Sandari Limited incorporated in 2011 by Aristarichus Kuria is a Kenya based financial boutique consultancy firm with a clear vertical on East Africa.
Aristarichus Kuria has vast experience in trade and working capital deal structuring having worked for various local Kenyan banks. His resent senior level assignment being with Standard Chartered Bank as a Director and Team head in Commercial Banking, leading a team of senior relationship managers and senior analysts to scout, monitor and grow portfolio companies with turnovers of &10M to $100M for short and long term debt funding.
Our Vision is to build businesses and establish long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, companies, FDIs & PE firms who share this vision for growth and value creation. Our firm is built on a foundation of experience, fairness, economic rationale, flexibility and trust, and we bring these values into every opportunity we pursue.
Our success is driven by two key characteristics: operational know-how and financial expertise. The team applies its local knowledge, world-class experience and an open-minded approach to dealing with the challenges of investing in East Africa.
Our industry backgrounds provide insight into the challenges portfolio companies face, enabling us to serve as financial and strategic partners through the entire investment cycle. Working side by side, we create relationships rooted in operational excellence, based on trust, flexibility and collaboration. We form partnerships with our portfolio companies, FDIs & PE firms and seek like-minded management teams to build businesses, not just assets. These are the esteemed organization culture & behavior that define us and create successes for our partners and our firm.
The firm goal is to seek out compelling investment opportunities and aims to obtain exclusive terms, rational pricing and strong influence. The investment philosophy places great importance on working closely with the funds’ portfolio companies to create value while looking for attractive exit opportunities throughout the funds’ investment period. Through its rich mix of complementary capabilities, regional “on the ground” knowledge and a language skill, Sandari Limited is able to offer a detailed understanding of the operational and transactional issues of investing in East Africa.
Business Development
We help FDIs & PE firms to invest in companies benefiting from the fast-growing emerging middle class in East Africa.
Sandari Limited is a “one stop shop” facilitating long-term financial instruments (long-term debt, equity and quasi equity investments), with high ESG standards.
Sandari Limited specializes in sourcing & scouting for deals for and on behalf of FDI firms and PE firms who structure and manage those investments in dynamic companies to achieve medium to long-term capital appreciation or return on Investment.
Sandari Limited scouts for deals for FDIs & PE firms. The prospective FDIs & PE firms are able to do a variety of asset classes i.e. debt, equity & mezzanine debt. Sandari Limited matches that with the local corporates clients project finance & trade & working capital requirements.
Sandari Limited would like to bring together a pool of private investors from Europe and America, many of whom access Africa for the first time or those that are keen to expound their existing portfolios in East Africa.
African private equity and financial development institutions have come of age. More managers are raising more money from more sources than ever before. We believe that the emerging reality is that firms and their capital sources need to be ‘on ground’ to originate and pro-actively add-value, particularly in the SME and local corporates space.
To the different asset classes, Sandari Limited is relatively unique to private equity and financial development institutions in Africa and offer its clients, practitioners and investors a rare opportunity to deliver solid financial returns and a positive economic impact. We are very excited about the evolution of the African private equity industry & the role financial development institutions play hence we look forward to being an active part for their success.