation
Transformation of Al Dabbagh group from a small trading house in Saudi Arabia to a global conglomerate whose corporate and philanthropic activities reach and touch the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Dubai Aluminum Company (‘DUBAL’)
Project Finance Advisory
DUBAL owns and operates one of the world's largest aluminium smelters. Built on a 480-hectare site in Jebel Ali, the complex's major facilities comprise a 980,000MT per annum aluminium smelter, a 2,335MW power station, desalination plant, and port.
Dubai Drydocks World
Project Finance Advisory
Dubai Drydocks World is the only large dry docks facility in the Persian Gulf. Opening in 1983, it's the largest ship repair facility in the Middle East and one of the world's leading shipyards spread over 200 hectares. It handles around 350 vessels year - mostly very large and ultra-large crude oil tankers.
PrivateBank Chicago
Strategic Due Diligence
Conducted liquidity and funding risk due diligence of PrivateBank for the $5 billion acquisition by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Also developed the post transaction strategy for the integration of PrivateBank’s U.S. business portfolios into CIBC’s.
Hong Kong Mass Transit Rail Corporation (‘MTR’)
Project Finance Advisory
MTR is one of the world’s leading rail-based transport service providers in Hong Kong and China. It is also a major property developer in Hong Kong and also invests in railways in different parts in the world. It has obtained contracts to operate rapid transit systems in London, Stockholm, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Melbourne, and Sydney.