Clients

As a financial advisor, SPOT Investments offers its services to companies that meet the following criteria:  

  • Operate in Latin America
  • Have at least 3 years of continuous operations in the market
  • Make part of consolidated and strategic industries with high growth potentials such as hydrocarbon, agro industry, infrastructure, technology, health, etc.
  • Have yearly sales between US$ 5 – US$ 150 million and EBITDA margins higher than 15%
  • Be at an inflection point in their growth curve
  • Have financial, strategic and corporate needs that can be fulfilled with the entrance of new investors
  • Estimate that the required capital raise will translate to extraordinary expansion with respect to the company’s historic growth tendency.   

With SPOT Investment’s collaboration companies obtain the financial support to become a market share leader, either by developing their production or sales expansion plan, by accessing new markets or by developing new product lines. These goals may be achieved either through the company’s organic growth or through acquisitions, whatever better suits the company.  

 

Financing through private equity as well as through public listing of the company’s shares in a stock exchange, result in an increase of the company’s value. This is due to the fact that manager’s negotiation skills are professionalized, corporate government standards are formalized, independent board of directors are conformed and external audit firms are hired; these policies increase the company’s transparency facilitating the access to subsequent financing mechanisms.   

 

 

Financing process through public equity is used in companies that due to its sales and revenue levels, and its dominant position in the local markets want to expand their presence to an international level by listing their shares in a US stock exchange. Some of the requirements that companies must fulfill in order to go public in the OTC are the following:

  • Minimum market cap of US$ 50 MM/ minimum Stockholders equity of US$ 5 MM/ minimum net revenue of US$ 0.75 MM.
  • Have at least 300 shareholders.
  • Have at least 1MM floating public shares with a minimum nominal value of US$ 4.
  • The CEO and CFO must deeply understand their role in the public company, the importance of selling the company’s shares and the meaning of publishing and informing the markets participants about each and every event that goes on with the company. They must be familiar with the SOX (Saubernes – Oaxley) regulations.
  • Companies must commit with an IR (Investment Relation) firm that informs the market about the company’s existence and developments.