Services
Gurus Capital provides a wide scope of investment banking services in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures creation, capital raising and financial consulting. Wide experience of our advisory team and strong relationship with strategic and financial buyers around the world delivers quick and effective solutions for our customers.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Gurus Capital provides Merger & Acquisition advisory on the full range of strategic transactions, including sell-side and buy-side advisories, company mergers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, divestitures and other restructurings.
Sell-side Advisory 
Shareholders may need to sell shares not only to exit the business but for wide variety of other reasons. A company may need to sell non-core assets, product divisions or subsidiaries that don’t meet corporate strategy. Stake in the business can be sold to receive equity financing for growth or financial recovery.
Our experts help to get an objective opinion of the financial condition and market prospects of the company. After valuation and analysis of the business we prepare a package of documents that meet the requirements of strategic and financial investors. We identify the prospective buyers worldwide, negotiate the deal on competitive basis, carefully select the best bidder, coordinate due diligence process, organize data room and prepare transaction documents.
Gurus Capital has a record of successfully advising public and private companies on the sale of their business or divestiture of non-core assets. Expertise on M&A synergy effects, private auction technique and access to global market players provides a favorable outcome to our customers.
Buy-side Advisory 
Gurus Capital delivers a full spectrum of buy-side advisory service to foreign and domestic buyers coordinating acquisition, joint venture or “brownfield” assets purchase. Leading the M&A transactions we help our customers to carry out territory expansion, vertical integration, enrich product portfolio with complimentary products, consolidate the market or obtain know-how. Our advisors have a wide experience in synergy effects of M&A transactions and value based management.
Our experts aid at clarifying the acquisition criteria and possible structure of the transaction. We search and analyze a wide range of potential targets. It leads to maximal strategic matching with search criteria and ensures high synergy effect. Initiating contact with private companies requires sophisticated skills. Our advisors prepare proposals, negotiate terms of transactions, valuate target company and synergy effects of potential transaction. Our experience may be very useful in due diligence of private Russian companies. We consolidate the analytical results of tax advisors and legal advisors and assist in closing of transactions.
Gurus Capital has a wide experience in buy-side projects with international customers. Strong understanding of the auction nuances and negotiation process, expertise in synergy effects and good access to the market players provides high quality service for our clients.
Merger Advisory 
Merger assumes that main shareholders of both merging companies remain in united company. It provides two advantages compared to an acquisition. First, an experience and competence of both executives’ teams will strengthen a unified business. This factor may be crucial for merger with mid-size private company. Second, there is no need for cash payments and funding in the merger transaction, as it assumes shares exchange. So, the saved cash may be invested in united company development.
Joint venture is a good form of strategic alliance which often meets interests of our international customers entering the Russian market through partnership with local company. Joint venture provides quick enter to Russian market and professional support from strong partner experienced in local market.
Gurus Capital provides full scale advisory service at mergers and joint ventures for foreign and domestic customers in out-in, in-out and in-in transactions.
Capital Raising
Gurus Capital provides equity and debt capital raising for a wide variety of reasons
- Start-up capital for new venture
- Expansion capital for organic growth
- Acquisition capital for enterprise purchase
- Emergency capital for liquidity maintenance in distressed situation
Each type of debt or equity financing has its advantages and constraints. Detail understanding of our customers’ financial needs and capital market opportunities provides the best financial solution.
Equity Financing
Debt Financing
Equity Financing
Gurus Capital provides equity financing for mid-cap private and public enterprises through private placement. It assumes direct sale of company equity share to private equity funds, venture funds or other financial investors. Usually private equity groups are not interested in operating the businesses they invest in. They just want a return on invested capital. As a result, financial investors often buy minority stake and want you and your management team to continue running the company. Strategic investors may also buy minority stake in the company, but usually they are interested in gaining control.
Private placement provides sufficient advantages. This instrument is applicable not only for large or medium companies, but also for small private enterprises. Private placement does not require collateral and does not increase financial leverage. Companies that have institutional investors among shareholders enjoy more confidence in the eyes of creditors. An alliance with financial investor helps company to increase business value sufficiently as private equity groups are experts in growing businesses. Financial control by institutional investor sufficiently improves the financial management of the company.
As an equity capital raising advisor, we lead the project while company executives focus on running the business. Our experts prepare the client company for the deal, make an Information Memorandum, select the appropriable equity groups, pre-qualify investors and coordinate their due-diligence. Gurus Capital keeps relations with a wide range of foreign and domestic private equity groups. Our knowledge of the market for debt and equity capital is your most important advantage.
Debt Financing
Gurus Capital will also assist in raising debt capital in additional to equity capital or separate from it. Leverage in the form of bank loans or project financing may be the best solution to satisfy your needs for cash.
We perform an analysis of our customer’s project to determine the needs in capital and its optimal structure. Gurus Capital experts have significant experience in financial modeling and corporate finance. Our advisors will assist you to determine the best capital structure and then raise the capital required.
Financial Consulting
Strategic Analysis 
Gurus Capital experts possess unique combination of strategic marketing experience, M&A advisory, capital market knowledge and business valuation expertise. This set of competence provides our customers qualified advice in analyzing a wide range of strategic alternatives
- Organic growth strategies
- Growth by mergers & acquisitions
- Cross-border M&A possibilities
- Strategic alliances opportunities
Business Valuation
Gurus Capital has extensive experience valuing business enterprises, tangible assets, financial securities and intellectual property, in variety of industries for public and private companies, domestic and international clients. Our experts provide independent valuations for transaction support and strategic planning in full compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in wide variety projects:
- Business valuation
- Strategy valuation
- Synergy effects valuation in M&A transactions
- Project valuation
- Start-up valuation
Restructuring
Gurus Capital provides financial restructuring for both healthy and distressed companies assisting to achieve optimal capital structure. The service includes
- financial modeling
- valuing businesses and securities
- divesting non-core assets
- establishing a new capital structure
- raising additional capital
- arranging mergers with strategic partners
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