We advise high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and government sponsors on large-ticket capital transactions, from structuring through to close, across Africa and global capital markets.
SilverValley Advisory is a private capital advisory firm specialising in complex, large-ticket transactions across Africa and international capital markets.
We work with a select group of clients, high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and sovereign project sponsors, who require more than an introduction. They need an advisor who will carry the full weight of a transaction, from inception through to execution.
Advisory on large-scale infrastructure, energy, and sovereign-sponsored capital transactions, structured from the ground up for bankability and international capital market readiness.
Infrastructure projects, whether government-sponsored or privately promoted, require a particular kind of advisory capability. They are long-cycle, highly structured, politically sensitive, and technically complex. The gap between a promising project and a fundable one is wider than most sponsors anticipate.
At SilverValley, our project finance advisory goes far beyond a financing introduction. We work with sponsors from the earliest stages, assessing project readiness, advising on structure, preparing institutional-grade documentation, and then engaging selectively with the capital providers best positioned for the mandate.
Our work spans Oil & Gas, Agriculture, and Mining across Africa. We understand what development finance institutions, commercial banks, and infrastructure equity funds need to see, and we help sponsors get there.
Our project finance team works with a small number of sponsors at any one time. Early engagement is always preferable.
Structured thinking and transactional discipline for organisations navigating material capital decisions. Retained where the stakes are significant and independent counsel matters.
We advise corporate acquirers, institutional sponsors, and government-linked entities on the structuring and execution of acquisition finance across Africa. Our work spans leveraged buyouts, acquisition debt structuring, and the coordination of senior, mezzanine, and equity tranches to optimise transaction terms and preserve flexibility post-close.
Engagements are led by practitioners with direct experience in private credit and structured finance. Clients receive advisory that reflects how capital actually moves in African markets, not how it is modelled in isolation.
Minimum transaction size: USD 10 million. All mandates are subject to prior review and acceptance.
Corporations, institutional investors, private equity sponsors, and government-linked entities seeking to acquire operating businesses or assets across Africa.
Also relevant for family offices and UHNIs with significant acquisition mandates, where transaction scale and complexity require dedicated advisory support rather than a generalist approach.
Early-stage conversations are always welcome. The best advisory relationships begin before the formal process does.
Non-dilutive financing secured against receivables, inventory, commodities, and hard assets, structured to give sponsors access to capital without giving up equity.
Asset-based lending and structured finance give businesses access to capital they already have, locked inside receivables, inventory, contracts, or hard assets. When structured well, it is often one of the most cost-effective and non-dilutive forms of corporate financing available.
We advise sponsors and businesses on the structuring, documentation, and sourcing of asset-based credit facilities, working across receivables finance, inventory finance, trade finance, commodity finance, and real estate-backed capital structures.
Our particular strength is in cross-border and Africa-facing structures, where local asset quality must be communicated clearly to international capital providers, and where the security package must be designed with both local legal frameworks and lender requirements in mind.
Tell us about your asset base. A short conversation is often all it takes to identify the right structure.
Strategic capital advisory to private equity sponsors, growth investors, and family offices, across co-investment, fund strategy, portfolio situations, and exit planning.
Private equity sponsors operate in a world of competing pressures, deployment timelines, portfolio performance, investor expectations, and exit windows. The most valuable advisory relationship in this environment is one that understands your structure, your investors, and your commercial logic before making a single recommendation.
SilverValley's private equity advisory practice works with a select group of sponsors and family offices on transactions where discretion, speed, and execution quality matter most. We advise on co-investment structures, GP-led secondaries, portfolio company capital needs, and strategic exits.
Our Africa and UK market coverage means we can advise on cross-border portfolio situations and capital raises that require knowledge of both markets simultaneously.
Speak with us in confidence. Our work in this area is often highly sensitive and always discreet.
Mandate-only advisory on bank guarantees, standby letters of credit, and proof of funds facilities for organisations and private principals across Africa.
SilverValley Advisory works with organisations and private clients who require access to structured financial instruments as part of a broader capital or compliance strategy. This is a discreet practice, conducted under mandate, and structured around the specific requirements of each engagement.
All engagements are accepted on a mandate basis and subject to prior qualification. Minimum transaction size: USD 10 million.
Organisations operating across Africa frequently require structured instruments to satisfy regulatory conditions, fulfil tender obligations, or provide financial assurance to counterparties. We advise on the procurement, structuring, and deployment of bank guarantees, standby letters of credit, and proof of funds facilities, with particular attention to instrument credibility and issuing institution standing.
We do not operate on a brokerage basis. Our role is to advise on structure, source, and execution from a position of independence, coordinating with issuing banks, legal counsel, and counterparties across jurisdictions as required.
All conversations are confidential and conducted under mandate. We will only proceed where the engagement is the right fit.
Capital structuring and advisory for sponsors with environmental, social, or governance mandates, green bonds, sustainability-linked facilities, and impact-aligned transactions.
The growth of ESG and sustainable finance has created genuine opportunities for well-structured sponsors, particularly in Africa, where the infrastructure deficit, the energy transition, and the scale of development need create a natural alignment between impact and investment return.
SilverValley advises sponsors on accessing ESG-aligned capital: green bond issuance, sustainability-linked credit facilities, climate finance, and impact-linked equity structures. We help sponsors understand the framework requirements, design the appropriate instrument, and present the transaction to the growing universe of ESG-mandated capital providers.
We approach sustainable finance with the same rigour we bring to any other transaction, because impact investors are increasingly sophisticated, and a poorly structured ESG instrument is no easier to place than a poorly structured conventional one.
We'd welcome the conversation. ESG finance done well requires as much care in structuring as any conventional mandate.
Headquartered in London, with active financing relationships across Africa. SilverValley operates as a discreet, concierge advisory firm serving UHNIs, HNIs, multinationals, and global enterprises with financing requirements above USD 10 million and complementary wealth-stewardship needs.
SilverValley Advisory was built on a simple conviction: that the most consequential capital transactions in Africa are not well served by the existing advisory landscape.
Large investment banks focus on the largest global mandates. Smaller advisory firms often lack the capital market relationships, structuring capability, or cross-border experience to handle complex transactions. And introduction-based brokers, who connect a borrower with a lender and then step aside, add little lasting value to either party.
We built SilverValley to occupy the space between those categories: a boutique with genuine capital market depth, personal client relationships, and the willingness to carry the full weight of a transaction from start to finish.
With deep roots in African capital markets and a London base, we bring a combination of international market access and local fluency that very few advisors in our space can offer.
All enquiries are received in confidence. If you have a transaction in mind, we recommend opening a mandate directly, a relationship director will be in touch within 48 hours.
For new transaction enquiries, we recommend using the mandate form, it gives us the information we need to assign the right relationship director and come to the conversation prepared.
Tell us about your transaction. A relationship director will be personally assigned to your enquiry and will be in touch within 48 hours, under strict confidentiality, to walk you through next steps.
Minimum mandate size: SilverValley Advisory works on transactions with a minimum deal size of USD 10 million. Submissions below this threshold will not be progressed, though we are happy to direct you to appropriate alternatives.
Your mandate enquiry has been received. A relationship director will be personally assigned to your case and will contact you within 48 hours at the details you provided.
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Last updated: January 2025
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