Start-up and growth capital raising
We prepare the company before we take it to money: a defensible model, accounts that reconcile, and a story an investor can check. Then we build the investor list, run the process and negotiate the terms.
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Neutron Advisory
Business strategy and financial advisory for founders, boards and owners. We raise capital, facilitate transactions, build the strategy and stay on until it is running.
Services
Strategy and capital, from the same desk.
Many firms hand you a plan and leave, or raise money for a plan nobody checked. We do both pieces, so we can tell you honestly when the plan itself is the problem.
Transaction and deal facilitation
Buy side and sell side. Valuation, structuring, due diligence coordination and negotiation support, through to completion and the handover that follows it.
Strategy formulation
We build the plan with your board in the room. You end up with named owners, dated milestones and a clear view of what each choice costs.
Implementation support
Most strategies fail after the document is signed off. We stay on through delivery, chairing the review, fixing what the plan got wrong, and handing over when the routine runs without us.
Financial reporting and controls
IFRS conversion, reporting policy, management accounts that a board can act on, and the control environment that keeps them true. This is the practice’s deepest bench.
Board and owner advisory
Governance structure, board composition, shareholder agreements and the awkward conversations that decide whether a family business survives its second generation.
How an engagement runs
Four stages, and we tell you at the first one if we are wrong for the job.
The stages are sequential on purpose. We will not take a capital mandate for a company whose numbers we have not seen.
Scope
A short paid diagnostic. We agree the question, look at the numbers, and tell you whether we are the right firm for it. Some engagements end here, honestly.
Build
The substantive work. Model, plan, information memorandum, reporting policy, whatever the mandate calls for, built with your team rather than delivered over the wall.
Take it to market
Where the mandate involves capital or a transaction, we run the process, manage the counterparties and negotiate alongside you.
Stay through delivery
We remain on a defined review rhythm until the change is running in the business. Then we hand over and leave.
Where the depth is
The practice is strongest where regulation, capital and operating reality meet. That means capital markets, microfinance banking under Central Bank of Nigeria supervision, energy infrastructure, commercial property and consumer businesses.
Those are demanding sectors. Each one carries its own licensing regime, its own capital thresholds and its own way of being scrutinised. We have worked inside them long enough to know where a deal usually breaks.
The practice also serves the Group’s own companies. We hold them to the standard we sell, which is a fair test of whether we believe in it.
Practice facts
- Practice
- Business strategy and financial advisory
- Clients
- Founders, boards, owner-managers and family businesses
- Sector depth
- Capital markets, microfinance banking, energy infrastructure, real estate, consumer
- Reporting expertise
- IFRS, Nigerian tax law, sector regulatory frameworks
- Engagement shape
- Fixed-scope diagnostic, then a defined mandate
- Independence
- We disclose any Group interest before we accept a mandate
Next step
Start with the diagnostic.
Send us the question and the last two sets of accounts. We will tell you what we think before we tell you what it costs.