Capital held is potential.
Capital deployed is progress.
We bridge the two.

Integrated corporate and project finance advisory for investors and businesses building Africa’s future.

ABOUT EARMARK

Where strategy, capital, and conviction converge.

Earmark is a specialist corporate finance and project finance advisory firm. We align your corporate capital strategy with project-level execution – ensuring your balance sheet and your project capital stack work in concert.

This integrated approach ensures your most critical mandates are never handled in isolation. Whether we are optimising a capital structure, executing an acquisition or disposal, or implementing a project finance transaction, we drive the process to ensure every decision reinforces a cohesive strategy and translates into measurable progress.

Corporate and project finance advisory services in Africa

OUR SERVICES

Integrated advisory across corporate finance and project finance.

Corporate Finance: Strategic Capital Optimisation

Structuring and optimising corporate capital to maximise business performance and growth potential. We advise on balance sheet optimisations and funding structures that align your financial position with your long-term objectives. Our focus is on ensuring your capital structure provides the resilience and flexibility required to support your strategic goals.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals

Navigate complex transactions with confidence. We provide end-to-end advisory for companies acquiring, merging, or divesting assets. We manage the full deal lifecycle – from initial strategic rationale and target screening to financial due diligence, valuation, and complex deal structuring. Whether navigating a competitive process or executing a structured private disposal, our expertise ensures that every stage of the transaction is executed effectively and remains aligned with your broader strategic objectives.

Project Finance Advisory: Bankability and Lifecycle Execution

Translate complex industrial and infrastructure concepts into bankable, executable projects. We provide structured solutions and comprehensive transaction support from inception through to financial close. Our expertise lies in assessing bankability, building financial models, and navigating the intricate requirements of commercial lenders and development finance institutions. We ensure optimal risk allocation and commercial sustainability – driving the process through to capital deployment and ensuring long-term value is realised.

Valuations

Deliver independent and data-driven valuations to inform high-stakes investment and financing decisions. Grounded in technical rigour, our assessments cover listed and unlisted entities, assets, and project equity across various sectors. We provide the defensible analysis required for complex transactions and strategic planning – ensuring every outcome is built on an objective understanding of value and risk.

Due Diligence

Deliver detailed financial and commercial assessments to ensure informed decision-making. Our due diligence provides the data-driven clarity required to proceed with conviction or the evidence to walk away. By moving beyond surface-level analysis, we identify the underlying drivers of value and risk, ensuring your transactions are built on a transparent and defensible foundation.

WHY EARMARK

What we bring to every engagement.

Integrated corporate finance advisory approach in Africa

We are integrated:

Earmark provides a unified advisory model that bridges the gap between corporate capital strategy and project-level delivery, ensuring total alignment between strategic intent and operational reality. Our clients benefit from a comprehensive advisory service that integrates high-level financial planning with the technical requirements of bankable execution.

Deep sector expertise in corporate and project finance advisory

We understand your sector:

We deliver advisory grounded in the commercial and operational realities of the industries we serve. This deep understanding is built through focused engagement and a deliberate commitment to the sectors most critical to industrial growth. The result is a financial strategy that is not only technically sound but practically executable within your specific market context.

Conviction-driven corporate finance advisory services

We give you conviction:

We provide the definitive perspective required to move from potential to capital deployment. By grounding every insight in rigorous, data-driven analysis and operational reality, we empower our clients to act with confidence and to commit capital with conviction.

Connecting capital to corporate and project finance opportunities in Africa

We connect you to capital:

Sound advice is most effective when it is activated by access to the right capital. Earmark maintains established relationships across the funding landscape and we ensure that your capital requirements are matched with the specific type of funding that best supports your risk profile and long-term objectives.