Corporate Finance

Our Corporate Finance division has an established track record in providing financial advice to companies, venture capital funds and other investors.

We advise clients in a wide variety of industries and specialised fields. Our services are focused around the following types of operations and business fields:

4.1 M&A

We head up disinvestment and investment processes, capital sourcing or the search for strategic partners.

4.2 Ratings

We assess companies, business lines, intangible assets and financial instruments in the context of transactions, regulations and judicial frameworks.

4.3 Transaction Services

We support buyers and vendors in their transactions through due diligence and other transaction support services.

4.4 Financial Advice

We provide advice on drafting business plans, funding models, business restructuring and on situations of economic conflict.

4.5 Internationalization Process

The services Focus Africa offers to support international expansion are noted for their customisation and flexibility, being adapted to the client’s particular circumstances and needs depending on the target market and the business sector.

Our services include following processes, which may be combined with the other services offered by the firm:

• Identification of distribution channels
• Market surveys and prospecting
• Arrangement of prospection trips
• Contact follow-up
• Securing your participation at international trade fairs
• Assistance with operations worldwide
• Client portfolio management
• Advising and managing your market penetration process
• Advising and monitoring your certification and authorisation processes
• Human resource management in the destination country
• Business Centres

We operate an international network affording us access to a wide circle of international businesses and investors.

Advisory

We provide companies assistance with managing risk, increasing their return and creating value. We work closely with our clients helping them manage their business risks, improve the return on their operations and increase the opportunities generated through their transactions.

The mission of our Forensic department is to provide expert financial advice, producing special and/or expert reports, throughout the duration of any investigation and claims processes a company might find itself involved in. A key factor for securing a successful outcome for our clients is our experience in evaluating both past and future damages, in securing expert evidence and the knowledge obtained through our forensic research.

Through its Forensic and Restructuring division, FOCUS AFRICA provides you with a team of experts in forensics and business restructuring, whose objective is to advise you on:

• How to determine and quantify the resulting damages and loss of earnings in a litigious situation.
• How to detect fraud
• On strategic, operative and financial resizing.
• Presenting a feasibility plan to analyse the current and future financial situation in the Company, providing both the company itself and any third parties involved in the negotiations/agreements to be reached with the security they need.
• Renegotiating debt with financial institutions and obtaining fresh funding.
• Improving performances and cash flow through the monitoring and supervision of your strategic, operational and financial plan.

Legal and Tax Advice

We advise a large number of national and international firms from many sectors, both on how to resolve their day-to-day challenges and on their planning and reorganisation tasks.

Our professional practice includes the following areas:

Tax services:

• General tax matters
• Tax status arising from mergers, acquisitions or company restructuring
• International Taxation
• Real Estate Taxation
• Family Firm Taxation
• Tax authority inspections and procedures
• Transfer pricing
• Creative tax practices

Law services:

• Commercial Law
• Competition Law
• Real Estate Law
• New Technology Law
• Procedural Law
• Public Law
• Employment Law
• International Law

Outsourcing

We offer an integrated outsourcing model based on:

• A complete range of services providing specific solutions to different and ever changing needs.
• A team of multi-disciplinary experts with proven experience in business consulting both to national and international firms.
• The latest technology permitting us to adapt to your requirements, cutting costs and execution times.

These services include the following:

• Accounting and financial advice
• National and international reporting
• Consolidation of financial statements
• Tax administration and management
• Integrated payroll and employee management
• Interim Staffing
• Ex-pats
• Back office

Audit

Our philosophy: integrity, quality and independence.

Our auditing work goes beyond an assessment of financial data, enabling our experts to analyse and take account of the various features of the firm undergoing the audit, notably: its culture, the keys to its management style, the sector in which it operates and its competition, as well as any inherent risks to any of the above factors.

The focus of the FAiSA auditing process allows us to identify areas for improvement and to make recommendations on how to achieve your strategic objectives, by measuring results, providing advice on risk management and through our clear insight into the critical aspects of the business.

Our auditing services:

AUDIT

• Annual auditing of individual and consolidated accounts
• Auditing of accounts following the US I.F.R.S. principles U.K. GAAP, German GAAP and HGB
• Limited reviews and agreed procedures
• Public Sector: annual auditing of accounts and special reports
• Non-profit organisations: verification of allocation and supervision of public funding

MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

• Performance of accounting and financial ratios and indexes.
• Support and assistance in conducting the physical inventory audit of fixed assets and stocks.
• Preparation of consolidated statements of accounts.
• Converting domestic financial statements into U.S. I.F.R.S. financial statements U.K. GAAP and U.S. GAAP.
• Review and analysis of accounting channels.
• Internal audit.

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

• Reports by an independent expert
• Capital increases and decreases
• Merger proposals
• Debt refinancing
• Non-cash contributions
• Mandatory reports when applying for state subsidies
• Arbitrations