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These are interesting times for Private Equity (PE) Houses or investors. Fundraising has become a matter of demonstrable management skills and added value with returns. Investors are reviewing their private equity allocations and competition for quality, secure deals is intense. Even with the recent gradual increase in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, the scope for the PE House to fund aggressively is diminishing due to the flood of investment opportunities and expectations from their investors. Quality not quantity is the new hard approach taken.
In today's market a new focus on building value and managing performance from existing established companies emerges. PE Houses are likely to need a wider range of skills at their disposal than is necessary purely to understand deals. Therefore, the services of AVG clients traditionally expect from us have broadened beyond the deal and taken on a longer-term context. AVG is now taking one of the leading positions in offering a combined approach to helping clients with their strategic placing, deal structure and AVG's third party financial independent support for companies seeking funding.
AVG supplies a broad range of skills, comprising some of the best and most experienced PE advisers, corporate finance, transaction and commercial due diligence including tax. AVG has the skills PE Houses look for to help support them in their decisions for funding your company.

CAPITAL PROTECTION

The purpose
The purpose of capital protection is to protect the PE Houses (investor's) position against loss in the event of your company failure, PE Houses or investor's investment in your company. It's all about protecting the investors downside risk ensuring losses can be recovered.
Capital protection can be used for many types of companies seeking investment.
Another way the guarantee can be used is to ensure a return of profit.
The Capital guarantee can be tailored to suit varying company requirements. A capital guarantee will dramatically increase your company's visibility within the investment community, which in turn will be reflected in the way investors value your stock, through the fund raising and investment life cycles.

Fundraising
In today's market, money takes longer to raise and failure is always a concern. There is less willingness to invest in initial fundraising.
In this environment, PE Houses, investors will take into account a range of factors in evaluating the opportunity:

• The track record;
• The credibility of the team;
• How safe is the investment;
• Industry experience and ability to add value;
• The way tax structures match their individual complex needs;
• The clarity and substance of the key messages presented;

AVG exploits interviews, with industry comparisons and performance data to help pinpoint the key issues for PE Houses. Our advice can be supported by factual comparisons with competitors showing your increased strengths by the Capital Guarantee. Our key strength is in helping build and implement plans of action that can actually make a difference; we put our own money on the line with our Capital Guarantee for investors and your company.
Increasingly we see the demand for more transparent presentation of investment performance. Looking to contract with a range of participants, starting with existing investors for follow-on funds, PE houses can draw investors from the investment community. Capital returned in a timely manner and tax considerations will be of paramount importance to these PE Houses and you need advisers with the reach and knowledge to give you some of the most appealing structures. In these pressured times we can help your company achieve funding goals by using AVG's ability for support to the PE House for the Capital Guarantee and safer structured returns.

The advantages of partnering with AVG
May allow your company once approved to raise funds from institutions such as Pension Funds or PE houses that may be able to invest in your company because of the Capital Guarantee, which normally as a IPO, private company or non listed company would not be allowed under the operating guidelines for institutions.

AVG

• Provides investor confidence in violate markets or in perceived higher risk sectors.
• Provides wider market for your company for investors that are risk adverse.
• It removes the downside risk for the investor while still allowing the investor to participate fully in any upside gain.
• Provides the company or the PE House with future cash injection or special dividend as the capital Guarantee matures.

Investment and deals
Clarity of strategic industry focus and targeted deal size are key to building relationships in the investment community. How effectively clients present to the market, and the strength of their contacts will drive their deal. To help deliver this AVG provides a team that suits the PE house needs based on individuals with the appropriate deal experience.

AVG understands business funding
In a climate where the pressure to achieve good returns is high, due diligence and third party support can be a vital tool for achieving a successful funding and AVG can support this again with a guarantee to close the deal.

Making the most of PE House interviews
Where the relationship between the PE House and the company is paramount (as they have the money to invest whole or in part) AVG can supply professionals on your companies behalf dealing one on one with the PE Houses or investor groups in order to enhance your professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness for the fundraising of your company.
With AVG there needs to be an approach developed which focuses on what matters for the PE Houses and investors to make their choice in investing in your company instead of others.

Only serious players are taken seriously.

AVG is a one of a kind specialist. As stated AVG places its own money on the line to guarantee your investor/s once you are accepted and funds are raised.

To this end with the initial applications we receive a retainer whilst reviewing you needs including meeting you and your team and understanding your business goals and funding requirements.

We have to have faith in you your team and your business. This takes serious time and effort on our side. We also will explain how we will structure the investor capital guarantee and value ads for your company.

AVG always have our team including legal and independent professional sector experts provide input as per our approval process. This can take as little as 15 to 20 days on most level one applications to become an approved AVG investor capital guaranteed company.
(Note we only proceed with one project at a time so we pay full attention to our business and yours of making the right decisions. This may however cause a timing issue that we both may have to plan ahead and deal with.)