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For more than 17 years Planet Capital provides its clients services on sustainable business growth and increasing company's value. There are many ways to reach that - from bank credit and issuing bonds to selling stakes to investors and holding IPO.
Our company runs its business according to the project work criteria. This means that we share an individual approach to each client and thoroughly analyze our client's needs and aims.
We start with preliminary communications, express-evaluation of business and case analysis, and then discuss the most optimal means and aims with client's shareholders and managers. Every decision is made through the process of open dialog entered into for the fair consulting on the needs and interests of each party. Individual approach allows our company to maintain constructive and transparent cooperation with our clients.
Planet Capital has a strong position on the internal and international capital markets which makes it easier for our clients to obtain investments or sell a business.
Internationally our main business connections are those in Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland, where business is transparent and predictable and where at the same time high legal standards on corporate government and information disclosure take place. Our main target is to create a friendly interface and reach mutual understanding between investors and stockholders, providing with information for the optimal structure of deal for our client.
What we can be useful for:
- often the case needs consultancy, so we help defining your possibilities and aims;
- before decision making you need to know your company value, so we conduct express-evaluation of your business;
- sometimes you are not sure if your company is ready for the investment negotiations and procedures, so we list your problems to overcome and necessary measures to be taken;
- almost every company has difficulties in understanding of specifically what a kind of investor it was looking for. Because the investors bring not only funds and resources but their vision and influence with them. That is why in every case we work individually with investor profiles.
- and, at last, you don't go selling your business every day, and we deal with it daily, because that's what we're for on the market,so our professional advice and our business connections may save your money and time.
1. Bank Financing
Bank financing is the first and the most common background of the growth of current activity and company's efficiency.
Our professionals have a profound experience concerning bank products. Projects to be mentioned are those of trade financing, floating capital financing, investment projects financing. Please see also "Company/Our history".
2. Issuing Bonds
Bonds is the most usual funding for those companies which in the meantime lack the needed credit tranches but at the same time have a good credit history, strong reputation on the market and an impressive income indicated. Please see also "Transactions in securities market".
3. Private Placement
Private placement is an instrument of raising funds for the diversification and broadening company's activity either by organic growth or by M&A transactions. Sometimes this type of funding is used when a company cannot allow itself any credit support. New share emissions are the most usual way of the private placement.
Typical milestones:
1) Company's preparation for the attraction of private investor: examining company's readiness for the attraction of the investor; preliminary evaluation of business; conducting due diligence; upgrading the system of corporate governance.
2) Preparation to the deal: defining primary parameters for the transaction; premarketing and defining potential investors; preparation of the information materials including the Investment memorandum;
3) Following through the transaction: organizing presentations; conducting negotiations with interested investors, screening of the optimal investor; structuring the deal; support on the stage of signing the sales agreement; information disclosure (optional).
4. Attracting strategic investors
In case if your business reaches its maximum and further growth is unavailable due to the stable present group of stockholders you turn to the strategic alliances or to the sale of your business to the investor acting on the same segment of the market.
IG Planet Capital offers its services in search of strategic investor, we formulate the search criteria and conduct professional evaluation of stake for sale. Also we have a profound experience in preparing documentation in volumes and forms needed to the strategic investors, and we have an experience in conducting negotiations for the competent representation of your company. Working stages of the process of attracting the strategic investor coincide with the working stages of private placement listed above.
5. Conditioning and conducting M&A
Purchasing the active player acting on the market segment allows the fast capture of his market share. Crisis dictates the optimization of the deals of the kind.
Planet Capital has an extensive experience in organizing and conditioning M&A deals (please see "Our clients") namely in search of target companies for the acquisition on the specific market segment, in professional evaluation of the business to be sold or bought; preparation of the necessary documents (preliminary offers, evaluation reports, analytical materials, investment memoranda), in structuring and modeling the deal in accordance with the specific client's features and interests.
We assist stockholders and chief executives of our companies-clients in representing their business to the buyers and in analyzing the given offers. We consult our clients on presale preparation of business, on possible sale price, on formulating Memorandum of understanding; we offer support on the stage of signing the agreement and closing the deal.
Such deals may be ideally combined with the private placement as means of financing the acquisition.
6. IPO
IPO (Initial Public Offering) is a placement of company's shares in the public market, as a rule, among the general public. This tool can be used as a partial exit for existing shareholders by selling shares they hold, and to attract additional money by issuing new shares.
We provide access to Russian main trading platforms and are the only Russian Certified adviser on entering the world's largest trading platform for mid-cap companies NASDAQ OMX.
For more information please see "Transactions in securities market". |
