Our Services

Based in Luxembourg, we provide services to clients in local market, and in an international setting.

Our team leverages more than 14 years' experience in M&A advisory, financial and strategy consulting, to provide a broad spectrum of advisory services.

Share Transmission

Ranging from minority to majority stakes, companies' shareholders consider to transfer the ownership of shares under various scenarios, such as shares handover to the management team, to the family members, or to external acquirers.

Cignite partners assists to ensure the smooth process of share transmission, from providing unbiased and independent valuation on the shares, preparation of marketing materials (i.e. teaser, information memorandum, long-list of potential acquirer / investors), introduction to external buyers, or intermediation within the family or company, to reaching an agreement for the share deal.

Disposal (Sale)

of business units or strategic assets

Cignite Partners helps business decision makers dispose non-strategic business units, or loss-making branches, so that they focus on core business, or to allocate capital to more attractive projects.

By organizing a private tendering process with selected buyers, we strive to convert these assets into the highest cash-proceeds along most favorable terms & conditions in the market.

Our expertise across various industries and sectors allow us to access the most relevant buyers, domestically and internationally.

Acquisition

of companies or innovative startups

Cignite Partners accompanies the implementation of external growth strategy for corporate clients. By taking on a buy side mandate, we co-define the acquisition strategy with the client, tap into our local and cross-border resources, and approach potential acquisition targets to trigger an interest to sell.

This match-making process is enriched by our evaluation of target’s business model, their financials (i.e. past & forward-looking business plan) to define a range of enterprise value.

We handle acquisition cases with tailor-made approach and market insights, while keeping aware of the merger synergies and highlighting contingencies that are likely to impact the deal value.

Fundraising

from external investors

We offer fundraising services with A-to-Z responsibilities, to help start-ups and scale-ups raise funds from external investors, including private, qualified investors, and public funds.

We co-define a fundraising strategy to grasp the equity story and the unique selling points. We prepare the marketing materials dedicated to investors and forward-looking business plan (post-money valuation). We approach and match-make the right investors. We negotiate term sheets, coordinating the due diligence, and finalizing the deal.

For entrepreneurs envisioning a fundraising, but hesitating on their stage of development and/or on the investor readiness, we also offer mission dedicated to assessing market-product fit, key operational metrics (i.e. retention, LTV/CAC) along with the competitive landscape.

Valuation

As a cornerstone to help our clients during their decision-making process in previous four types of deals, we also offer valuation services for privately-owned business and strategic assets (i.e. business units, commercial real estate).

For privately owned companies (non-listed), we analyze business model, research comparable, and establish a valuation using methods such as discounted cash-flows (DCF), transaction multiple (i.e. EBITDA, EBIT), discounted dividend Model (Gordon-Shapiro) and net asset value.
For strategic assets (i.e. commercial real estate, business unit), we conduct a stand-alone valuation using methods such as transacted prices on comparable properties/assets, rental yield, residual value (of land leasehold) and latent value of land reserves (i.e. constructible potential)

We consider our valuation services as an invaluable tool, suitable to the clients who wish to gauge our services offering, and to challenge their price expectations with an independent valuation.