About Us

Our Story

Sivafinance is an investment banking enterprise with a niche leadership inception in Financial ecosystem. Since our in 2012, we have brought in a new approach to real estate financing in the country.

Headquartered in Kenya we have regional offices in Ghana,Nigeria,South Africa.

Our approach is driven by our senior management, a group of senior ex-bankers and professionals having an aggregate experience of more than five decades in project finance, business banking and investment advisory.

Our goal has always been to be the first choice advisors for anyone seeking project capital in India. To this end, our exclusive focus is to offer our clients a full spectrum of investment banking services including capital raising, debt syndication, deal structuring, corporate lease financing, working capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and research advisory.

Our experience and capabilities in raising capital for real estate and infrastructure companies is the hallmark of our success. We have assisted our clients raise over USD 12M + in the last five years of our operations. In all the transactions we have executed till now, we have worked on independent mandates and have had a success rate of more than 85%.

Sivafinance was founded by Dr Phil Griffin a senior corporate and investment banker. He is an IIM-B alumnus and FCA.
We are well networked with the top management teams in almost all financial institutions in the country including Banks, NBFCs and Equity Funds.

Some Milestones We Crossed

Founded

Feb 2012
• The seeds were sown in a small office in Nairobi,Kenya

Spreading Wings

Dec 2016
• Moved to owned office
• Reached new geographies
• Covered 15 more lending institutions
• Team size doubled
• Opened regional offices in Ghana and Nigeria

First 1000 Crores

Apr 2015
• Achieved 5m usd of disbursement
• Team size increased to 8

Raising The Bar

Mar 2018
• Touched 9m Usd

Some Marquee Transactions

Raising The Bar Every Moment

Client: One of the top 5 developers in Kenya
Deal Size: ~ USD 900,000

Type of Financing: Structured debt
Brief: The client had an existing debt from the FIs PE firms at higher cost. The client was seeking an exit for them and an additional debt with extended moratorium for completion of construction of the projects. We were able to secure a stretched amount for the client at the best terms. We competed with an international investment bank for this transaction.

Client: Category A+ developer in NigeriaDeal Size: ~ USD 1m

Type of Financing: Lease Rental Discounting
Brief: The client had an existing LRD running on one of the top performing malls in the country. We reviewed the cashflows and all the lease agreements for the client, identified the institutions and negotiated hard on all the terms including the amount and the rate of interest. We were able to clinch this deal amidst heavy competition from foreign banks and IPCs

Client: One of the top 5 developers in Ghana
Deal Size: ~ USD 750,000

Type of Financing: Structured debt
Brief: We arranged the structured debt over three projects of the developer in two different transactions from the same financial institution. This was a complex transaction wherein there was a mix of refinance, take out, statutory and acquisition payment and construction finance.

Client: Category A developer in South Africa Deal Size: ~ USD 950,000

Type of Financing: - Land Financing
Brief: This was a land financing transaction wherein the existing developer was given an exit from a JV land. The financing was given towards settling the consideration and towards future development and construction. There were complex legal and structuring challenges which were resolved in this deal

Client: Category A developer in Egypt Deal Size: ~ 2.1m USD.

Type of Financing: Receivables Funding and Construction Finance
Brief: We arranged a syndicated debt for the client’s requirement over two projects from two financial institutions. This transaction was done at very competitive rates within stringent timelines as sought by the customer.

Client: A prominent Redeveloper in South Africa Deal Size: ~ 2.8m USD

Type of Financing: Construction Finance
Brief: The client was seeking a longer duration of loan for his ongoing residential project. We got the client a stretched moratorium along with a further top up through another institution for taking care of approvals and construction costs.

Client: Category A developer in Ghana Deal Size: ~ 1m USD.

Type of Financing: Structured debt
Brief: The client was seeking a refinance opportunity to give exit to an NBFC and needed additional amount for construction of the security on offer and some amount for general corporate purpose. We handled the end to end execution of transaction with ease and got them the desired amount at the best possible terms.

Client: One of the top 3 developers in Kenya Deal Size: ~ 1.9M USD

Type of Financing: - Construction Finance
Brief: We helped the client get an initial finance at the early stage of the project. With sustained service to the client in terms of iterated analysis of financials and cashflows, we have been able to arrange multiple top ups from the same institution.