Capital Markets | Direct Lending | Working Capital

What we do

Louw & Company finances South Africa’s best mid-market companies.

Our mission is to identify exceptional management teams, products and market opportunities, and remove finance as the barrier to growth.

The solutions we provide are typically related to trade finance, working capital finance, short-term project finance and annuity income assets.

Louw & Company is an approved Cape Town Stock Exchange Debt Issuer Agent.

Who we work with

Our clients are high-growth, working capital-hungry businesses that do repeat transactions and are looking for a value-adding finance partner.
We have a preference for industries with a natural tail wind and strong ESG angle such as alternative energy or job creation.
We have structured over 170 transactions in the last 5 years.

Contact us

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“My banker was upset with me…

After posting eight thousand dollars in sales in my first year, I was projecting sixteen thousand dollars in my second, and according to my banker this was a very troubling trend.‘Your rate of growth is too fast for your equity’, he said.”

- Phil Knight, Founder of Nike

What makes us different

We work with a select group of growth-orientated clients.

We use proprietary structures and bespoke variations of traditional approaches to design financing solutions around business processes and corporate structures… not the other way around.
The amount of capital we provide is significantly scalable, so we can adapt our approaches as a business grows.

The Team

We are a team of highly-experienced finance professionals with deep international experience at world-leading institutions including Merrill Lynch, BlueBay, Goldman Sachs and E&Y..

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Dr Andrew Louw CFA

- Director -

Andrew was most recently an Institutional Portfolio Manager at BlueBay Asset Management, a $60 billion UK and US-based fixed income manager. Prior to BlueBay, Andrew was a Credit Analyst for Northlight, a European hedge fund, and an Investment Analyst for Consensus Business Group, a UK private equity firm.

Richard Saltzman

- Non-executive Director -

Richard is the former Vice-Chairman of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and former CEO of Colony Capital, a New York Stock Exchange listed company. He is widely credited with introducing the modern REIT to Wall Street.

Nikki Louw

- Director -

Nikki was most recently Head of Sales and Distribution at ClucasGray Asset Management. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at BlueBay Asset Management, where she was a Senior Credit Analyst. Nikki began her finance career working for Goldman Sachs in London and New York.

Alastair Dove CA(SA)

- Associate -

Alastair is a chartered accountant CA(SA). He completed his articles at Ernst & Young Johannesburg in 2021. Alastair holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting and B. Bus Sci Finance with Accounting from the University of Cape Town. He was a member of The Golden Key Society and Dean's Merit List.

Balela Sibema

- Analyst -

Balela graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2020 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and in 2021 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Economics degree. She was a member of the EHS Marching Band which won 5 consecutive national championships while she was a member.

Lezli Clarke

- Finance Manager -

Lezli previously worked for PKFOctagon. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town and a Postgraduate diploma in Applied Accounting Sciences from the University of South Africa.

Richard Allen

- Investment Administrator -

Richard has 20 years investment banking back and middle office administration experience in the UK and US. Before moving to South Africa he worked for BNP Paribas in London.

Sipho Gwabavu

- Associate -

Sipho was previously a Sovereign and Financial Institutions Credit Manager in the Corporate and Investment Banking division at Nedbank. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Economics and Econometrics, as well as a postgraduate Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree in Investment Management from the University of Johannesburg.

Lizzie Vundla

-Office Maintenance-

After the Founder, Lizzie is the Firm’s second longest serving employee.

Location

Johannesburg
Commerce Square
First floor, Building 2
91 Helling Rd
Sandhurst
Johannesburg, 2196

Cape Town
The Yacht Club Offices Ground Floor, Unit 012
2 Dockrail Road Foreshore
Cape Town, 8001

Hours
Monday–Friday
9am–5pm

Email
info@louw.com

Phone
(011) 568 2375