Bravura
Bravura was founded in 1999 and has developed and matured into a distinctive, dynamic investment banking business with a footprint across sub-Saharan Africa, the UK, Australia and Mauritius. Under the leadership of founders, Soria Hay and Ian Matthews, Bravura now has a staff complement of around 110 in offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Windhoek, Port Louis and Sydney. Bravura’s core business includes corporate finance, structured financial solutions, alternative asset management, broad based BEE consulting, as well as making principal investments.
The company’s competitive advantage lies in its independence, flexibility and nimble approach, allowing the company to deliver value to its clients. Bravura’s professionals offer astute and sound financial solutions, while applying rigorous risk management practices.
As a leading empowerment advisor, Bravura has an exemplary track record in sustainable BEE transactions, while driving successful empowerment in its own investments.
Bravura’s expertise in the wholesale investment and corporate markets is underpinned by the company’s holistic approach to developing integrated equity and debt solutions for its clients. It allows Bravura to provide intelligent Corporate Finance and Structured Financial Solutions with a focus on optimising returns for investors.
The Bravura group has been particularly successful in managing cross-border transactions and capital inflows into sub-Saharan Africa.
Bravura has made strategic investments, backing entrepreneurs with considerable potential who require funding to turn their ideas into businesses. As the business grows, the Bravura team continues to broaden its suite of in-house skills and enhance its ability to deliver value to its clients and its investments.
- Scinta, a coal mining junior, Magatar, an underground mining company and Bravura Consulting, a specialist empowerment consulting firm, are three successful examples of Bravura’s own investments.
- With the company’s strength in mining and the expertise in executing cross border transactions, Bravura is well positioned to co-invest and advise on projects, based out of developed markets such as Australia, bringing capital and expertise into Africa.
- Bravura has shown, through its integrated and long-term approach, which it delivers empowerment transactions which are not just sustainable, but also allow clients to score up to double the scorecard points which are usually scored on BEE ownership transactions. In addition to prioritising and applying the principles of broad-based empowerment, this approach involves linking strategic objectives into the transactions and combining elements beyond equity to make a tangible difference to the company being empowered.
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