What We Do
CLink offers a broad spectrum of financial and strategic advisory services from straight forward M&A advice, capital (equity/debt) raisings or a strategic revision of your company, to complex financial restructurings, developing new revenue lines and multi-layered investment propositions etc. We have local international access to Start-up Capital, Angel Investors, Hedge Funds, Series A/B Capital, Senior and Subordinated long and short term Debt, Islamic debt, Green Investors, Impact Investors and more.
CLink’s approach is very personal and based on solid relationship building, where everyone should benefit. Our experienced and diversified team will provide a complete solution to you in a dedicated, tailored, cost effective and timely manner.
CLink offers a broad spectrum of financial and strategic advisory services from straight forward M&A advice, capital (equity/debt) raisings or a strategic revision of your company, to complex financial restructurings, developing new revenue lines and multi-layered investment propositions etc. We have local international access to Start-up Capital, Angel Investors, Hedge Funds, Series A/B Capital, Senior and Subordinated long and short term Debt, Islamic debt, Green Investors, Impact Investors and more.
CLink’s approach is very personal and based on solid relationship building, where everyone should benefit. Our experienced and diversified team will provide a complete solution to you in a dedicated, tailored, cost effective and timely manner.
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
We offer broad range of services in the M&A Advisory space by taking a transaction from the nascent stage through successful closure
· identify opportunities,
· identify and make contact with possible targets,
· ideal valuation through financial modeling based on industry and market
•optimum structuring, •provide bidding process advice, •participating in negotiations of key terms and covenants, •actively engaging with legal counsel during documentation phase, •regulatory approvals, •closing and even post-closing media engagement. •Where conditions permit, we are also minority principal investors providing further comfort to the buy side. We have experience in advising on both buy-side and sell-side, acquisition and divestment transactions. Our unique approach is to identify opportunities that are not being actively marketed. This benefits our client from non-competitive situations. Our ability to identify and pre-qualify targets on a confidential basis has proven to be key to our successes. We look for synergies, strategic partnership, and value enhancement for all parties and we are selective in accepting transactions that we feel will generate positive value for our clients and provide long term returns.
Investment Solutions and Opportunities
We selectively advice our local and international investors (corporates, FIs, development and multilateral institutions, funds and HNW individuals) to maximize return on their investment through formulating tailored investment strategy and tools by carefully analyzing investment purpose, preference, time horizon, risk appetite, leveraging opportunities and sustainability.
We offer investment tools both domestically and cross-border basis with optimal mix from the broad asset classes including •Fixed Income Securities including Treasury Instruments •Listed Equities •Mutual Funds •Pre-IPO Placements •Private Equities •Venture Investments •Distressed Asset •Green, Orange and other sustainability linked investments •Commodities •Commercial and Residential Real Estates
Business Transformation Advisory
When our client require specialized advisory services, be it restructuring their balance sheet, or looking for efficient company structures to efficient tax management, or consolidating their businesses, we offer, specialized advisory services linking our different solutions and collaborations.
