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ABOUT US
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MISSION & PHILOSOPHY
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THE SOURCE
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LONDON
CORPORATE FINANCE
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NEW YORK
REAL ESTATE
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TEL AVIV
MANAGEMENT
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MATAR NETWORK
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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RELATIONSHIPS
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ADVANCED EQUITIES
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CFM MONACO
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CONTACT
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3. ABOUT US
Matar Capital Advisors Ltd., founded in 2003 as a diversified investment firm, is headquartered in Tel
Aviv, Israel, with a presence in Europe, Asia and the USA, providing corporate finance, strategic
advisory, equity partnering and alternative asset management solutions to leading investors,
shareholders and companies in various areas. Our activities embrace a wide range of sectors, with a
particular focus on high technology, industry, energy, resources, financial services and real estate.
Thanks to our extensive relationships cultivated across the years and our unique positioning and
approach in the market, we are working hand in hand with leading private equity and venture capital
funds, holding groups, financial institutions and corporate investors Internationally.
Our unique global network, combined with our experience and broad expertise in all aspects of
corporate finance and investment strategy, oers international access with local capabilities to enable
our partners and clients to achieve their financial and strategic goals, in an ever evolving global
economy.
Matar Capital Advisors specializes in cross-border transactions, ranging from MA, buyouts,
divestments, private placements, IPOs and strategic moves. Always working with shareholders and
executive managements as partners or gatekeepers, with a clear objective of implementing goals, and
making them last.
Our core values are based on discretion, integrity, insight, eficiency, creativity, and above all dedication
to achieving success for our clients. Our global presence enables local and international players to
interact through us and achieve their business objectives, elegantly and eficiently.
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4. MISSION PHILOSOPHY
Matar Capital Advisors MISSION is to leverage your vision from feasibility to business strategy, from
business strategy to implementation, from local to a global presence in the international marketplace
and help you capitalize on emerging and proprietary investment opportunities.
Matar Capital Advisors PHILOSOPHY is to capitalize on our MISSION by way of three dierentiating
and value enhancing factors for our clients:
INVESTMENT HUB UNBIASED ADVICE
Matar Capital Advisors operates through Our investment advisory is delivered without
its Matar Network as an “investment consideration from outside sponsors or sources
Hub” imparting investment advice as guaranteeing independence and the best interest of
well as sharing ideas, investment our clients.
opportunities and information from and
to all of its clients. The firm has long
standing relationships with leading asset TAILOR MADE SOLUTIONS
managers, venture capitalists, We recognize that each client has a unique profile,
investment bankers, private funds and business culture and dierent objectives. We
family ofices, with whom we act as develop tailored financing strategies for each client
venture partners and where there is a and select the most appropriate tools to implement
mutual exchange of knowledge for the those strategies based upon the client needs rather
benefit of the firm and all our clients. than compensation or firm afiliation.
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5. THE SOURCE
BUSINESS RAINMAKING
Since ancient times, rain is a blessing for all living creatures on earth,
enabling life and prosperity. Rainmaking is an ancient craft, practiced by the
few gifted with the rare ability to predict and provoke the fall of the
precious pearls from the sky.
We are business rainmakers, harnessing our skills to make things happen by
turning objectives to achievements.
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6. CORPORATE FINANCE
Matar Capital Advisors operates in all stages of equity transactions including Private Equity, Buyouts, Pre-IPO,
IPO, Secondary Oerings and MA. From growth capital to exit or financial development we help our clients
target, capitalize and invest in proprietary and emerging opportunities in line with their strategic needs. We
create these investment opportunities by virtue of sourcing adequate, criteria oriented transactions and long
term partnerships for all facets of deal making. Our approach fuses rigorous business analysis and due
diligence with our insider's global understanding of local business cultures and markets. The focus of our
activity is mainly on high growth industries like financial services, Energy, Telecom and Media, High Technology,
Resources and Infrastructure … Matar Capital Advisors will target and structure specific deals globally or help
you attain and access new markets, industries or geographies that need your attention. Allowing you to
concentrate on what is important; realizing transactions and creating value.
PRIVATE EQUITY PLACEMENT MERGERS ACQUISITIONS
Matar Capital Advisors focuses on Matar Capital Advisors caters to MA needs in order to source the
private equity fund placements and right acquisition targets and or partnerships catering to the needs
private equity fund and portfolio of an ever more demanding clientele:
transactions. The firm takes on a • Sell-Side / Buy-Side Advisory
limited number of transactions in • Financing
order to work on a tailored made • Strategic Partnerships / Joint Ventures
basis with each specific client. • Portfolio Restructuring
Matar Capital Advisors acts as partner • Exit Strategies
to investors, funds and shareholders
wishing to manage their private equity IPO OVERSIGHT
portfolio actively by selling, acquiring
or restructuring their holdings. Matar Matar Capital Advisors organizes and oversee the whole IPO
Capital Advisors structures and co- process from the decision until the oering. We enable our clients
ordinates the whole process, Assisting to be better prepared for the first impression in order to generate
investors to achieve best value for stronger appeal and value and more competition amongst the
their equity assets eficiently and required advisors, subsequently leading to a better and more cost
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discreetly. eficient service.
