About Tactus Advisory

Africa Cross Border

As growth in Africa gathers pace, there is an increasing requirement to consult and work with expert advisors to support market penetration, and to gain an insight into the African market.

Our mission is to provide companies with advisory and consulting services designed to grow international business, cross border investment and trade. Tactus Advisory Services assists companies with expanding their services, revenues and customers through international market expansion. Our cross border managing partner has more than 15 years of combined experience in senior executive and leadership positions, strategic alliances and business development.

Our specific service offerings include:

Tactus Advisory Services provides its clients with innovative solutions which can be tailored to your business needs and industry and markets served. We offer strategic international market expansion and planning services including collaborating and advising on appropriate direct and indirect market entry strategies. Our Africa-Centric knowledge can assist your business in maximizing opportunities and developing plans to mitigate business, financial and operating risks.

Our advisory services can assist companies seeking entry to African markets for the purposes of setting up new business. The Southern Africa Development Community is envisaged as a burgeoning free trade area, which now links 250 million people in the southern and Central African region with some US$500 billion worth of goods and services.

African sovereigns and sub sovereigns are also making greater use of capital markets for their funding needs, which requires specialist technical advice and assistance to support their growth and funding requirements.

At Tactus Advisory Services, we acknowledge that relationships and intellectual property are critical to the ongoing success of your business. We offer unique, value-added strategic business and marketing introduction services. Making connections is easy; meeting the right connections in a new and unfamiliar market is certainly not. Our company’s extensive network of industry contacts enables our clients to gain preferred access to key business and community leaders, economic development organizations, professional services providers, business partners and potential investors.

We offer enhanced strategic business introduction services to address the unique location needs of our clients.

Our strategic business introduction programs and services extend to assisting organizations in finding and developing distributors, agents, acquisition targets, strategic alliances, joint venture partners, procurement, vendor and contracting manufacturing partners and more.

Cross Border Advisory

Our cross border advisory division focuses primarily on Africa (15 countries), India and Malaysia.

Our main services include:

  • Market entry strategy
  • Industry analysis
  • Counter party matching
  • Advice on the full M&A deal cycle led by our Tactus Capital team
  • Equity and debt capital raising per country led by our Tactus Capital team
  • Capital sourcing – India or Malaysia to South Africa
  • Due diligences and evaluations

The Tactus Group has performed extensive advisory and transaction work across the African continent.

Our African Footprint

African countries where Tactus Group has performed advisory and transaction work include:
  • Angola
  • Botswana
  • Cameroon
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
Our approach in these countries has been very successful where we partner with local companies/ teams providing the technical expertise and building capacity to be able to maximize delivery to our clients in these countries and the relationships introduced by our local partners.