Thorough forensic accounting identifies discrepancies, detects fraud, and ensures financial integrity, providing clarity and confidence in every transaction.
At Echelon Associates, we offer smart corporate consultancy that streamlines operations and fosters sustainable growth. Our expert team combines strategic insight with tailored guidance, transforming complex challenges into simple solutions.
Our Corporate Services team advises both established companies and start-ups that demonstrate potential for sustainable growth. Boards seek our guidance to structure their international affairs and list on recognised Stock Exchanges, helping them to navigate complex regulatory requirements.
We value disruptive technologies, innovative concepts, and strong corporate governance, particularly within the ESG sector.
Where needed, Echelon also assists funding recipients in managing sustainable funding programmes and provides comprehensive stock-exchange and payment services.
Companies requiring capital to launch or expand turn to us for our extensive expertise. Our team has a proven track record across various sectors, including Leisure and Commercial Property, Corporate Finance, and, more recently, the Sustainable, Renewable, and EV sectors.
Many firms approach their bank manager for a business loan, expecting thorough analysis and due diligence. Yet how many bank managers actually visit factories, meet directors, or scrutinise order books and accounts? We suspect very few, if any and surely that is what proper assessment should involve.
The notion that a bank manager can become an expert in designing and constructing a 100 MW solar farm, or in the technical intricacies of creating an EV charging unit, is rather unrealistic. If they cannot accurately assess an existing project’s financial prospects, how can they possibly develop the expertise to fund it?
Over the past decade, Echelon’s Directors and consultants have transitioned from property-related corporate finance to concentrate primarily on the ESG, CSR, sustainable, and renewable energy sector, establishing Echelon as a specialist consultancy in this niche market.
Echelon Associates connects innovative projects with the funding they need to grow, with a specialist focus on the ESG, Sustainable, and Renewable Energy sectors. Our mission is to match visionary ideas, including solar farms, EV projects, and research in sustainable energy, with the right investment partners.
We support technical innovators who are experts in their field but may need help navigating the corporate landscape. Our team manages the legal and financial work, produces promotional materials and websites, and oversees IT, PR, and lead generation.
Our commitment is based on shared success. We earn a percentage of revenue, profit share, or equity only when your project is successful. This ensures our partnership is truly invested in helping you achieve your goals and delivering real impact for both business and society.
A Transparent, Collaborative Path to Success from First Meeting to Lasting Partnership
We begin by meeting to thoroughly evaluate your product or idea. Our team conducts an in-depth analysis of market penetration potential, calculates projected set-up costs, and forecasts revenue streams to establish a clear path forward and agree on a mutually beneficial deal structure.
Once a deal is negotiated, Echelon Associates takes the lead. We cover all professional service costs while our experts draft and design a compelling fundraising offer engineered to attract the right investors and secure incoming capital.
We assemble and appoint a dedicated team of legal, financial, creative, and consultancy experts. This unified team manages the entire process of listing your securities on the appropriate financial exchanges, ensuring full compliance and a seamless market entry.
In parallel with the listing process, we collaborate with you to develop a powerful brand identity for the underlying product or idea. Together, we launch a coordinated international marketing campaign to build global awareness and generate demand.
As the initial investment capital is secured, we receive between 5% and 10% of the incoming funds. This serves to cover our upfront costs and remunerate our team for the work and risk involved in successfully listing and promoting the investment opportunity.
When your product or idea begins generating sales revenue, our partnership continues. We receive 5% to 10% of this ongoing revenue as compensation for our role in successfully launching the product into the marketplace and for sharing the initial risk.
After an initial period of success, typically within 3 to 5 years, clients often wish to operate independently. We facilitate this transition by negotiating a straightforward release, allowing you to buy back the contract, with terms that are sometimes pre-agreed.
Our journey can lead to several outcomes: we may part ways, both satisfied with the joint venture’s success; we may form a lasting bond and collaborate on new businesses; or, in rare cases, we may fail to secure investment or sales. In any event, the financial risk remains with us, costing you nothing.
Strategic Pathways for Effective Market Entry
Funding can be sourced via mezzanine finance, equity swaps, IP cessions, corporate loans and option agreements.
Funds can be raised via loan notes & corporate bonds, debentures, financial institutions, HNWI and Family Offices.
Investment can be packaged into a SIPP, SSAS, QROP or OPS pension wrapper.*
*UK specialists only.
There is a great deal of money looking for a home. The most important aspect is packaging and presenting the opportunity correctly, and in an enticing manner.