DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-(NewMediaWire - Jun 2, 2017)
- Global Equity International,
Inc. (OTCQB: GEQU)
and its fully-owned foreign subsidiaries, a specialist consultancy
firm with offices located in Dubai and London, are proud to
announce that, on June 1, 2017, management formally agreed and
signed terms to acquire two Financial Advisory Firms with Funds
under Management which will be the first step in the Company´s
short to mid-term inorganic growth plan (Growth by
Acquisition).
The first of the two companies, to be acquired, is a United
Kingdom-based financial advisory firm fully licensed by the UK
Financial Authority (FCA) with approximately US$51,000,000 of funds
under management. The second company is an Isle of Man based
"Discretionary Fund Management Group" with approximately
US$39,000,000 of funds under management. Both targeted acquisitions
have been in operation for many years and are profitable. Both
companies have the same owners hence the two acquisitions will be
closed simultaneously very soon after comprehensive due diligence
has been carried out by GEQU´s management team.
Peter Smith, CEO of Global Equity International Inc.,
said: "We have been working on the entire
structure of acquiring a series of advisory firms with funds under
management, as is public knowledge, for almost a year now and so
far have explored over 25 opportunities with approximately half of
them still currently ongoing. We are delighted to be finally making
these first two acquisitions not only bringing in a collective
US$90 million or so, but we also will have around US$39 Million of
discretionary funds that can enhance the profile of our business
and our potential funding capabilities of our clients. These
acquisitions also bring distribution to the GEQU table allowing us
a much wider market for potentially funding our clients and further
growth by acquisition. We do not foresee any problems with the due
diligence process as we have already had a good insight into both
companies financials, etc. We feel that these acquisitions are a
very good start and we will see the next acquisitions, one in the
UK and another in Asia, following in close succession after this
Summer. Our funder is fully aware of the targeted acquisitions and
is extremely supportive of the initiative we are running. There are
not many companies in our line of business that also have funds
under management, let alone 'discretionary' funds under management.
This is only stage one of a comprehensively well thought out
acquisition plan that will stretch through 2017 and into 2018 with
the long term target of acquiring, up to but not limited to, US$1.5
Billion of funds under management still very much in the firing
line. I can firmly state with my hand on my heart that these are
extremely exciting times for our Company and its
shareholders."
Enzo Taddei, CFO of Global Equity International Inc.,
said: "I have always said that Rome was not built
in one day and finally, it seems that the last building blocks are
being put in place. We believe that the agreed terms for these two
initial acquisitions are favourable to our Company, we will pay
approximately one third of the acquisition price on execution of
the acquisition agreements and the rest, via the acquired cash
flows, in two tranches over 18 and 36 months post acquisition. With
a little tweaking and some creativity, this initial US$90 Million
that the Company will have under management should produce, in
accordance to industry standards, an annual revenue stream of 1% of
the funds under management and we have many ideas, based on
management's previous experience, on how to enhance this revenue
stream even more. Finally, business has been perceived to be a
little slow on certain other fronts of our overall business plan
but these acquisitions that will be, in essence, the acquisition of
solid recurring revenues, will be a massive achievement in our
book."
About Global Equity International Inc. and
Subsidiaries.
Global Equity International Inc., through its wholly-owned
foreign subsidiaries, advises worldwide business leaders with their
most critical decisions and opportunities pertaining to growth,
capital needs, structure and the development of a global presence.
With offices in Dubai and London, Global Equity has developed
significant relationships in the US, UK, Central Europe, the Middle
East and South East Asia to assist clients in realizing their full
value and potential by bringing them to external capital and
resources that place an emphasis on collaborative thinking.
Furthermore, because Global Equity has offices in key financial
centres of the world, they are able to introduce their clients to a
unique opportunity of listing their shares on any one of the many
stock exchanges worldwide.
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of 1995, including statements related to anticipated revenues,
expenses, earnings, operating cash flows, the outlook for markets
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