Welcome to BBE
At BBE our goal is to provide creative advice and tailored deal execution for clients within our industry focus areas. Combining exceptional technical expertise, significant experience in implementing innovative, client-specific structures and access to our extensive network of institutional relationships, we are dedicated to helping our clients achieve their strategic goals, whilst our expert sector analysts are on hand to provide unmatched insight into the market, valuations and outlooks for businesses. We are proud to offer each and every client close attention regardless of the size of the deal or the number of engagements in our pipeline.
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Our Services
Capital Raising
Whether your goal is to fund corporate growth, finance an acquisition, complete a management buyout, refinance an existing lender or consolidate debt, BBE Capital can help.
Infrastructure Advisory
BBE also specializes in seeking out infrastructure and energy project opportunities for Chinese investors, evaluating the projects, and matching up Chinese SOE's and other financiers to build the projects on an EPC+F basis. BBE's infrastructure team has particular expertise in renewable energy projects and has to date installed more solar power in North America than anyone else.
Project Evaluation
BBE's Project Evaluation services are formal investigations and decision processes designed to help you assess your project and financial and strategic options and create a course of action to enhance your project's value, or maximise potential proceeds from an investment or sale.
Sale Advisory
The BBE team has extensive experience in sell-side advisory, from the sale of private and family-owned projects to corporate and private equity fund divestitures. Having an extensive network with Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), BBE specializes in seeking out project opportunities for Chinese investors and matching up potential financiers.
Acquisition Advisory
BBE's merger and acquisition consulting services include helping clients develop and refine their acquisition criteria, identifying potential target companies, engaging prospective targets, and negotiating and structuring a deal that seeks to meet the value expectations of all parties involved.
About us
Who we are
We are a team of exceptional partners leveraging on significant relationships to monetise opportunities, grow businesses and close financial transactions. We have extensive sector knowledge, enhanced from a network of industry experts and working successfully in corporate financial services. We have real business experience and a proven track record in completing transactions. All of our Partners are experienced in corporate finance with a sound technical background, which ensures expert transactional practice and deal execution. They have a wealth of cross-border transactional practice as entrepreneurs who have owned, run and sold their own businesses.
What we do
BBE is a leading corporate finance advisor, delivering strategic advice and solutions focused on being a significant financier and provider of capital-raising services. BBE provides mergers and acquisitions advisory and related services to its clients on some of their most important strategic decisions and transactions. BBE provides advice on financial transactions, M&A, equity and debt fundraising. Our deals are primarily cross-border with a China focus. We specialise in advising North American and European company owners who want to sell their hard assets or companies to mainland Chinese investors.
Our Team
John Nevado
John is the New York Partner of BBE Capital. He focuses on the luxury hospitality industry, but also the impact, sustainability and tech sectors. He also runs Nevado Roses, his agriculture business based in South America, a leader in its field employing 750 people with sales in 30+ countries and with blue chip clients including Whole Foods, Marks & Spencer and COOP Switzerland. John was active on the global board for the horticulture industry, Union Fleurs for a couple of years, serving also as their International Ambassador, and he was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2006. John is also active as an Advisor to Align17, partially owned by UBS, a platform for Family Offices to invest in impact and serves on several corporate boards within the fields of agriculture, breeding, automated flower delivery. He also serves on a number of non-profit boards engaged in the fight against food injustice, HIV/Aids-documentation, and also on the board of a prestigious school in the Hamptons, NY. John studied both at the University of Stockholm, and Johns Hopkins University. jnevado@bbe.group
Matt Clearfield
Matthew is a multi-award winning executive with more than fifteen years of experience in Asia and is an Associate Partner of BBE Capital, based in Guangzhou. He was formerly the Associate Director of Natural Resources for Bank of China International, where he specialized in cross border transactions in the mining, infrastructure and energy industries. In 2012, he co-founded Elaixin Holdings, a financial advisory firm, where he advised clients on structuring outbound Chinese investment. From 2017-2019 he served as the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HNA Logistics Group (副监事长), and on the Board of HNA Innovation Ventures, a venture capital fund under one of China's largest global conglomerates. In addition to China, Matthew has extensive investment and management experience in Mongolia, where he has established or funded multiple businesses in the resources, F&B and retail industries. He has lived in China since 2004 and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. mclearfield@bbe.group
Our Clients
Our clients are located across the world and include businesses, private investors, private individuals, and families. We work on a full range of transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, spin-offs, divestitures, and other restructurings. We work closely with our clients throughout the process to identify optimal transaction partners as well as structure and negotiate the transaction.
- Family Offices: We provide comprehensive, transaction-oriented corporate finance advice. Our services address the range of financing and M&A requirements of companies and financial sponsors at all stages of the corporate development journey.
- Private Equity Funds: Our unique access allows us to maximise value for private equity funds by matching businesses with the optimal acquirer with synergies and expertise in the sector of interest.
- Sovereign Wealth Funds: We work closely with the largest sovereign wealth funds globally sourcing opportunities and best in the class local co-investors and general managers to suit their investment requirements.
- Corporate Clients: Assist clients expand their businesses into new markets, raise finance, acquire new businesses and maximise their exit valuation. By providing access to new institutional investors, companies may continue to grow with reasonable capital costs and continue to manage their businesses.
Our Partners
BBE Capital's partners are experienced corporate finance professionals with backgrounds at leading investment banks. Our partners have worked across the globe including the US, Asia and the Middle East with significant close professional relationships with the largest funds and corporates in the world. This allows us to offer a dedicated personal service with full project management. Combining this with a tailored sale strategy, presentational expertise and comprehensive buyer sourcing techniques, BBE offers an exceptional level of service.
Our Focus
We focus on the industrials, business services, financial and consumer sectors, providing direct access to capital in addition to advice. BBE provides M&A advisory and capital raising services to entrepreneurs, companies and financial institutions. Having an extensive network with Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), BBE specializes in seeking out project opportunities for Chinese investors, evaluating projects, and matching up potential Chinese financiers. BBE is dedicated to our larger clients, specialising in lead advisory and transaction support, handling hard asset or company sales typically falling into the £50m – £250m value range. Our team possess over 50 years of combined M&A experience and has handled hundreds of company sale transactions in the M&A mid-market.