Re-structuring & Corporate Finance

Raffles restructures and reorganizes clients' assets to internationalize them in favourable jurisdictions. Raffles has successfully formulated tailor-made restructuring strategies and sourced M&A partners or vehicles in Singapore for its Chinese clients in the hospitality, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Raffles has also helped these companies go public outside China via reverse takeovers and joint ventures. This service transforms clients' businesses from local private entities into companies listed on respectable global markets.

Fund Investment Advisory

Raffles experience and expertise in corporate finance and investments in ventures that are prime candidates for IPO can give traditional fund managers a hands-on investment perspective. Raffles believes in exits, via IPO, that take between 12-18 months to be completed. Raffles is retained by funds in Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong as their investment advisor and oversight governor.

Representative Examination, Assessment & Preparation

Raffles key growth and expansion strategy is to have productive representatives in key provinces and cities across Asia, starting from China. To ensure the province representatives can effectively deliver their service to clients, they are prepared and assessed via an intensive training program and on-the-job coaching before they sit for their appointment examination. Raffles charge for rendering such services to the representatives and co-share the income generated by them. Raffles goal is to secure at least 10 representatives each year with each representative targeted to deliver net profit of S$1 million a year. As of now, no investment banking service providers are willing to train “outsiders” to do their business and allow them to leverage on their collective expertise, experience and brand image. Raffles is ready, willing and able to do so for them.

IPO & International Fund Raising

Raffles provides firms who are seeking public listing on major stock exchanges in the US, Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore with IPO advisory, arrangement and anchoring-investors services. Raffles has helped its Chinese clients in the hospitality, food & beverage and pharmaceutical industries with listing preparation, appointment and verification of public listing matters and coordinating the work of the accountants, auditors, lawyers, bankers, independent experts, corner-stone investors, media, valuers and various stakeholders, as well as investor relations counselling. Raffles has led its clients to significant valuation improvements

Bonds, Options, Shares, Structured Notes

As part of Raffles IPO and corporate finance advisory services, clients can work closely with Raffles to issue bonds, options, shares, structured notes on the Japanese and European exchanges. Raffles helps IPO candidates to issue bonds and notes that can be converted with the company shares once publicly listed. Raffles can facilitate the loan redemption with options for shares. This spares the borrowers the agony of repaying the principal sum and interests. Raffles is working with various parties to issue such products in digital format via the issuance of electronic depository receipt.