Valuation & Other Services
Strategic guidance for distressed businesses, maximizing returns and managing risk.
We specialize in executing transactions by offering comprehensive financial modelling, feasibility studies, and financing arrangements to support project implementation. We also advise governments and state-owned enterprises on divesting public sector stakes through share sales and management transfers, ensuring a smooth and efficient privatization process.
Our key role cover:
Corporate Reorganization – Optimizing company structure to enhance its value pre-sale.
Transaction Structuring – Designing strategic frameworks for successful execution.
Marketing & Global Roadshows – Engaging investors through targeted outreach.
Negotiation Support – Assisting in complex financial & commercial negotiation.
Post Deal Assistance – Supporting smooth transitions post-transaction.
Tailored Turnaround Plans
Proven methodologies to develop customized turnaround plans, maximizing efficiency and minimizing risk exposure for distressed businesses.
Financial Analysis
Independent financial analysis to assess performance and identify areas for improvement, providing actionable insights for informed decision-making.
Creditor Recommendations
Providing recommendations to creditors, facilitating negotiations, and optimizing outcomes for all stakeholders involved in the restructuring process.
Operational Efficiency
Examining company/group structure to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and minimize risks to the organization.
Debt Negotiation
Expert assistance in negotiating debt, whether raising new finance or renegotiating existing facilities, ensuring robust financial support and resilience against potential challenges.
Transactions History
Pakistan International Airlines – Privatisation
Buy side advisory to one of the bidders (consortium of Fly Jinnah & Air Arabia) for acquisition of majority stake & management control of PIA. While the transaction remains un-concluded and currently proceeding to a fresh bidding process.
Buy side advisory to one of the bidders
Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum
Advised the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum on the valuation of a container terminal at Karachi Port Trust (KPT). Services included the development of a detailed financial model and preparation of a comprehensive valuation report to support the transaction.
Advised the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook
Asscoiated Techologies Limited (ATL) – Telecom Towers
Sell-side advisory for an equity raise to expand ATL's telecom tower portfolio from approximately 1,000 to 2,250 towers. The engagement included conducting a thorough valuation exercise and developing a detailed financial model to support investor discussions and maximize capital raise outcomes.
Sell-side advisory for an equity raise to expand ATL's telecom
Tenaga Generasi Limited (TGL)
Acted as sell-side financial advisor to Dawood Lawrencepur Limited for the divestment of its 75% equity stake in Tenaga Generasi Limited (TGL), a 50 MW operational wind power project. Responsibilities included conducting a comprehensive valuation, preparing marketing materials, managing investor outreach, and overseeing the competitive bidding process through to final negotiations.
Acted as sell-side financial advisor to Dawood Lawrencepur
Our Team
Mr. Akbar Bilgrami
Chief Executive Officer
Islamabad, Pakistan.
Corporate finance, business strategy, contract negotiation and banking.
Akbar Bilgrami founded Bridge Factor & holds over 40 years of International experience in banking and corporate finance. Before Establishing Bridge Factor in 2005 he headed the Management Consultancy Division of Grant Thornton (Pakistan Practice). Akbar has been involved in a number of projects in an advisory capacity covering Loan Syndications, acquisitions in the Banking, Telecom, Power and Manufacturing Sectors, as well as major privatisation transactions. Given his vast international experience and expansive network of contacts, Akbar has been instrumental in arranging equity and debt finance for major clients, structuring and negotiating mergers & acquisition deals, and providing negotiation support in complex transactions on the national and international front.
abilgrami@bridgefactor.com
Mr. Ahmad Khan
Director
Islamabad, Pakistan
orporate finance, M&A advisory, capital raising & restructuring and privatizations
Ahmad is an experienced investment banker with more than 22 years of professional experience in corporate finance, privatizations, M&A advisory and management consulting. He has actively closed/worked on advisory mandates worth USD 7 billion. His experience in privatization sector spans on last 15 years where he worked on nearly USD 4 billion mandates which includes both sell side and buy side advisory. Ahmed has been instrumental in obtaining recognitions and accolades from reputed accreditation organizations including Euromoney, Bloomberg, Thomson, Factset, The Banker and CFA Association of Pakistan. Ahmad is a Chartered Accountant and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
ahmad.khan@bridgefactor.com
Mr. Yasar Najib
Director
Islamabad, Pakistan
Energy sector advisory, capital raising and restructuring, contract negotiation
Yasar holds with him more than 20 years of experience in project development and management, debt arrangement and structuring, fund management and financial advisory. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Foundation Power Company Daharki Limited before joining Bridge Factor, where he specialized in contract negotiation, finalization of project agreements and arrangement of financing. He brings with him intensive experience from the corporate sector having worked with Fauji Foundation, Private Power and Infrastructure Board and Petroleum Exploration (Pvt.) Limited. Yasar is a Chartered Accountant and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
yasar@bridgefactor.com
Mr. Sohail Ali Zaidi
Director
Islamabad, Pakistan
Corporate finance, M&A and transaction structuring advisory and contract negotiation
Sohail is a Director at Bridge Factor (Private) Limited, and holds with him more than 19 years of experience in strategy formulation, long term planning, business development, financial analysis, capital raising, and mergers & acquisition. Before joining Bridge Factor he has served with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International (DTTI-Pakistan Practice) and and Moores Rowland International (Pakistan Practice). Sohail has been led transactions from inception up till success in the power sector, telecom sector, infrastructure sector and banking.
sohail@bridgefactor.com
