Quartus Pathways

The consulting platform that drives much of our strategic and transaction advisory. We work with businesses, governments, and investors to navigate complexity, design strategies, and execute value-creating solutions across sectors.

Our Service Focus and Offerings

Strategic & Policy Advisory

We work with clients to understand and resolve addressable strategic, funding and policy challenges

  • Debt and equity capital-raise
  • Balance sheet restructuring
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Financial due diligence
  • Business valuation
  • Corporate financial modelling

Project Finance

For ring-fenced projects, we provide guidance on economic modelling, deal structuring, and negotiation. We advise on vital aspects of projects to protect promoter and investor value.

  • Market feasibility studies
  • Capital budgeting analysis
  • Proposal development
  • Project finance modelling
  • Deal structuring and negotiations

Corporate Finance

We work with clients on key aspects of corporate finance to raise, invest, optimize and preserve capital. From diagnosis to execution, we deploy first-rate techniques and tools to build value.

  • Debt and equity capital-raise
  • Balance sheet restructuring
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Financial due diligence
  • Business valuation
  • Corporate financial modelling

Strategic & Policy Advisory

Comprehensive advisory services spanning governance, partnerships, and strategic planning

Strategic Studies

At the base of our work is the quest to understand, simplify, and resolve challenges to value creation. From market feasibility and project viability, we adopt the physician's method as we listen, analyze, diagnose and resolve issues for executives and policy makers.

Economic Policy Advisory

We conduct evidence-based diagnosis of economic conditions and policy proposals with a focus on outcomes and impact on markets and the society. We deploy a mix of conceptual and quantitative tools to assess drivers, likely direction and magnitude of change in industries.

Strategy & Organization Design

We produce and combine action insights on multiple issues (opportunities, risks, strength, and threats) to help businesses and not-for-profits craft coherent strategies to unlock, preserve, or harvest value.

Public-Private Partnerships

  • Project pitch to governmental agency
  • Pre-feasibility studies
  • Project development roadmap
  • Deal structure and terms negotiation

Joint-ventures & alliances

  • Joint-venture strategy
  • Proposal to JV partner
  • Project viability analysis
  • Terms & structure of JV deal

Corporate governance

  • Board of directors & board committee charters
  • Board strategy retreats
  • Governance effectiveness reviews

Commercial due diligence

  • Market analysis
  • Industry and competitive reviews
  • Feasibility studies for new products
  • Independent business reviews

Organizational development

  • Purpose, vision & mission statements
  • Company retreats
  • Review of group & corporate structure
  • C-Suite executive search & selection

Strategic business planning

  • Medium-term corporate strategy
  • Corporate business plan
  • Go-to-market strategy

Project Finance Advisory

For ring-fenced projects, we provide guidance on economic modelling, deal structuring, and negotiation. We advise on vital aspects of projects to protect promoter and investor value.

Feasibility studies

We help clients examine the market opportunity and other economic aspects of a proposed project to establish its financial viability and prepare compelling documents for deal partners.

  • Project proposal to key partners
  • Feasibility analysis & project roadmap
  • Economic and development impact analysis

Capital sourcing

We work with promoters and external financiers to source project funding of the appropriate size, tenor, structure, price, and other features tailored to the needs and capacity of each project.

  • Project finance debt sourcing
  • Multilateral & ECA deal advice
  • Screening/negotiation with prospective equity partners

Deal structuring

From crafting win-win equity deals to sculpting efficient project debt, we assist clients to build deal structures that maximize project value and minimize risks.

  • Project capital structure & debt sculpting
  • Equity structure & terms negotiation
  • Equipment financing deals

Project design & risk allocation

We help clients to study and evaluate major economic opportunities at country and industry levels to support strategic decisions on new products and markets.

  • Project economic & commercial structure
  • Project risk allocation matrix
  • Legal and contract structure review

Advanced project finance modelling

Beyond basic capital budgeting analysis, we build detailed financial models to test the strength of project economics and analyze key risks.

  • Economic and technical assumptions
  • Detailed financial forecasts
  • Project risk and sensitivity analysis
  • Analysis of debt capacity

Project documentation

We help clients identify, develop, review, and negotiate key project documents to support effective capital-raise, and negotiation with key parties.

  • Concession or lease agreements
  • Review of financing, development, and other key agreements
  • Project information memorandum

Corporate Finance

We work with clients on key aspects of corporate finance to raise, invest, optimize and preserve capital. From diagnosis to execution, we deploy first-rate techniques and tools to build value.

Debt & equity capital-raise

  • Business case for funding
  • Corporate financial models
  • Sources and uses of funds analysis
  • Information memorandum
  • Negotiation with investors

Financial restructuring

  • Economic & commercial diagnostics
  • Financial performance & health analysis
  • Short-term cash flow forecasts
  • Balance sheet restructuring
  • Asset/sale divestiture plan

Financial planning & analysis

  • Financial planning and analysis
  • Performance reporting dashboards
  • Performance improvement

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Buy-side and sell-side valuations
  • Due diligence analysis
  • Post-acquisition strategy
  • Advanced merger/acquisition model
  • Acquisition funding

Advanced corporate modelling

  • Assumption testing & sensitization
  • Scenario analysis
  • Equity valuation analysis

Transaction due diligence

We help acquirers to assess both the economic and financial health of target acquisitions with a focus on quality of earnings, net assets, and other pertinent financial or risk issues.

    Selected Strategic Advisory Engagements

    Real-world applications of our strategic advisory and transaction consulting expertise across diverse sectors

    State-Owned Microfinance Bank

    Strategy review and medium-term strategy development

    Reviewed macro-economic and industry context to identify new addressable challenges and develop coherent strategic actions for sustainable growth and market expansion.

    Leading Food Manufacturing Company

    Economic feasibility study for brownfield free trade zones conversion

    Reviewed applicable regulations, conducted feasibility studies for multiple facility locations including cost-benefit analysis with detailed economic models.

    Sustainable Packaging Solutions Company

    Market study for biodegradable food packaging solutions

    Conducted comprehensive market study to establish and quantify effective demand, assessed investment structure and viability for sustainable packaging solutions.

    National Payment System Infrastructure

    Domestic card payment system economic analysis

    Reviewed global market context, proposed domesticated operating model with comprehensive economic and financial analysis for payment system optimization.

    Corporate Restructuring Project

    Financial restructuring and business turnaround advisory

    Led comprehensive diagnostic review, developed restructuring strategy, and provided transaction advisory services for successful corporate turnaround.

    Infrastructure Development Partnership

    Public-private partnership structuring for major infrastructure project

    Structured innovative PPP framework, conducted feasibility analysis, and provided transaction advisory services for multi-billion naira infrastructure development.

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