Covenant Malaysia | Binding Tomorrow's Idea

about

Covenant was founded by a team of professionals from multidisciplinary background with extensive work experience in the fields of corporate advisory, corporate finance and corporate recovery. The Covenant team has an extensive track-record and experience in delivering comprehensive corporate advisory services to public-listed corporations, multinationals as well as small to medium sized enterprises in Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region.

Our Team

Our team comprises about 20 qualified professionals who have established themselves through efforts and merits, and who strive for results. Our loyal and dedicated staff aims to provide our clients with adequate support and to ensure that each client receives value added personal service.

OUR COMMITMENT

Our team at Covenant is ever ready to offer advice, insights and solutions for your business needs. We will assist you throughout the entire process, to ensure that the ultimate solution is truly the most appropriate for your Business.

OUR APPROACH

Solving corporate matters in today's ever-changing and unpredictable business landscape requires both objectivity and creativity. It calls for the taking of unconventional routes and yet requires the ability to react accurately and in perfect time, to derive innovative, effective and practical solutions.

We work closely with our clients throughout the entire process. We listen to understand their operational and financial situations, and then present advice, insights and ideas. Our key people are hands-on thus ensuring the smooth-running of the projects.

Besides drawing from the internal expertise of our Firm, we have also forged strategic partnerships with several parties so that we can address all aspects of a project in totality, and deliver an integrated solution.

OUR EDGE

We pride ourselves as being a setup with global knowledge and local sensitivities. Our principals' work experience in multinational organisations have equipped them with a sound knowledge of the global marketplace and the management skills of international standards. Yet being a local setup, the Covenant team is sensitive towards the patterns and trends of Asian businesses. As business people ourselves, we believe in giving value for money.

Services

General Corporate Advisory

Independent evaluation of corporate transactions, including acting as Independent Advisers under the Main Market Listing Requirements of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad

Forensic Accounting

Our services include financial fraud investigations, expert witness services, and litigation support. We combine wider sector knowledge with extensive expertise to guide you through the technicalities of financial investigation and dispute resolution. Our experts are highly experienced in providing testimony in court, drawing on accounting, auditing, tax and financial expertise as well as their specific knowledge of court procedures.

Valuation

We are experts in the valuation of businesses, subsidiaries, joint ventures and equity interests as well as specific financial instruments and intellectual property rights. We possess the requisite experiences, expertise and in-dept understanding of establish valuation methodologies to suit the specific needs of our clients. Our valuation services cover various areas including mergers and acquisitions, management or shareholder buyouts, financial reporting, dispute settlement and estate planning.

Takeovers / Privatisation

We provide advisory services to our clients on potential takeovers with the objective of taking over or facilitating the takeover of the management/assets/businesses, reverse takeovers and demergers, as well as privatisations. Our services include devising takeover strategies, advising on regulatory and compliance matters, working out takeover costs and budgets, advising on funding options and post-acquisition consolidation or merger strategies.

Corporate & Debt Restructuring

We provide dedicated advisory, structuring and execution expertise for corporate & debt restructuring of distressed entities. We develop suitable strategies to best achieve a debt structure that matches clients' debt profile to their cash flows to meet future debt payment obligations leading to restoring value and shareholders' confidence in the company. We also develop effective and sustainable capital raising plans by working closely with our clients and assessing various financing alternatives. Our services would commonly involve capital reduction and/or consolidation exercises, debt restructuring schemes and self-rescue regularisation plans under Practice Note 17 of the Main Market Listing Requirements of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

We provide full range of M&A advice for acquisitions, divestments, leveraged buyout, mergers, joint ventures, management buy-outs, etc to listed and non-listed companies. Our services include assisting clients on the identification of targets and potential partners, business valuation, marketing of securities, procurement of funding, formulating the merger or acquisition scheme and supporting in negotiations.

RECEIVERSHIP SERVICES

When a company defaults in its bank borrowings where it has provided a fixed and floating charge over the company's assets, the financial institution usually has the option to appoint a Receiver and/or Manager, to deal and to dispose the company's assets and/or business in order to settle the amount owing to the said financial institution. Further, a Receiver and/or Manager may also be appointed by the Court at the request of a stakeholder to safeguard the financial affairs of a company or its assets. We have the experience to act as Receiver and/or Manager to the Court, lenders or any affected stakeholders who may want to exercise or protect their rights over the affected company's assets.

BUSINESS TURNAROUND SERVICES

A company's fortune depends on various internal and external factors. In this respect, Covenant, an expert in studying and analysing the financial attributes of companies, will assist our clients in resolving their issues or explore the possibilities of restructuring or turning around their troubled businesses. We will also liaise with the lenders, creditors and other professionals to secure their understanding and support for our clients' turnaround exercise, should the need arises.

IPO ADVISORY SERVICES

An established company looking for alternative avenues of raising funds for their future expansion and growth may consider an initial public offering on a suitable securities exchange in Malaysia or overseas. Further, the pioneering shareholders of the company may want to increase or create liquidity for their personal net worth. We, at Covenant, can assist as financial advisors and provide a fair and reasonable opinion for companies looking to consider an initial public offering to meet their objectives as well as those of their shareholders. We also provide constructive strategic advice throughout the various phases, including the coordination of the work of all advisors, evaluating the transaction process and providing solutions and strategies for a successful IPO exercise.

BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES

In today's dynamic business environment that is fuelled by the globalisation of the world economy, establishing a local presence in Malaysia is fast becoming a necessity. We, at Covenant, assist our clients in strategising their businesses and defining business success factors, through a systematic and disciplined approach. By listening to our clients' and focusing on their business issues, Covenant strives to develop a coherent methodology to serve our client's needs in becoming globally competitive. Together, these practices deliver a vast suit of services to steer our clients towards successful ventures.

Comprehensive Financial Consulting

We are a one-stop consulting firm for all your financial needs.

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