Services

Private Placement

After comprehending the clients’ financing objectives, we employ our distribution expertise, and use our close relationship with leading banks, mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds. Such combination makes private placement a successful activity for the firm. Our debt and equity expertise enables us to offer the best pricing strategy to our clients and access to the most fitted investors. We know the locus of capital sources, how they value companies, businesses and, most importantly how they close deals.

Northstone can act as the issuer’s exclusive advisor with the objective of mitigating conflicts of interest between the company and the underwriter. Northstone is not an underwriter and so is completely free of conflicts of interest inherent to the brokerage role. As an independent adviser, we give our client the assurance that they are always receiving advice that is suitable for their best interests.

Capital Raising services comprise:

  • Selection of the appropriate source of funds (public or private) and in the case of public, which stock exchange to list the offering
  • Selection of lead underwriters
  • Preparation and review of the prospectus and other presentation materials
  • Coordination of legal, accounting, underwriting and management responsibilities
  • Determination of an appropriate offering price and timing and
  • Review and monitoring of fees and expenses

The benefits of our service include:

  • Preparing the Company and its executives to access the Capital Markets
  • Performing an initial strategic review and optimization of the investment case
  • Outsourcing the time-consuming underwriter appointment process and utilizing our knowledge of each underwriter to ensure the client chooses the optimum one(s)
  • Applying our latest intelligence on issues ranging from fee levels and syndicate structures, to relative performance of underwriters, so clients always negotiate from a position of strength
  • Designing incentive fee structures that result in the underwriters being truly motivated to outperform across a range of criteria that matters to the company and ensure that incentive fees only get paid if they are deserved
  • Keeping the broker “honest” throughout the process, monitoring valuation and allocation of shares to minimize their temptation to favor the investing institutions over the corporate client
  • Significantly curtailing the legal exposure of directors and shareholders by negotiating key warranty and indemnity terms