i) Distressed Asset Management We are the only financial advisor in Bangladesh specialized in Distress Asset Management. We bring in all the stakeholders including sponsors, management, lending institutions, investors, strategic partners and regulators on the table to bring in synergies which not only provides a life line for the distressed business but also extends a masterfully crafted a platform which fosters growth, profitability and sustainability in the future and creates a winning position for all parties involved. CLink adopts flexible and customized restructuring approaches to those debtors who are in temporary liquidity shortage, and reassess the debtors' credit risks, front-loads and eliminates credit risks, redeploys distressed debt assets with operational value and restores the debtors' enterprise credit profile. By carrying out assessments on the price and operational value of the debtors' core assets, the company realizes value discovery and enhancement for these assets and achieves high returns with controlled risks. Our services include •Debt/asset restructuring •Strategic and/or tactical capital infusion •Strategic Realignment and retrofitting of financial model •Governance, management, technical and technological reinforcement by mobilizing resources from home and abroad •Horizontal, forward and backward linkages with strategic partners from domestic and international market •Setting up exit strategy for investors and follow through Our interest remains in high growth and/or high impact industries and ventures. ii) Strategic & Financial Advisory •Assisting in developing comprehensive business, operational and financial planning, investments-to-revenue generation analysis, capital structure and leverage capacity analysis. •Assisting in developing business/project feasibility through: Comprehensive analysis of macro-economic factors, industry outlook, future market dynamics, and internal capacity and readiness. Highlighting the present and potential risk factors and helping enable informed decision making on the viability of underlying opportunities. •Assisting in performing financial and commercial due diligence to identify and assess project/business risks and opportunities and develop tailored strategies. iii) Business Planning and Viability Advisory •Assisting in conceptualizing the project at the initial stage. •Financial structuring, including determining the right mix of financing for the client. •Exploring refinancing alternatives for the clients and evaluating better sources of funds. •Advising appropriate strategies for fundraising for both greenfield and existing projects. iv) Valuation Advisory •Providing a broad range of international standard valuation services to our clients. •Providing independent, objective, consultative and investment grade business valuations for the company. •Providing valuation services in connection with merger and acquisition; new share issuance & sale of existing shares; internal or strategic purpose
Debt Advisory
Our product suite includes Senior Debt, Subordinated Debt, Structured Finance, Sale and Leaseback, Mezzanine Debt and Securitization. Transactions include both local and foreign currency or a mix depending on needs and suitability.
Our product suite includes Senior Debt, Subordinated Debt, Structured Finance, Sale and Leaseback, Mezzanine Debt and Securitization. Transactions include both local and foreign currency or a mix depending on needs and suitability. •Arranging syndicated, club and bilateral debt for clients •Preparing the Information memorandum and other related documents for the borrower. •Designing the optimum financial structure for the company/project which helps to give comfort to both lenders and borrowers. •Assisting the borrowers to get access to diverse groups of financial institutions for securing funding from both local and international markets. •Assisting the borrower in financing negotiations so that funds can be raised at competitive terms. •Assisting borrowers to get regulatory approvals. The CLink team works towards achieving best possible outcome through analyzing, structuring, arranging and executing the best suited products and strategy. Capital planning, acquisition financing strategies, LBO, restructuring the balance sheet and negotiation are all part of our tools. Our highly experienced team helps our clients to create and execute the most suitable financial structure from an independent position. We leverage our strong relationships and market knowledge to identify the best suited institutions, both locally and globally, for our clients. We are able to run a competitive process in order to identify, a financing solution that optimizes the level of debt at lowest possible cost and at most favorable terms and conditions. We closely assist our clients through negotiations at every stage of the transaction with passion and creativity.
Equity Advisory & Capital Markets
We are active in providing advisory services for Iinitial Public Offerings (IPO), Repeat Public Offerings (RPO) Rights Share Issuance, Private Equity Capital, Venture Fund including Seed Capital, Series A & B, Growth Capital, etc.
Clients who require equity financing against new or existing shareholding in a listed, private equity holding or even Startups will find our advisory services highly beneficial as we can originate, structure and manage bespoke solutions. Our services include •Assisting clients to raise equity at different stages of the business. •Preparing detailed financial model and pitch book for the investors. •Working with the client to identify the value proposition of the company/concept and establish it to the potential investors. •Supporting the investee company to get access to diverse group of Investors including VC Funds, PE Funds, high net worth individuals from both local and international market. •Assisting the client in the valuation and deal negotiation.
Corporate Advisory
i) Strategic & Financial Advisory
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Assisting in developing comprehensive business, operational and financial planning, investments-to-revenue generation analysis, capital structure and leverage capacity analysis.
