Am Capital Partners
AM | Capital presents itself as an independent, management-owned investment-banking and corporate-finance boutique based in Paris and dedicated to Africa and the Middle East. Its stated services include buy-side, sell-side, and merger mandates, corporate finance and strategic advisory, financing solutions, and sovereign advisory.
What stands out about Am Capital Partners
AM | Capital publicly presents a cross-border M&A and corporate-finance advisory practice focused on Africa and the Middle East. Its references include acquisition and minority- and majority-stake sale mandates, while the official homepage does not publish specific regulatory registration, minimum transaction-size, or client-size criteria.[1][3]
What does Am Capital Partners do?
AM | Capital describes itself as a Paris-based, independent and management-owned corporate-finance and investment-banking boutique dedicated to Africa and the Middle East. Its official site identifies Joël Krief and AbdelNor Chehlaoui as founding partners.
The firm publicly describes an advisory model covering cross-border M&A, corporate finance and strategic advisory, financing solutions, and sovereign advisory. It states that it has closed more than 60 transactions since inception, that its two founding partners have completed more than 250 transactions in combination, and that it has structured and financed 30+ projects.[1]
AM | Capital states that it advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including buy-side, sell-side, and merger mandates.
Its stated corporate-finance and strategic-advisory services include fairness opinions, valuations, asset allocation, governance-related transactions, and pre-IPO advice. The firm also states that it advises on capital structuring, share issues, borrowings, company ratings, bonds, private placements, and structured-finance instruments. Its sovereign-advisory offering concerns public-sector financial issues and partnerships involving private-sector and international companies.[1]
Owners comparing advisory firms can also review Auxo’s M&A advisor vs. business broker vs. investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and sell-side advisor evaluation framework.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Am Capital Partners?
For an owner considering a sale or strategic transaction, AM | Capital publicly presents sell-side M&A capability, cross-border advisory, and coverage across Africa and the Middle East and multiple listed sectors. Its disclosed references include sales of majority and minority stakes as well as acquisition mandates.
An owner evaluating an engagement should confirm the legal entity that would sign the mandate, applicable regulatory or professional authorizations, proposed fee and expense terms, conflicts procedures, the proposed team’s recent country and sector experience, the buyer and investor universe to be approached, confidentiality protections, valuation methodology, process timetable, diligence workplan, and management-support expectations.[1]
Which legal entity would sign the engagement, and what regulatory or professional authorizations apply
What retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination terms would apply
Which comparable transactions has the proposed team completed in the seller's country and sector during the last three years
What size transactions and clients does Am Capital Partners focus on?
The official site lists agroindustry, financial services, services and distribution, TMT, utilities and infrastructure, natural resources, logistics, and oil and gas as sectors covered by AM | Capital.[1]
- In 2019, the official references archive lists AM | Capital as sole financial advisor to COSMOS for the acquisition of VIBE Côte d’Ivoire and VIBE Sénégal from Lagardère.
- In 2019, the archive lists AM | Capital as sole financial advisor to Abacus for the sale of a 65% equity stake to Carlyle Private Equity.
- In 2018, the archive lists AM | Capital as sole financial advisor to Comete Engineering for the sale of a controlling stake to RINA.
- In 2018, the archive lists AM | Capital as sole financial advisor to Sky Holding for the sale of a 34% equity stake in Life TV to M6 Group / RTL Group.
- A current official post by co-founder Joël Krief identifies AM | Capital as exclusive financial advisor on the sale of EAE, a Moroccan mineral-water bottler and distributor, to Mutandis.
The official references archive does not publish consideration amounts or complete closing terms for most listed mandates.[1][2]
AM | Capital publicly describes buy-side, sell-side, and merger mandates, with a cross-border focus. Its stated advisory work also extends to corporate finance, financing solutions, and sovereign advisory.
The listed references generally do not disclose consideration amounts or complete closing terms.[1]
What does Am Capital Partners publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The official homepage does not state a legal-entity registration number, regulator registration, broker-dealer authorization, investment-adviser status, or other specific regulatory license for AM | Capital. The same official homepage does not publish a minimum transaction size, enterprise-value range, revenue threshold, EBITDA threshold, or other client-size criterion.
The official references archive displays transaction descriptions but does not publish consideration amounts or complete closing terms for most of the listed mandates.[1]
AM | Capital describes itself as an independent, management-owned investment-banking and corporate-finance boutique based in Paris.
The official homepage does not state a legal-entity registration number, regulator registration, broker-dealer authorization, investment-adviser status, or other specific regulatory license for AM | Capital. The applicable legal entity and authorizations should therefore be confirmed directly when evaluating an engagement.[1]
The official references archive presents dated transaction descriptions and identifies AM | Capital’s role on selected mandates. A current official post by co-founder Joël Krief also describes the firm as exclusive financial advisor on the sale of EAE to Mutandis.
The transaction descriptions generally do not publish consideration amounts or complete closing terms, so those details should be requested for any comparable mandate being assessed.[1][2]
Questions to ask before hiring Am Capital Partners
Which legal entity would sign the engagement, and what regulatory or professional authorizations apply?
What retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination terms would apply?
Which comparable transactions has the proposed team completed in the seller's country and sector during the last three years?
What buyer and investor universe would be contacted, and how would confidentiality be protected?
What valuation methodology, process timetable, diligence workplan, and management-support expectations would apply?
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