Tamesis, the name the Romans gave to the River Thames, has always been the main gateway for merchants trading with London. We act as a gateway into the financial resources of the city for our corporate clients with mining projects across the world.
About Us
We are based in the City of London. From this location we provide financing solutions, advisory services, and access to capital and investors for the global mining and natural resource sectors.
Tamesis was formed in 2016 to bring a fresh approach in the context of radically changed capital markets and operating environment for natural resources companies. We aim to serve our clients in a way that addresses their core requirements, free from less value-add activities and the potential conflicts inherent in the traditional legacy broker model. Collectively our senior team has decades of shared experience in mining finance from market leading firms, including GMP Securities, Barclays Capital, Cazenove, J.P. Morgan and Ambrian Partners.
Our Services
Tamesis Partners is a financial boutique with a global reach, connecting natural resources companies to finance, so they can build or expand on their operations.
Our goal is to act as an extension to our client’s team, supporting the management of their responsibilities to shareholders, stakeholders and regulators. This enables clients to focus on what they are best at, and to achieve what they set out to do – namely building mines, producing metal and transforming local economies along the way.
Corporate Broking
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Our focus is helping our clients to access new shareholders and capital on the best terms. Our corporate broking is led by two specialist natural resources salesmen and supported by our Research and Investment Banking teams. We deliver a fully aligned corporate broking service to UK and international listed companies comprising:
- Structuring the investment thesis for maximum impact
- Refinement of marketing materials
- Detailed review and input into company press releases
- Targeted roadshows focusing on the addressable investor audience by reference to size, liquidity, listing and sector
- Detailed investor feedback
- Investor perception studies
Our institutional equity investor client base has been built through our team’s longstanding sector experience gained at market leading firms and comprises:
- UK smaller company and generalist funds
- Specialist natural resources funds
- Special situation and event driven funds
- Private equity
- Family offices
- Wealth managers
We provide corporate access to institutions as an “acceptable minor non-monetary benefit” under MiFID II regulations without seeking to offer a trading execution service (see MiFID II page for further details). We are therefore able to access the widest possible institutional audience to the benefit of our corporate client and without charge to our institutional clients.
Advisory & Investment Banking
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Investment banking services we provide include:
- M&A advisory with a particular specialism in cross border transactions
- UK Takeover Code governed transactions and Rule 3 advice
- Independent valuation analysis
- Strategic reviews
- Special project advice and board/ independent committee support
- Fairness opinions
- Private Equity transactions
- Fixed income, structured finance and commodity linked transactions
- Public equity raising across all of the major natural resources focused stock exchanges globally
- Initial Public Offering and listing transactions
- Board consultancy services including investor perception studies, leveraging our extensive global investor relationships
Raising Capital
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Leveraging our investor relationships, analysis and investment banking expertise, we work with our corporate clients to design financing packages which optimise the cost of capital. We specialise in raising capital for companies listed on the world’s major natural resources stock exchanges and regularly participate in international syndicates where we have strong working relationships with many international broking partners. As sector specialists we have long standing and deep relationships with providers of finance across the capital structure including:
- Public market equity
- Private equity
- Strategic/ industry investment
- Alternative finance structures including royalty and streaming
- Direct lending
- Convertible debt
- Mainstream lending institutions
- Development bank funding
- Offtake linked financing
Research
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Our research efforts are led by David Butler, one of the most experienced and well followed analysts in London with over 20 years’ experience including coverage on a number of the world’s largest mining companies and listings.
We seek to provide the definitive research coverage on our corporate clients, distributed to the widest possible audience.
Our research coverage comprises detailed initiation notes, and ongoing maintenance coverage focused on value added commentary and analysis rather than news release aggregation and repetition.
Research commentary benefits directly from corporate broking feedback, seeking to answer the questions that investors are interested in.
Our research is fully MiFID II compliant and made available to institutions and sophisticated investors free of charge, directly to our extensive investor list, via all major research aggregation platforms including, Bloomberg, FactSet, Thompson Reuters, and S&P Capital IQ, as well as via this website
We are pleased to partner with the leading research delivery platform Research Tree, broadening our distribution reach to include Research Tree’s extensive high net worth investor base.
Values
& ESG
1% Revenue Pledge
We operate with a long term and international outlook which are pre-requisites for success in the mining sector. Our company is built on the following guiding principles:
Stewardship – Our firm is entirely owned by its partners and we take direct ownership of everything we do
Excellence – We leverage our experience, sector expertise and energy to deliver best in class results
Respect – We respect those we work with and those we work for
Value Creation – We seek to deliver advice and transactions that add value to our clients, unrestricted by time horizons and geographies
Integrity – We act fairly and ethically in all we do
Collaboration – We bring a collaborative, partnership approach alongside our clients and other advisers to deliver the best outcomes
ESG – We seek to work with companies that share our desire to operate to the highest standards of environmental, social and corporate governance
Tamesis commits 1% of all revenues to charitable causes with areas of focus including the environment, education and social mobility.
Many of our clients share our passion for the transformation of local economies in developing communities. Like us, they see the natural resources sector as an opportunity to deliver positive change through high impact CSR initiatives out there in the field. Where we possible we seek to partner directly with clients on major projects.
Other revenues are shared with long term charity partners, currently Solar Aid, Eden Reforestation Projects and The Prince’s Trust.
Eden Reforestation Projects reduces extreme poverty and restores healthy forests by employing local people to plant millions of trees every year. Eden estimates a cost of US$0.10 per tree planted, and has to date planted more than 583 million trees around the world in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Haiti, Indonesia and Mozambique. To learn more please visit edenprojects.org
SolarAid is a UK based, international charity that combats poverty and climate change. Through its social enterprise, SunnyMoney, they are working with entrepreneurs, schools and clinics to distribute solar lights to people living without electricity in Zambia in Malawi. To learn more please visit https://solar-aid.org/
The Prince’s Trust is a youth charity that helps young people aged 11 to 30 get into jobs, education and training. The Prince’s Trust works with delivery partners across the UK to offer hundreds of free courses, grants and mentoring opportunities to inspire young people to build their confidence and start a career. To learn more please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk
