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Debt raising · Treasury advisory
Utano Capital Advisory helps companies and financial institutions raise debt, manage liquidity and market risk, and build treasury teams that run it themselves.
Lenders fund balance sheets they can understand, and treasuries they can trust.
Most funding problems are treasury problems first: forecasts no one relies on, currency risk left open, covenants watched only at year end.
We fix both sides. We raise the debt, and we build the treasury that carries it.
What we do
Debt raising
Bilateral, syndicated and wholesale facilities from commercial banks, development finance institutions and private credit, from the funding plan to signed documents.
Refinancings, extensions, standstills and covenant resets, negotiated with single lenders and across syndicates, with the borrower’s case prepared to lender standard.
Information memoranda, financial models, data rooms and term sheets, then running the process to close.
Treasury
Treasury operating model, roles and policies, with hands-on skills transfer so the team runs it after we leave.
Cash and liquidity forecasting, asset-liability management, and covenant monitoring tools that look forward, not back.
Currency and interest-rate risk measurement, hedging policy, derivative documentation readiness and execution support.
How we work
We map the balance sheet, the cash flows, the lenders and the team, and say plainly what needs fixing first.
We set the funding plan and the treasury framework to fit the institution: policies, limits, tools, timelines.
We build the models, tools and lender materials alongside the team, not in a back room.
We embed the routines and transfer the skills, so the capability stays when the engagement ends.
Experience
Debt raising · Pan-African
Raised debt for a listed group across its African markets, including one of the largest single debt syndications in Sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa: over $300 million from leading South African banks, structured as a cross-collateralised platform across five markets with sustainability-linked pricing.
Restructuring · Multi-lender
Refinanced multi-jurisdictional debt, negotiated covenant waivers and amendments, managed liquidity under pressure, and secured a super-senior liquidity bridge ahead of a wider recapitalisation, across South African, Mauritian and Kenyan banks.
Wholesale funding · Financial institution
Structuring and raising institutional wholesale funding for a bank’s new secured lending platform: funding strategy, lender materials, credit framework and borrower pipeline.
Principal
Founder and Principal
Munya leads Utano Capital Advisory. A Chartered Accountant (CA(SA), CA(Z)), he has spent his career on the funding side of the balance sheet: raising and restructuring debt across African markets, negotiating with banks and development finance institutions, and building the treasury discipline that lenders look for. His work has spanned one of the largest single debt syndications in Sub-Saharan Africa outside South Africa, multi-lender restructurings, and wholesale funding for a regulated lender. He works between Dubai and Harare.
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