BuildKilo Advisory · Fund it.
Advisory that raises capital, sharpens strategy, and delivers.
We help governments, institutions and businesses raise growth and infrastructure funding, shape strategy, and run the projects and programmes that turn plans into results, from business case to financial close and beyond.
BuildKilo Advisory
We pair strategy-house rigour with hands-on delivery, across capital raising, strategy and operations advisory. We've mobilised R500m+ in grants for medium-sized businesses, and participated in facilitating US$3bn+ in energy and project financing deals, leading a consortium of established transaction partners.
Who we serve
- Governments & SOEs
- DFIs & donors
- Corporates & mid-market
- Investors & funds
What we do
Infrastructure & project finance advisory
Sovereign and state-owned-enterprise programmes: funding strategy, PPP and EPC-plus-finance structures, and DFI and syndicate engagement for roads, rail, ports, energy and public infrastructure.
Transaction advisory & capital raising
From investment case and financial model to funder engagement, term-sheet negotiation and financial close.
Grant & donor fundraising
Donor mapping, bankable proposal development, theory of change, and submission-to-disbursement management across DFI, international donor and corporate CSI funders.
Strategy & operations advisory
Growth strategy, operating-model design and commercial advisory, with project and programme management that turns strategy into delivery, on time and on budget.
Commercial due diligence & structuring
Commercial due diligence on acquisition and investment targets, plus deal, transaction and corporate structuring for investors and management teams.
Financial modelling & business cases
Investment-committee-grade models, PIMs and business cases built to funder standards.
Our approach
How we run a mandate
A transaction advisor turns intent into bankable packages, competitive terms and funds that actually flow. Every mandate runs as one programme, end to end.
- 01
Scope & mandate
Confirm scope, borrowing entities and the approvals map; agree the mandate and workplan.
Our role: Set up the programme office
- 02
Prepare & structure
Right borrower, right instrument: financial model, funding options and an information memorandum built to funder standard.
Our role: Build the bankable case
- 03
Approach funders
The right institutions approached at the right level, as one process, with competitive tension preserved.
Our role: Create competitive tension
- 04
Diligence & negotiate
Technical, legal and E&S diligence managed; pricing, covenants, security and conditions defended line by line.
Our role: Defend your terms
- 05
Close & disburse
Documentation, guarantees and financial close, then conditions precedent and drawdown readiness until funds flow.
Our role: Make the funds flow
Structures funders recognise
We design funding and pricing structures to development-finance credit standards, because we build for their committees.
A bankable pack, quickly
Investment-committee-grade financial models, business cases and information memoranda are our core craft.
One senior team, mandate to disbursement
Every mandate is director-led, scaled through our consortium of established transaction partners. No juniors learning on your time.
By the numbers
Our advisory practice, in brief.
in grants mobilised for medium-sized businesses
in energy and project financing deals facilitated, leading a consortium
full advisory cycle, end to end
team drawn from global strategy, corporate-finance and development finance institutions
What our advisory team has delivered
The advisory team's background and capabilities, drawn from senior consulting and corporate-finance experience. We describe the work, not the client: engagements of this kind are confidential.
Capital & development finance
- Senior executive experience inside development finance, including at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), with longstanding relationships across the DFI community, including the IDC and the DBSA.
- Raised growth and expansion capital through development finance institutions, blending loan and grant instruments.
- Structured and led grant and donor fundraises, from donor mapping through bankable proposal to disbursement.
- Built investment-committee-grade financial models, business cases and information memoranda to funder standards.
Strategy & transformation
- Led commercial turnaround and revenue-uplift strategies for telecoms and financial-services businesses across Africa and the Middle East.
- Designed digital-bank and fintech build strategies, including proposition, segment strategy, and five-year business plans.
- Delivered continent-wide cost-efficiency and operating-model transformations, benchmarking against global best practice.
- Conducted commercial due diligence on acquisition targets for private-equity investors.
- Designed risk-based pricing and risk-appetite frameworks for large development and investment institutions.
Infrastructure & project finance, with our consortium
ConsortiumLarger programmes are delivered through a consortium of established transaction partners whose directors have advised on transactions in excess of R800bn across project finance, infrastructure finance, corporate advisory and capital markets, in current and prior roles. Selected joint experience:
Energy & project finance
- Transaction advisory and capital-raising strategy for a US$1.7bn integrated biorefinery development (bio-SAF and renewable diesel).
- Debt advisory and capital-raising structuring for a US$1.2bn cross-border project finance mandate.
- Sponsor-side advisory on a 200MW utility-scale solar PV programme, from structuring to funding strategy.
- Monetisation advisory on a 165MW solar PV and battery storage development, including valuation and deal structuring.
- Structuring for a R340m project preparation facility raise supporting early-stage infrastructure development.
Transport, corporate & public infrastructure
- Appointed alongside the DBSA to package African Union PIDA corridor transport projects for presentation to investors.
- Transaction advisory and pricing across the corporatisation of a national ports authority: institutional, financial and regulatory workstreams.
- Lead transaction advisor for the feasibility study of an international airport rail link.
- Capital restructuring strategy for a national airports company: dividend policy, capital structure and regulatory review.
- Scoping and advisory for the bankable feasibility study of a liquid bulk terminal at a major South African port.
- Buy-side advisory on the acquisition of a 19.5% equity interest in a national open-access fibre operator.
- Design of B-BBEE ownership structures and economic development frameworks for IPP procurement and corporates.