Cedar has a very innovative advisory and transaction services practice.
If you are firm seeking equity capital from $5million to $200 million, Cedar has the ability to assist in this area. It has strong relationships with Private Equity Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Ruling Family Investment Offices, Investment Companies, Family Offices and High Net worth individuals across Japan, Singapore, India, Middle East, Europe and the US. Recent examples include a mandate to raise $200 million for a new petro-chemical project from cross-border investors.
If you are a firm seeking to sell a company or its divisions, Cedar can assist in finding a buyer. This could be a strategic investor globally seeking to grow their business, or a private equity fund seeking to expand the business of one of their existing investments.
If you are a firm seeking to invest in a strategic asset for growth or new market expansion, Cedar can assist in identifying targets, doing a rapid short-list, validate the quality of the potential asset, and assist in completing the transaction.
In addition, for private equity funds, Cedar is in a position to develop fund strategy, identify sectors and targets to invest in, conduct commercial due diligence of potential investments and fix under-performing assets. It’s due diligence approach is fastrack and very effective – its team includes bankers and consultants with real industry experience and it validates the quality of the target’s financials, and its business model using the Balanced Scorecard framework from a financial, customer, channel, product, process, organizational and business technology perspective, helping to quickly determine the potential future value of the enterprise and the attractiveness of the transaction.
Cedar has worked with over 40 private equity funds across the world including KKR, Standard Chartered Private Equity, Carlyle, Abraaj Capital and Dubai Investments.
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