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Assisting in developing business/project feasibility through:
Comprehensive analysis of macro-economic factors, industry outlook, future market dynamics, and internal capacity and readiness. Highlighting the present and potential risk factors and helping enable informed decision making on the viability of underlying opportunities. •Assisting in performing financial and commercial due diligence to identify and assess project/business risks and opportunities and develop tailored strategies. ii) Business Planning and Viability Advisory •Assisting in conceptualizing the project at the initial stage. •Financial structuring, including determining the right mix of financing for the client. •Exploring refinancing alternatives for the clients and evaluating better sources of funds. •Advising appropriate strategies for fundraising for both greenfield and existing projects. iii) Valuation Advisory •Providing a broad range of international standard valuation services to our clients. •Providing independent, objective, consultative and investment grade business valuations for the company. •Providing valuation services in connection with merger and acquisition; new share issuance & sale of existing shares; internal or strategic purpose
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
We offer broad range of services in the M&A Advisory space by taking a transaction from the nascent stage through successful closure
· identify opportunities,
· identify and make contact with possible targets,
· ideal valuation through financial modeling based on industry and market
. optimum structuring, . provide bidding process advice, . participating in negotiations of key terms and covenants, . actively engaging with legal counsel during documentation phase, . regulatory approvals, . closing and even post-closing media engagement. . Where conditions permit, we are also minority principal investors providing further comfort to the buy side. We have experience in advising on both buy-side and sell-side, acquisition and divestment transactions. Our unique approach is to identify opportunities that are not being actively marketed. This benefits our client from non-competitive situations. Our ability to identify and pre-qualify targets on a confidential basis has proven to be key to our successes. We look for synergies, strategic partnership, and value enhancement for all parties and we are selective in accepting transactions that we feel will generate positive value for our clients and provide long term returns.
Investment Solutions and Opportunities
We selectively advice our local and international investors (corporates, FIs, development and multilateral institutions, funds and HNW individuals) to maximize return on their investment through formulating tailored investment strategy and tools by carefully analyzing investment purpose, preference, time horizon, risk appetite, leveraging opportunities and sustainability.
We offer investment tools both domestically and cross-border basis with optimal mix from the broad asset classes including •Fixed Income Securities including Treasury Instruments •Listed Equities •Mutual Funds •Pre-IPO Placements •Private Equities •Venture Investments •Distressed Asset •Green, Orange and other sustainability linked investments •Commodities •Commercial and Residential Real Estates
Business Transformation Advisory
When our client require specialized advisory services, be it restructuring their balance sheet, or looking for efficient company structures to efficient tax management, or consolidating their businesses, we offer, specialized advisory services linking our different solutions and collaborations.
i) Distressed Asset Management We are the only financial advisor in Bangladesh specialized in Distress Asset Management. We bring in all the stakeholders including sponsors, management, lending institutions, investors, strategic partners and regulators on the table to bring in synergies which not only provides a life line for the distressed business but also extends a masterfully crafted a platform which fosters growth, profitability and sustainability in the future and creates a winning position for all parties involved. CLink adopts flexible and customized restructuring approaches to those debtors who are in temporary liquidity shortage, and reassess the debtors' credit risks, front-loads and eliminates credit risks, redeploys distressed debt assets with operational value and restores the debtors' enterprise credit profile. By carrying out assessments on the price and operational value of the debtors' core assets, the company realizes value discovery and enhancement for these assets and achieves high returns with controlled risks. Our services include •Debt/asset restructuring •Strategic and/or tactical capital infusion •Strategic Realignment and retrofitting of financial model •Governance, management, technical and technological reinforcement by mobilizing resources from home and abroad •Horizontal, forward and backward linkages with strategic partners from domestic and international market •Setting up exit strategy for investors and follow through Our interest remains in high growth and/or high impact industries and ventures. ii) Strategic & Financial Advisory •Assisting in developing comprehensive business, operational and financial planning, investments-to-revenue generation analysis, capital structure and leverage capacity analysis. •Assisting in developing business/project feasibility through: Comprehensive analysis of macro-economic factors, industry outlook, future market dynamics, and internal capacity and readiness. Highlighting the present and potential risk factors and helping enable informed decision making on the viability of underlying opportunities. •Assisting in performing financial and commercial due diligence to identify and assess project/business risks and opportunities and develop tailored strategies. iii) Business Planning and Viability Advisory •Assisting in conceptualizing the project at the initial stage. •Financial structuring, including determining the right mix of financing for the client. •Exploring refinancing alternatives for the clients and evaluating better sources of funds. •Advising appropriate strategies for fundraising for both greenfield and existing projects. iv) Valuation Advisory •Providing a broad range of international standard valuation services to our clients. •Providing independent, objective, consultative and investment grade business valuations for the company. •Providing valuation services in connection with merger and acquisition; new share issuance & sale of existing shares; internal or strategic purpose
Debt Advisory
Our product suite includes Senior Debt, Subordinated Debt, Structured Finance, Sale and Leaseback, Mezzanine Debt and Securitization. Transactions include both local and foreign currency or a mix depending on needs and suitability.
