A boutique Investment Banking Advisory Firm Arkstons Advisory Ltd., rendering seamless investment banking advisory services to clients seeking in-depth strategic, investing, and financial expertise.
Arkstons Advisory Firm strives to provide a broad spectrum of strategic advisory solutions in due diligence, capital raising, equity offerings, debt syndications, and derivatives. Be it sell-side, buy-side, corporate restructuring, JV structuring or ad-hoc Consultancy engagements, the Firm ensures exceptional services through its specialized Investment Banking solutions from day one to closure.
A KeyNote Person
A diligent personality, Binesh Balan is the Founder and Executive Director at Arkstons Advisory Ltd. Carrying rich experience of over a decade working in the Investment Banking industry; he brings in exemplary expertise across diversified areas including M&A, private equity & venture capital deals, and project finance. He specializes in equity and debt syndication fund raising assignments, market entry strategies; JV’s, strategic tie-ups, and management consultancy specialized in GCC, Asian, and European markets. He is closely associated with leading Family Offices, Business groups, HNIs, Venture Capital Funds and Private Equity Funds in the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Asia. He executes business operations between the countries of GCC, Europe and India.
More about Arkstons
With offices in London and Bahrain, Arkstons Advisory was founded in the year 2016. It has its major operation centers in Middle East, Western Europe, and South East Asia.
Arkstons diversified structure specializes in cross-border M&A, capital raise advisory, joint venture advisory across major sectors and geographies. It also includes Manufacturing, Automobile, Industrial, Consumer Products, Real Estate, Retail, Pharmaceutical, and Healthcare among others. Till date, the Firm has served over more than fifty clients in around more than thirty countries. It has an inclination towards working with eminent Firms having a reputed stature.
“In a booming deal market, many corporates spend a vast amount of their time answering ‘if’ deals need to be initiated, whereas the focus should be on ‘when’ and ‘how’ to initiate and execute those deals to accelerate growth and create maximum sustainable value.” says Binesh Balan.
Optimal Services
Holding strategic global partnership with a number of advisory Firms, the Firm is giving its clients an easy access to foreign capital markets. With an exclusive network of international investors, the Firm is helping its clients to achieve their strategic intent of growth, expansion, cash flow generation, and profit maximization.
The Firm is highly focused and committed to integrate effective measures for developing customized growth strategies to help clients capitalize from complex challenges. Its agility, adaptability, and creativity in an emerging business landscape will ensure success in spanning sectors such as corporate finance, debt advisory, capital-rising, corporate restructure, and M&A transactions.
Turning Challenges into Opportunities
In an era of budding boutique advisors, surpassing the competition and creating a niche was an initial major challenge for the Firm. So, it constantly strives to position itself uniquely in a globalized market, to stay ahead, and stand out from the rest.
Another major challenge was securing interesting deals and operating in the global context, where markets are more interconnected due to the increasing globalization of the M&A sector in general, which is the core focus service among other Investment Banking advisory services.
The Firm is delivering its insights, expertise, and experience to its clients through each phase of the M&A process. The Firm selects its deals after proper due diligence and prefers in quality over quantity. It is investing in developing a rich human capital to identify challenges and harness them to opportunities by using local and global knowledge to deliver customized strategies suited for each client in such a highly competitive landscape.
Over the years, the Firm has performed very well and achieved lots of success. For its exceptional performance and excellence, the Firm had awarded at the “Asian Arab Awards 2019”, held in the first quarter of 2019, organised by Asian Arab Chambers of Commerce (AACC) in association with the Indian Economic Trade Organisation (IETO). Also, Arkstons Advisory working in conjunction with its subsidiary, has recently been conferred with the “Outstanding Debt and Equity Firm of the Year 2019 ”.
The Firm has faced numerous other challenges till date. But, what kept it going is its constant focus on turning those challenges into capitalizing opportunities. Taking the right step at the right time can make a world of difference and position the Firm uniquely in a globalized world.
Giving back to Society
Arkstons Advisory works with a vision of giving back to the society by covering and creating opportunities of M&A and strategic tie-ups with a shared purpose of social innovation and business growth. It believes that greater commitment towards making a difference can often lead to greater returns on investment.
Delivering scalable investment strategies by bringing together dynamic business leaders and forward thinking investors can generate economic returns with positive and measurable social outcomes. It is also planning tie-ups with various start-ups ecosystems globally, to serve its clients even better.
Currently, Firms are globally realizing that inorganic growth is the way ahead. With a relatively high level of market concentration of business startups, corporates are downsizing or realigning their operations by spurring consolidations to focus on profitability, core business areas, and operational efficiency rather than market share. The global economy has witnessed a gradual, but steady growth over the recent years in terms of value from global M&A transactions.
Exciting Future
Arkstons Advisory is planning to incorporate its expertise with customized digital based solutions to deal with complexities and ensuring smoother implementation and execution. It is embracing the advanced technology solutions which can reduce the cost and time and improve global collaborations and accelerate deal making and transactions.
The Firm believes that embracing the digital revolution hands down is the way forward. Thus, it is going digital which can improve global collaborations, deliver data-driven insights, reduce costs, time and streamline the processes in a detail life cycle.
Arkstons Advisory: Boosting Business Performance
