KOWOSTONE ADVISORY SERVICES is a wholly black owned emerging boutique advisory firm focusing on project management, public private partnership advisory services and architectural design services. We use our vast multi-disciplinary project management capabilities, experience and expertise to design and provide project solutions for major public private partnership projects in energy, telecommunications, mining, construction, tourism, water and sanitation sectors in South Africa, SADC and indeed Africa as well as internationally.

The firm works locally and regionally with governments, government departments, local government and municipalities, state owned enterprises, parastatals, investment promotion agencies, development agencies and partners, local and global investors; matching opportunities and project promoters with project finance and funders.

KOWOSTONE also have a strategic business unit (SBU) Kowostone Architectural Design Studio (KADS) that offers a variety of critical architectural design studio services.

In collaboration with our associates from industry, private sector and the academia, we are able to provide a variety of cutting-edge advisory services as well as project management services. Our diversified range of expertise enables us to provide comprehensive professional services on multi-disciplinary projects and multi-sectoral assignments within the broader scope of public private partnerships and infrastructure and development and service sectors.

ABOUT US

KOWOSTONE offers a comprehensive package of public private partnership transaction advisory options and solutions in project development, deal making, project management, business lobbying, capital facilitation, investment promotion, event management, logistics coordination, monitoring and evaluation that meet our customers' demands for bankable solutions. In rendering transaction advisory services, we ensure that our clients get first class service from conceptualisation of public private partnerships all the way to financial close. In handling project management assignments, we can advise our clients from pre-planning, to detailed planning through to execution, monitoring and evaluation and reporting.

In our quest to source for deals, we undertake capital-raising road-shows internationally and regionally as we host strategic business-to-business investment conferences, workshops and indabas.

KOWOSTONE maintains a core team of competent resources who are connected to the industry and the market. Through our contacts in the industry, we are able to get leads and referrals on companies seeking new markets and opportunities for project finance, corporate finance, joint ventures, private-public partnerships, community private-public partnerships, etc. We also have access to international firms and investors looking for markets to invest their money within energy, mining, engineering and other sectors.

KOWOSTONE is committed to meeting our clients financing needs and expectations by providing our clients with innovative, integrated financial solutions as both advisor and arranger. We have experience in all aspects of the process of Project Finance starting from the Term Sheet through to the successful Financial Close. We offer professional advice to both the lender and the borrower.

KOWOSTONE works closely with national governments, provincial authorities, municipalities, development and international agencies, regional institutions and groupings; offering them expertise and capabilities in order to successfully compete for project finance. In order to understand our client's needs and business better, we work with them closely in order to guide them in the acquisition, development, finance and operations of a variety of infrastructure assets.