Maputo · Moçambique
An international economy operates inside Mozambique: LNG and its contracting chain, mining, multinationals, donors and development finance. It runs on international standards. We work both sides of that boundary.
Entering, transacting and operating in Mozambique means navigating regulation, licensing, banking, currency, labour and counterparty risk in a high-informality market. Most firms arrive without a way to see any of it clearly.
Local companies are locked out of the largest economy in their own country, and rarely for lack of capability. The barriers include access to financing, visibility of tenders, information on how buyers actually procure, the capacity to manage a bid, reporting and audited accounts, and certification and HSE compliance.
Almost nothing here is undoable. It is only undoable alone. Four phases take you from first question to running operation, each one de-risking the next, and you can join at any of them.
Know before you commit
Structure the deal to international standards
Stand up a compliant Mozambican entity
Run it well, with HQ fully sighted
The operators and their contractors need local suppliers, and the local content law now in force requires them. The obstacle is not demand, it is readiness. We take local companies from where they are to where the buyers require them to be, end to end.
Most companies never see the tender, and cannot clear the requirements when they do. We close both gaps.
The local content law promotes joint ventures, and international groups entering the market need credible Mozambican partners.
Bringing an existing company up to standard is one half of the work. The other is creating a supplier where no capable one exists at all: formed, financed, certified and staffed from the ground up. That half is slower and harder, and it is where the real gaps sit.
Investment bankers and management consultants with decades of combined experience in investment management in Mozambique, including in the gas sector. We know what the standard looks like from the buyer's side, and we know how the regulatory and commercial environment here actually works. Both, at once.
As a selected example, we developed and financed a portfolio of stone quarries to serve the large-scale emerging demand for aggregate from the Mozambique LNG project. That supply was created, not found on a list of existing suppliers.
We do not theorise. We have formed, licensed, banked and staffed real Mozambican companies. Every box we would ask you to tick, we have ticked for us.
Advice alone does not get a company to standard. Capability and capital are both required, and capital is usually the harder of the two to find. We invest alongside the companies we develop, and structure the guarantees, working capital and asset finance that turn a capable company into a contractable one, blending public, concessional and private capital where that makes a transaction possible.
We act for one party in a transaction, never both. Where we hold, or intend to hold, an interest in a company, we disclose it before any introduction. We do not make, offer or facilitate improper payments, and we do not accept engagements contingent on a particular procurement outcome. Where a conflict cannot be managed, we decline the work.