Advice that keeps ethics and value together.
Ethival advises business owners, investors and their partners on acquisitions, fundraising, financial structuring and strategy.
Who we are
Ethival is an independent strategic and financial advisory firm. Our name joins two words we refuse to separate: ethics and value.
We believe a transaction is a good one only if every party can still stand behind it years later. So we give the same advice whether it earns us a mandate or costs us one, and we say plainly what we know, what we assume and what we cannot promise.
Nearly twenty years of private equity in Africa.
The team behind Ethival has spent close to two decades investing in African companies, completing transactions across a wide range of sectors.
We know how an investor reads a company, because we have been that investor. And we know what building value demands once the deal is signed, because we stayed alongside the companies we backed.
What that experience covers
- Deal sourcing
- Negotiation
- Deal structuring, buy side and sell side
- Value creation alongside management teams
- Corporate governance
- Strategic management
What we hold to
Fairness
Terms that each side can defend, on signing day and long after.
Trust
Confidential by default, and candid about where our own interests lie.
Excellence
Analysis that is checked twice and explained once, clearly.
Transparency
Fees, assumptions and risks set out in writing before you commit.
What we do
Six kinds of mandate. Some lead to a signed transaction; others run alongside the company over the long term.
- Mergers and acquisitions
- We advise buyers and sellers from the first valuation to the signed agreement: preparing the company, identifying the right counterparties, negotiating the terms.
- Capital raising
- We help companies raise equity or debt: sizing the need, building the case, approaching investors and lenders, comparing their offers.
- Financial structuring
- We design the financing and shareholding structure a project needs, then test it against the scenarios that could strain it.
- Advice to owners and shareholders
- We work alongside owners on the decisions that reshape a company's ownership: a new shareholder, a succession, a partnership.
- Value creation through board advisory
- With no transaction in view, we advise boards and management teams on strategy and help them carry it out: choosing priorities, building the value creation plan, tracking results.
- Governance enhancement
- We help companies build the governance that investors and lenders expect: a board that works, clear roles between shareholders and management, reporting that can be relied on.
Who we work with
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Business owners and executives
You are preparing a sale, an acquisition or a funding round, or you want an experienced partner to think your strategy through with.
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Investors
You are assessing an opportunity and need an independent view of its value and its risks.
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Partners
You are a bank, a law firm or an accounting firm, and you want a financial adviser to work with on your clients' transactions.
Tell us about your project
Write to us with a few lines about your situation. Everything you share stays confidential.