Eccles Associates, Inc., established in the United States in 1990, is a financial consulting firm and investment banking boutique. The firm has established formal relationships with multinational companies and has extensive contacts with government officials, reserve bank governors, attorneys, and business people throughout the world.

The firm's successful financial consulting firm advises governments and businesses in a number of financially related areas including private sector development, privatization, and telecommunications.

Due to its active participation in the US and South Africa and its keen understanding of the two capital markets, Eccles Associates is uniquely positioned as a niche investment banking firm that clearly and convincingly communicates a South African company strategy, vision, joint venture criteria, and capital needs to local, regional and US partners and capital providers. The investment banking side of the firm raises capital (both debt and equity) for start up, growth and expansion of existing operations and joint ventures. The products and services offered include MBOs, MBIs, sales of non-core assets and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Eccles Associates differentiates its business service by offering senior and highly qualified corporate finance professionals who provide exceptional turn around time and quality solutions that uniquely fit the customers' short, intermediate and long-term financial goals and strategic objectives. The firm provides superior corporate finance solutions that exhibit creative structuring skills matched with quick response times to client requests. Our knowledge of specific sectors and companies within sectors having exceptional growth prospects and the ability to expand regionally or internationally is unparalleled.

Eccles Associates uses an advocacy rather than a broker approach in the service that it renders. The firm provides a fully structured debt or equity offering when approaching lenders or investors on behalf of its client. This results in better terms and conditions for the client without restrictive covenants or other conditions. Companies often use Eccles Associates as a long-term advisor because of the firm's knowledge of the customers' business and the industry in which it competes and operates, resulting in greater shareholder value.

EA emphasizes and seeks to aggressively position issuer's offerings of debt and equity to investors while knowing the limitations of the capital market participants (banks, insurance companies, pension funds, private equity funds, etc.) at different times based on market circumstances and portfolio constraints. The cornerstone of EA's issuer focus will be creating competitive bidding for each issue that EA brings to its capital market partners.

The firm has played a critical role in the design and implementation of privatization programs in Europe and throughout Africa. Many privatization initiatives require equity capital to augment the participation of local constituencies in the purchase of privatized assets. EA's development of its private equity expertise has supported privatization initiatives, particularly in Africa.