LOOKING FORWARD TO 2015

After a successful 2014, Novitas is looking forward to bringing some exciting new deals to the market in the New Year

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The Cape Town office is happy to announce that two new members joined our team in the past few months:
    • CHRIS ROLFE: former CEO of Virgin Active South Africa & CEO of Mobilitrix, Chris has a Bachelors Degree from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.
    • DEAN TAYLOR: recent Oxford MBA with over 5 years experience in financial markets, in London.
  • Novitas has set up a debt practice advising on a variety of debt instruments, including listed debt, senior debt, trade finance and asset finance.
  • NEW SERVICE OFFERING: Novitas now provides an independent valuation service, estimating the fair market value of privately held companies.

ABOUT NOVITAS

SERVICES

  • Corporate finance services & strategic advice to mid-sized private companies (USD 5 – USD 100 million).
  • Successfully completed 65 M&A and capital raise transactions.
  • PRESENCE IN: Cape Town, London, Dublin, Milan, Luxembourg, Singapore and Hong Kong.
  • CAPITAL RAISING (LOCAL & OFFSHORE)
  • MANAGEMENT BUY OUTS
  • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
  • VALUATIONS
  • CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING
  • BEE OWNERSHIP TRANSACTIONS

RECENT TRANSACTIONS

Lombard Insurance Group
CAPITAL RAISE:  Sole-advisor and joint arranger on ZAR 1 Billion Medium Term Note Programme; first ZAR 200 million placed (Toer 2 5 year bond issue)
Lombard Insurance Group
SALE: Advixed on the sale of Momentum SCA to Atlantic Fund Service, creating a significant global distribution platform with over EUR 3.5 billion under administration.
Montic Sonnendal
MERGER: Handled the merger of Montic Dairy & Sonnendal Dairies, creating a ZAR 1 billion dairy processing business.
CAPITAL RAISE: Raised ZAR 27 billion in asset finance to fund the merged group’s capital expansion programme.
Equipos Simcorp
SALE: Advised on the EUR 10 million sale of Equips to SimCorp, supporting SimCorp’s single product platform strategy.
Surtee Group Surtee Group
SALE: Sold the South African franchise of Paul Smith, including all assets and infrastructure to The Power of Trading (part of Surtee Group).
Atlantic
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING: Advised on the restructuring of advertising company, FoxP2, to facilitate the exit of one of the founding shareholders.

CURRENT MANDATES:

  • GROWTH CAPITAL RAISE for a Heavy Commercial Vehicle fleet financing business
  • TRADE SALE of IT services provider
  • STRATEGIC SALE of digital agency in the mobile solutions space
  • STRATEGIC SALE of mobile device distributor (top 10 in Africa)
  • MBO of a film production company
  • ADVISING on the international expansion of an integrated fire management solutions provider

CONTACT INFORMATION: [email protected] / [email protected] | +27 21 701 3910 | www.novitas.co.za