About the firm
A firm built by the client
We are engaged by decision makers who need an independent view on something they are about to commit to. Our work is transactional. Our relationships are not.
Professional Memberships
- Associate Member, CFA Institute
- Associate Member, South African Institute of Financial Markets (SAIFM)
Leadership
Mohammed Saloojee
Mohammed has spent more than twenty years across corporate finance, banking, treasury and management consulting. For a decade of that period he was also building two businesses of his own, where he met most of the problems his clients now bring to him.
He has led due diligence on transactions exceeding R5 billion in cumulative value. Eight debt and equity capital transactions have been executed under his direction for large development finance institutions and private equity funds. He has also advised multinational financial institutions. That experience set a standard he has carried into every mandate since, whatever the size of the business in front of him.
Alongside the advisory career he has closed more than thirty SME transactions through Saloterra Financial and more than doubled revenue at a manufacturing business in which he holds an active interest. That combination matters. Advice lands differently when it comes from someone who has bought, built and scaled businesses himself.
How we work
Three things we will not trade away
A few principles hold this firm together. They are not decorative. They determine how we perform and, rather more tellingly, how we behave when nobody is watching.
Integrity first and always
Most of what a client pays us for is judgement. Judgement is worth little if it is not honest. Part of the job is saying the unwelcome thing while it is still early enough to be useful.
Service worth being judged on
The person you meet at the outset is the person who does the sign off. There is no junior team behind a curtain learning your business at your expense. We take on a small number of mandates at a time for that reason.
Client interests are ours
We give advice that serves the client even where it costs us. Anything confidential stays between the parties who need it, which in a sensitive environment is worth more than the advice itself.
Who we work with
Three kinds of client, one standard of work
Corporates come to us for strategy work and for enterprise and supplier development programmes where specialist skills are needed. Boards and executive teams bring us in for turnarounds, operating model work and governance frameworks. We also act for development finance institutions and private equity funds on the due diligence and capital work behind their investments.
Most of our mandates begin with a conversation that has nothing to do with a fee. Several have run for years and across more than one transaction.
Two decades of transaction experience sits behind the firm, gathered in banking, in treasury and in management consulting. A decade of that was spent building two businesses that had to be funded, fixed and grown. The questions we ask in a due diligence room are the questions we have had asked of us.
We also intend to leave a socially responsible footprint in the way we do business. In a market where capital reaches some businesses easily and others hardly at all, that is not a footnote. It is part of why the firm exists.