What we do

Ignition is primarily focused on providing financial advisory services to clients that have already been through at least one round of early-stage financing. The firm’s Venture Capital Advisory practice most often centers on advising a client which is looking to raise additional capital from either existing early-stage investors, new venture capital funds or private equity funds. The firm represents both companies that have previously gone through one or more venture capital financing rounds, as well as venture capital firms interested in increasing their portfolio or selling their portfolio companies.

Financial sponsors play an important role in growing the start-up ecosystem and the importance of finding the right fit between investors and fast growing start-up ventures.

Investing in technology companies is very new in the Philippines with very few experienced professionals to properly guide investors. Investors can benefit from our services in their search to acquire companies, identify potential companies to grow their portfolio, sell mature portfolio companies, and raise a variety of debt capital including bank, non-bank, and high yield.

Strategic alliances are an effective business tool to quickly expand a business by immediately acquiring expertise, business relationships, and market access. For these reasons, joint-ventures are popular among both public and privately held corporations, and established and start-up companies.

That said, a poorly planned and inadequately documented joint-venture can result in a draining financial burden, intellectual property issues, a tarnished market reputation, excessive costs for dispute resolution and other resource depleting and opportunity costs.

These Joint-Ventures should be managed with an experienced and skilled advisor, carefully structuring the process and approach to resolve potential issues such as day-to-day operations, roles and responsibilities, intellectual property, expense-sharing, tax consequences, revenue sharing, etc…

The firm has the resources, expertise and experience to properly advise clients and help them negotiate on these complex issues, minimizing the risk of conflict and mapping out the mechanisms to resolve them should any occur.

The firm has developed a unique and customized Family Business Advisory practice over the years. We recognize that family-owned businesses – whether entirely privately owned, or partially publicly owned, with a dominant equity ownership held by family shareholders – have unique characteristics that require a special focus and custom- tailored services.

The firm has advised family businesses on the following: mergers and acquisitions, financing; succession issues; managing the transition to a more professional and structured non-family management style; and, the creation or revision of corporate governance and ownership structures consistent with changing the family and company’s needs.

A proper analysis of the valuation of a company is the foundation for any type of merger/acquisition/investment. A grounded understanding of the current market valuation of a business is essential in drafting a business plan, creating a strategy for expansion and growth, refinancing or restructuring a business. Even when the business owners have no intention of selling the business, an understanding of the current market value of the business and how to enhance its value is a critical part of planning for growth.

In addition, a business, may need a fairness opinion to finalize an acquisition or investment, which has already been negotiated between the parties, but needs a third party confirmation of the value of the entities in a transaction.