About Us
Antswisa Transaction Advisory Services is a boutique consultancy firm that helps South Africa and other Africa markets most ambitious change makers define the future.
Our Corporate Finance and Strategy Advisory focus on our clients’ most critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology, transformation, digital, advanced analytics, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and sustainability across all industries and geographies.
We work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster and more enduring outcomes.
Antswisa is a Tsonga cultural name meaning continuously improving and innovation. Antswisa is a sign of sophistication, Vision, Boldness, untainted research, Collaboration, Tenacious and it possess vitality.
This is where aspiration meets innovation, candour fuels collaboration and impossible surrenders to opportunity.
We champion the bold to achieve the extraordinary.
We help our clients maximise the return on their deals and manage associated risks. Our services add value by:
- Assessing the target business relative to the economic and operational objectives of our client, and the assumptions underpinning the deal.
- Assessing the basis of the transaction and providing our clients with analyses that support their negotiations. We cover areas such as issues affecting pricing, sustainability and synergies.
- Assessing risk factors and providing guidance on the way the deal should be structured.
- We work with you to leverage on due diligence findings in the deal negotiations.
Antswisa Transaction Advisory Services believes that there is more pressure than ever before to ensure deals deliver lasting results for stakeholders. We see transactions through our client’s lens, whether they are the investor or investee, and are focused on helping them identify, evaluate and successfully implement their growth strategies in today’s complex business landscape.
We provide a range of highly tailored advisory services that span the transaction lifecycle, helping you focus on the key questions at every critical stage.
- Does this deal align to my strategic business objectives?
- Will this deal help me respond to market and competitor dynamics?
- What are the risks and opportunities that will affect value and my negotiating position?
- How do I maximize synergies and add value?
- Are there any reporting, accounting and tax structure ramifications of the transaction?
We believe that bold steps define the future. That the ambition to lead requires courageous, more integrated strengths and continuous adaptability. And that reflection and ethicalness are foundations of legacy.
Vision
To be leaders in helping our clients create positive change and improving competiveness.
Mission
To help our customers make peculiar, lasting, and fundamental improvements in their performance and to build a caring firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.
- We collaborate with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
- To succeed, organizations must reflectively blend digital and human capabilities.
- We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization to deliver results that help our clients thrive, and improving communities inspired by shared growth.
Capital Markets Advisory
How can your business benefit?
Companies are looking for independent advice and a higher level of support as they approach the capital markets to raise investments and finance.
Our capital markets advisory team provides:
- Independent and objective advice on critical capital market judgments you will have to make throughout the IPO process – Underwriter selection and structure, research analyst community, equity story, valuation comparatives, investment thesis and investor targeting
- An integrated approach to help prepare you for the IPO market, combining industry and sector experience with technical preparation and readiness
- Equity capital markets experience across multiple sectors and verticals
- Practical advice on the IPO process, facilitating the transaction to reduce risks
- Insights on recent trends in the equity capital markets.
Using the strength of our expertise, our experience, and particularly our knowledge of the public sector, we trade, manage, invest and advise, with a view to bringing about significant long-term change for our client partners, and for our country
Antswisa Transaction Advisory Services upholds excellence and integrity in handling all our clients’ business deals. We can help your business maximise the benefits of its deals, and to manage risk effectively. We can assist your business with due diligence and other advisory services in relation to:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Divestitures/disposals
- Carve-outs
- Strategic alliances
Miyelani Mkhabela
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER & INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSACTION ADVISORY LEADER
Miyelani Mkhabela is the founding director and chief economist of Antswisa Management Group, where he is responsible for economic thought leadership, leading the business development and initiating strategies to build and grow the boutique firm market value. He also serves in a number of leadership capacities including as a director of both the Antswisa Private Equity and Antswisa Asset Management. Miyelani a Pragmatic South African economist and Capital Markets Strategist, a regular contributor to South African and Global Broadcasting channels. He is passionate about improving economic development & expansion and productive capacity in South Africa and the rest of Africa Markets.
Previously worked at Maxima Global Management Consulting firm 2005 focusing on Financial and Project Management Advisory, Management ABSA Commercial Property Finance 2006 to 2007, Lecturing Management Strategy, Strategic Marketing, Economics and Investments at Business Colleges and Business Schools including Richfield College University and Milpark Business School. ABSA Operations and ABSA International Banking.
Participated as a youth director for Youth Chamber in mining, SA Youth Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry Youth Chamber, a former BMF Young Professional and BMF Johannesburg Management Committee Member. A member of the Investment Analysts Society of South Africa (SA Investment Society).
He is an invited speaker on a wide variety of macroeconomic topics at conferences, is a regular guest on SABC TV, CNBC AFRICA, Hong Kong TV, SAFM, German Television and China Global Television Network and a columnist at Independent Online (Business Report). He advises and leads on medium and high-end complex domestic and international Transaction Advisory support and strategic management tools in different sectors. He is a specialist analyst for the State Of The Nation Address and The Budget Speech in South Africa.
He Manage, facilitate and implement consulting services and meet client’s business targets (assignment objectives, project scope, budget, paperwork, external consultants’ supervision and project delivery). Working with team to develop and deliver client training programs and impart best practices knowledge sharing to unique clients needs.
Miyelani is known for correctly identifying economic reforms and turning points, providing solutions for Infrastructure and Industrial Development. Miyelani has presented papers at The Cross Border Payments and Remittances Conference 2014, The 4th BRICS International Competition Conference 2015 themed “Competition and Inclusive Growth; National Planning Commission Vision 2030 Conference 2016; The Presidency 25 years of Democracy conference 2019; State Owned Enterprises Conference 2019. He is pre-booked for the 2020 Future of Jobs conference as a VIP Panel Speaker. He is the Johannesburg region leader of Circular Economy Club (CEC Johannesburg).
He earned a Bachelors degree in Economics and Management from University of Johannesburg, Post Graduate Certificate in Management with The Graduate Institute of Management and Technology, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Personal Effectiveness (Funded by Nokia and Finland Embassy), Development Practice Full Qualification with ETDPSETA 2009, and a enrolled for an Executive Masters in Business Administration from UCT Graduate School Of Business. (currently has a dissertation outstanding).
