Carefully selecting investment opportunities
that provide business scalability and value creation.
The company was founded out of the need to provide an investment platform for companies looking for strategic and operationally experienced empowerment partners who can add value and growth to investee companies.
The company was founded out of the need to provide an investment platform for companies looking for strategic and operationally experienced empowerment partners who can add value and growth to investee companies.
We will carefully select investment opportunities that provide business scalability and value creation. We will support transformation of the investee companies to ensure good corporate citizenship. Our aim will be to deliver industry leading returns for our shareholders. We shall be guided in these partnerships by values and belief systems founded on the genuine desire to broaden meaningful participation in the economy.
Professionalism, Integrity, Mutual Respect. We will demonstrate our own values most meaningfully in the way we treat each other and by the example we set for one another. In all our interactions with our clients, business associations and colleagues, we will do things with professionalism, integrity and mutual respect.
We will always be ready, working with our partners to get our “hands dirty” and be involved, contributing ideas on strategic issues, operations, business development. We believe our hands-on approach will contribute to true transformation, empowerment and mutual growth between ourselves and our clients.
TigerWit share equity is held by its Founders, in line with its hands-on philosophy. The diversity of the people in the organisation in terms of their cultures, values and beliefs, makes the company a truly South African company. Aware that the organisation owes its success to the resourcefulness of its staff, we acknowledge that our greatest assets are indeed the people who work together in the company to create value for all stakeholders. For this we will ensure that the value created in the company is shared with the employees and the chosen communities.
TigerWit believes in complying and promoting all related internationally accepted Codes of Conduct and Practice. The company believes that a broad spectrum of South Africans ought to benefit from empowerment, and that ownership alone does not translate into empowerment. In the words of one of the founders, “It’s incumbent on all of us to bring out the best in people. No person is born a failure or a success – we are all shaped by our environment”. It is for this reason that TigerWit places a lot of importance on training and development.
This company is made up of people who genuinely share a common vision of a better life for all South Africans through development of people. The team that leads the company believes and understands the value of partnerships based on a common set of values.
Over the years the founding team has established strong networks both in the Public and Private sectors. We strongly believe business is about relationships and our people have strong and “pure ethical” business relationships that can enhance the growth prospects of the company.
Our team has served in various institutions successfully and with integrity, they all have a culture of working smart to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Our team believes in “sweat capital” and in the “good intent” of major companies to use their Enterprise Development Capital and Empowerment philosophies to help the company grow.
Our aim is to maintain and grow a significant portfolio of equity interests in a spread of industrial, services, retail, IT, financial and related businesses with demonstrated sound growth records, potential for growth and business scalability. These investments must be cash generative and earn above industry average returns on capital over a period. Our interests in unlisted companies will normally be large minority holdings with reasonable interests held by management and/or family shareholders with who we engage as partners. We will also hold interests in listed companies where we are represented on the Boards and can play an active role in the further development of the listed entity. We may hold interests that are small in percentage term, but where we are able to influence through Board representation or shareholder agreements. We aim to participate in good businesses with first-class management. Our overall business approach is that of a diversified holding company
- Requirement of strong BEE partners
- Availability of a significant equity share
- Employment of reasonable gearing
- Co-investment with selective investors and management
- Cash generative and profitable businesses
- Opportunity to invest for growth, either organically or acquisitively or both.
The team has more than 100 years combined relevant experience in Corporate Finance activities and has been involved in many corporate finance transactions in South Africa. The team provides innovative corporate advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, BEE transactions, capital raising, both equity and debt, valuations, listings, delistings and corporate restructures.
We offer the following: . Identify M&A targets
- Formulate an approach strategy, including initial views on valuation, structuring and transaction parameters
- Recommending terms and pricing
- Approaching targets and assisting clients in negotiations, advising on strategy, tactics and structuring of the transaction
- Developing a framework for and assisting with due diligence
- Project managing and liaising with other professionals, experts and service providers . Identify and approach potential providers of capital, debt or equity funding
- Liaising with and obtaining opinions and formal rulings from regulators
- Ensuring the successful and timely closure of the transaction.
We offer the following:
- Valuations and preparations of a transaction memorandum
- Identification and securing of potential buyers and investors
- Facilitating negotiations and managing the bidding process, ensuring optimal value realisation for our clients
- Managing the transition for a successful close.
- Buy and Sell Advisory
- Structuring support
- Transactional support
- Valuations
- Acquisitions/mergers
- BEE/employee share incentive schemes
- Disposal/business reorganisations
- Tax consolidations and other tax considerations
- Support of the carrying values of investments and intangible assets . Shareholder disputes
- Management buyouts
The following constitute the leadership and Directors of the company:
Bheki is a Director of the company and has over 30 years of corporate experience in a wide variety of fields, including financial services, aviation, fleet management, hospitality and leisure, petroleum, media and entertainment, manufacturing and transport. He was the first black Marketing Manager at Sanlam in the early 1990s when Sanlam embarked on an aggressive strategy to extend their product offering to the black market. Bheki has first-hand experience in opening the “traditional markets”. Bheki’s leadership roles have ranged from being the founding managing director of Africa Oil (Pty) Ltd, the first black-owned and managed oil company in South Africa, to being CEO of entertainment company Sterkinekor, and CEO of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Services (Pty) Ltd, to name a few. He has served on a number of company boards, including Fleet Africa (Pty) Ltd, Primedia Ltd, Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Ltd, African Bank Investments Ltd and African Bank Limited, Supergroup Ltd, Sabvest Ltd and Air Traffic and Navigation Services, Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium where he was Chairman, a member of the Transformation Committee and the Audit Committee. He currently serves on the Board of Sabvest where he is Deputy Chairman, a member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee. He is also Chairman of Flow Communications.
Stef is a Corporate Finance Specialist with a wealth of experience in Stef’s most recent position was as Group Commercial Executive of a listed company, where he was part of Exco and the Investment Committee. Prior to that he was a Financial Director of a listed construction company, Corporate Finance Executive of a listed Black-owned Investment Bank, and also Head of Equity Markets Advisory for a big four audit firm. Stef has gained experience across a wide range of industries, most significantly in FMCG manufacturing, mining, construction and financial services and has worked with large local corporates, government as well as international investors. He currently serves on the JSE AltX Advisory Committee.
Mothomang is the Founding Member and Chairman of TEACH SA. She serves on the Boards of Tshikululu, the Urology Hospital and some of their sub-committees. She has worked as a Public Health Practitioner, she teaches and consults in areas of Health and Wellness. She is the Founder of Spiral Aloe Lifestyle Clinics. She was Head of the Dialogue Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation for about 5 years, worked for the UNDP, Abt and Associates. Mothomang is a qualified Medical Doctor from the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Reuben is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has over 20 years corporate and business experience which includes managerial and executive roles in listed companies such as Telkom. Reuben is a serial entrepreneur and he started and runs the Best Group of companies as its Founder and Executive Chairman. The Group focuses on Manufacturing, Financial Services, Property Management, Fleet Management and Food Distribution. Reuben is the Current Africa Region- Learning Officer for YPO and immediate past Chairman of YPO Pretoria Chapter, Deputy Chairman of the Pretoria Business Chapter, Secretariat of Business Unity South Africa and an active member of Ivest Africa.
Number 2 Rosebank road,
Bunkheld, Johannesburg
2196