Acquisitions
We acquire whole businesses, parts of businesses and meaningful stakes in Nigerian companies, alongside aligned co-investors, one transaction at a time.
Three ways in. Each one built around the business you have built.
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Whole businesses
For owners ready to step back. We take on the board, the plan and the responsibility, and we protect what made the business worth buying: its people, its customers and its standing.
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Partial businesses
Part of a company, or a division carved out of a larger group, given the capital and attention to run as a business in its own right.
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Meaningful stakes
For owners who want capital and a serious shareholder without selling outright. You keep running the company. We bring governance, financing and a seat at the table.
Fast, certain and in confidence.
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First conversation
Within two business days of your approach. Held in confidence, and it commits you to nothing.
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Indicative offer
Within four weeks of receiving the information we ask for, in writing, with the price and how we would pay it.
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Diligence and agreement
Three to eight weeks of exclusivity. We tell you at the start what we will examine and who will examine it.
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Completion
Within six months of the first conversation. Your advisers set the pace as much as we do.
The price we name is the price we pay.
We do our diligence before we name a number, not after. We do not open high to win exclusivity and then grind the price down while you are tied to us. If something we find changes the value, we tell you what it is and show you why.
The business stays the business.
We buy businesses because they work. Our plan starts with the people and customers who made it work, and you see that plan before you sign. Owners who stay on keep a real role. Owners who leave know who is taking over, and what they will be expected to do.
The moments that bring a business to us.
Succession without a successor. A shareholder disagreement that cannot be resolved while the parties remain in business together.
A partial exit for liquidity or diversification. Capital requirements that cannot be met from existing shareholders. Regulatory or competitive pressure that makes independence untenable.
- We do not take passive positions with no say in governance.
- We do not re-price a deal after exclusivity without showing the reason.
- We do not pay for a forecast management cannot defend.
- We do not proceed without full diligence access.
Your business, in confidence.
A first conversation commits you to nothing. We do not disclose the fact of an approach, and we answer within two business days.