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About Masico Advisory

Our mission: to close the gap between corporate finance, legal and strategic advice – ensuring clients receive considered & integrated opinions and advice.

Muhammed Adam, Founder & Director of Masico Advisory
Our Leadership

Muhammed Adam

Founder & Director

Qualifications: B.Bus.Sci, Finance (UCT)  |  LL.B (UCT)

Professional Associations: Attorney of the High Court of South Africa

Muhammed holds a Bachelor of Business Science, Finance (with honours) and an LL.B (cum laude), having read for both at the University of Cape Town.

Shortly after completing his B.Bus.Sci, Muhammed started his career as an investment banker with global bulge-bracket investment bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, based in Johannesburg. He worked on transactions and projects providing advice across the corporate finance spectrum (M&A, ECM, valuations, and private equity).

Muhammed then joined another bulge-bracket global investment bank, UBS AG, where he continued to build his expertise as an investment banker.

In 2014, Muhammed returned to University to pursue a full-time, postgraduate degree in Law (LL.B) at the University of Cape Town, thereafter joining Africa’s pre-eminent corporate law firm, Bowmans. Whilst at Bowmans, he spent time building and honing his corporate and M&A legal skills for large listed and private companies under the guidance of some of the best Corporate, M&A and Tax partners globally.

Armed with this addition of a complementary legal skillset, Muhammed briefly joined the M&A team at Absa Bank Limited’s Corporate and Investment Bank, before realising during the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020 that he could best serve clients by offering a full-service suite utilising both his corporate finance and corporate-legal skillsets – the product of this realisation being Masico Advisory.

Selected Experience (Finance and Law)

  • Advised Oceana Group Limited on its c. R570m new BEE transaction, and its c. R570m specific share repurchase.
  • Advised PepsiCo Inc. on its c. US$1.7bn acquisition of 100% of Pioneer Foods.
  • Advised BP on the disposal of its South African fuels distributor business.
  • Advised Ascendis Health on the potential disposal of a major business.
  • Advised MTN on its offer for 100% of an African telecoms provider.
  • Fairness opinions for both MTN and Vodacom on selected African assets.
Our Mission & Values

Considered, integrated solutions

We ensure we provide services to our clients according to the best practices followed by the largest global corporates – partnering with our clients in implementing their strategic vision.

Access to large corporate “best practice”

Knowledge and expertise gleaned from the largest investment banks and “big law”, adapted for large corporates.

Ethical & accountable

The highest level of business and professional ethics, with direct access to our Founder for maximum accountability.

Cost efficient

Competitive pricing when compared to the large law firms and investment banks.

We speak all the “languages of business”

Corporate finance, legal and strategic offerings in one place – without the traditional “loss in translation”.

Independent

Our advice remains untainted by conflicts of interest, notwithstanding that we may be engaged to provide quasi-internal advisory services.