Our product suite includes Senior Debt, Subordinated Debt, Structured Finance, Sale and Leaseback, Mezzanine Debt and Securitization. Transactions include both local and foreign currency or a mix depending on needs and suitability. •Arranging syndicated, club and bilateral debt for clients •Preparing the Information memorandum and other related documents for the borrower. •Designing the optimum financial structure for the company/project which helps to give comfort to both lenders and borrowers. •Assisting the borrowers to get access to diverse groups of financial institutions for securing funding from both local and international markets. •Assisting the borrower in financing negotiations so that funds can be raised at competitive terms. •Assisting borrowers to get regulatory approvals. The CLink team works towards achieving best possible outcome through analyzing, structuring, arranging and executing the best suited products and strategy. Capital planning, acquisition financing strategies, LBO, restructuring the balance sheet and negotiation are all part of our tools. Our highly experienced team helps our clients to create and execute the most suitable financial structure from an independent position. We leverage our strong relationships and market knowledge to identify the best suited institutions, both locally and globally, for our clients. We are able to run a competitive process in order to identify, a financing solution that optimizes the level of debt at lowest possible cost and at most favorable terms and conditions. We closely assist our clients through negotiations at every stage of the transaction with passion and creativity.
Equity Advisory & Capital Markets
We are active in providing advisory services for Iinitial Public Offerings (IPO), Repeat Public Offerings (RPO) Rights Share Issuance, Private Equity Capital, Venture Fund including Seed Capital, Series A & B, Growth Capital, etc.
Clients who require equity financing against new or existing shareholding in a listed, private equity holding or even Startups will find our advisory services highly beneficial as we can originate, structure and manage bespoke solutions. Our services include •Assisting clients to raise equity at different stages of the business. •Preparing detailed financial model and pitch book for the investors. •Working with the client to identify the value proposition of the company/concept and establish it to the potential investors. •Supporting the investee company to get access to diverse group of Investors including VC Funds, PE Funds, high net worth individuals from both local and international market. •Assisting the client in the valuation and deal negotiation.
Corporate Advisory
i) Strategic & Financial Advisory
a) Assisting in developing comprehensive business, operational and financial planning, investments-to-revenue generation analysis, capital structure and leverage capacity analysis.
b) Assisting in developing business/project feasibility through: > Comprehensive analysis of macro-economic factors, industry outlook, future market dynamics, and internal capacity and readiness. > Highlighting the present and potential risk factors and helping enable informed decision making on the viability of underlying opportunities. c) Assisting in performing financial and commercial due diligence to identify and assess project/business risks and opportunities and develop tailored strategies. ii) Business Planning and Viability Advisory •Assisting in conceptualizing the project at the initial stage. •Financial structuring, including determining the right mix of financing for the client. •Exploring refinancing alternatives for the clients and evaluating better sources of funds. •Advising appropriate strategies for fundraising for both greenfield and existing projects. iii) Valuation Advisory •Providing a broad range of international standard valuation services to our clients. •Providing independent, objective, consultative and investment grade business valuations for the company. •Providing valuation services in connection with merger and acquisition; new share issuance & sale of existing shares; internal or strategic purpose