We specialize in helping small and medium size
companies design and implement plans that
improve shareholder value
What we do
Our clients
The Consultancy Group for Restructuring and Corporate
Development (PYLON) is a business advisory firm specializing
in closely held investments. We address the problems of small
and medium enterprises (SMEs), and we transform these
companies into sound, sustainable operations that deliver
strong and consistent returns for their shareholders.
Our clients typically exhibit a concentration of outstanding
shares in the hands of a relatively small number of
shareholders. Because of the importance of shareholder
endorsement to driving organizational change, our policy is to
establish a buy-in from these ultimate beneficiaries prior to
beginning an engagement.
The objective of our consulting services is to maximize the
financial value of organizations. We offer guidance consistent
with this objective and provide access to capital and other
resources appropriate to our clients’ needs. We deliver our
services directly to SMEs, sometimes in collaboration with
partners that complement our work.
Some of our clients are owners who look to us to assess an
existing investment and find ways to improve its value; others
are investors who engage us to assess the quality of a target
acquisition. In all cases, however, we seek engagements that
will yield maximum benefit to our clients by through our
performance of an initial assessment and follow through until
the relevant financial milestones are reached. For financial
sponsors, this milestone often involves a liquidity event for an
asset at a value that meets or exceeds a financial hurdle.
Frequently, when an asset is not earmarked for sale, milestones
take the form of earnings targets or a particular capital structure
that reflects an improvement in the value of the asset to its
owners.
Drawing upon years of experience in assessing corporate needs
and helping companies access capital, we operate with an
investor’s mindset. We rely heavily on analytics and deep
financial analysis to reveal trade-offs that can optimize our
clients’ returns.
Our firm’s proprietary investment management methodology,
which we call IM+, helps us streamline the process of evaluating
companies and devising cohesive operating and financial plans.
These plans, without exception, promote good business
practices and corporate responsibility, which in turn build and
sustain our clients’ organizations.
The ultimate beneficiaries of our services are mostly private
equity firms, family investment offices, and individual investors
who desire effective solutions and long term support for their
holdings. Within this spectrum of stakeholders, we only engage
with those who understand and appreciate the value that is
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added through the enabling of positive change, both within their
organizations and within the regional communities in which they
operate.
Transaction services
As companies move through different stages in their lifecycles,
their needs change. At one point in any company’s life, the
question arises as to whether to seek external financing to fuel
growth. For those companies that are not well prepared for such
an event, the process of soliciting external financing can be
daunting, frustrating, and disappointing.
Arising from our focus and extensive experience in improving
the value of organizations, we have the expertise to transform a
company into an attractive investment opportunity. Investors
look for signs of growth and assurances for returns on their
investments. Our role is to specify and prioritize interventions
that respond to the needs, concerns, and requirements of
capital providers.
building companies that produce attractive economic returns
and that are sustainable. We are biased towards an inside out
approach drawing on solutions that, with deft management, can
be designed and implemented from within our clients. When
specialized solutions are desirable, we invite partners with
special skills to complement our plan.
We have created a proprietary investment management process
that we call IM+. This process helps us streamline the process
of driving change inside organizations. At the same time, IM+
builds our client’s capabilities to discover and implement their
own value creation plans. We strongly believe that companies
operating within any given field have rich corporate experience
in which resides answers that simply need to be validated
before being embraced. In this case, we assume the role of a
guide and coach, taking a deep and hard look at our clients’
organizations from a value creation perspective. We do not
shrink before the hard financial questions upon which decisions
concerning sustainability must be made.
We serve both companies and investors. Companies hire us to
identify problems and conditions that need to be addressed
before they seek capital. We help in identifying risks, and in
specifying changes that are needed to unlock a company’s full
value. We help build a story of growth. We assist companies to
configure and implement interventions through comprehensive,
measurable, and adaptable action plans. For investors exploring
potential acquisitions, we provide pre-acquisition assessments
that reveal insights into target value and performance
opportunity under varying recommended changes. We also
provide post-acquisition assessment that produces definitive
recommendations for creating value.
Active investment management
SMEs are constantly faced with choices that bear directly on
their future viability. Regardless of being an operational choice,
a financial choice, or a strategic choice, positive outcomes favor
decisions that are made on sound business principles. All too
often, SMEs do not possess the organizational experience that
characterizes the true expert. Such expertise must often come
from outside of the organization.
Our role is based on this premise, and our clients engage us
because of our experience in shaping companies for growth.
From the mindset of a potential investor, we guide the way to
We expect our initial interventions to be successful, and we are
thereafter committed to helping our clients address questions
that will evolve as their lifecycles continue. We embrace the
idea of long-term advisory service to our clients as they
progress in meeting the goals and achieving the milestones that
they set for themselves
For more information on our services and our company, please contact us on:
Telephone: +202 2795 9834
Fax:
+202 2792 5682
Email:
info@pylonfinancial.com
Website:
www.pylonfinancial.com
Address:
The Consultancy Group for Restructuring
and Corporate Development (PYLON) S.A.E
1095 Corniche El Nil
th
Apt 35, 4 floor
Garden City
Cairo, Egypt
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