7. REAL ESTATE
Matar Capital Advisors’ Real Estate practice caters to its clients needs in order to create value and
source the right investment targets, strategy and partnerships in line with their development needs.
Matar Capital Advisors is a major gateway for International Investors wishing to invest in the global
property market.
Matar Capital Advisors’ international network of partnerships positions it to source and sell proprietary
investment opportunities all over the globe in all types of real estate, from yield generating and
greenfield development projects to joint ventures. From Western and Eastern Europe to the USA, Asia
and Israel, our network allows us to establish value added relationships to the benefit of our clients.
Our services include:
Sell Side / Buy Side Origination and Advisory
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Financing
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Strategic Partnerships and Joint Ventures
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Portfolio Restructuring
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Exit Strategies
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8. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
MICHEL HABIB, Founder, Managing Partner
Mr. HABIB is the Founder of Matar Capital Advisors. He is also a Venture
Partner with Agate Medical Investments LP. Mr. Habib serves as observer on
the boards of Brainsgate Ltd. and Petratec Ltd. and as advisory board member
of Sixx Partners. Prior to founding Matar Capital Advisors, Michel worked for
close to 4 years as Elron Electronic Industries' Business Development Director.
At Elron Mr. Habib implemented more than a dozen investments, MA’s and
represented the company on numerous Boards. Prior to Elron, he established
and managed the investment banking activity of ING Barings in Israel and
served as Vice President Investment Banking at Cukierman Co.. During the
90's Mr. Habib served as diplomat in Israel's foreign service, as the Economic
Consul to New England in Boston, and earlier as Commercial Attaché to South
Korea in Seoul. As Captain (Res.) in the IDF Navy he was involved in the
development of advanced Naval systems for the Navy's elite unit. Mr. Habib
holds an Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology. He is a graduate from the foreign service cadet school, and
member of the Technion Alumni quot;100 Clubquot;.
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9. MANAGEMENT
MICHAEL ATZMON, Advisory Board Member
Mr. ATZMON was the Founding Partner of SIXX Partners which later merged its activities with Matar Capital Advisors. Prior to
joining Matar Capital Advisors Michael managed the International activities of SIXX Partners. Michael currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Eloa Invest, an investment firm focused on Asia Pacific and on the Belgian Luxembourg – Israel Chamber
of Commerce. Michael is also the treasurer of ORT Belgium an NGO fostering education for underprivileged children. Prior to
SIXX Partners Michael worked as Co-Managing Director at Lion Venture Partners where he was also responsible for the
creation of the afiliation with the Halman Aldubi Group, at that time the largest private provident funds group in Israel.
Michael also worked at Catapult, a business development as Development Manager. Michael holds BBA in Business
Administration form the United Business Institutes, Brussels, a BA from the University of Wales, UK and has followed executive
MBA Classes at the United Business Institutes.
BENOIT FLAMMANG, Venture Partner
Mr. FLAMMANG was a Partner at SIXX Partners which later merged with Matar Capital Advisors. Benoit manages the American
operations at Matar Capital Advisors. Benoit has over 20 years of strategic and international business and financial
development expertise. He started his career at IBM Belgium, moved as international comptroller for a publicly traded
international group to the US, restructured a money-losing company in Raleigh North Carolina. Benoit later moved to New
York to become a serial entrepreneur and an independent strategic advisor. He was a longtime advisor for Foreign Trade to
the Belgian Government. Ben received his B.A. in Applied Economics from ICHEC in Brussels.
DR. SIMONE BOTTI, Venture Partner
Mr. BOTTI was a Vice President at SIXX Partners. Simone regularly acts as a consultant for major European and Asian
governments and financial institutions in matters of technology transfer and technology financing. Prior to Matar Capital
Advisors Simone was the Founder and Managing Partner at Altiora Ventures a Corporate Finance and Investment Banking
Boutique specialized in cross border MA and international business development. Simone is Councilor of the Italian-Israeli
Chamber of Commerce and a founding member of the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity has organized a
number of high-level conferences on technology transfer between Israel and several European and Asian countries. Simone is
also Senior Consultant to the Israel Structural Proteomics Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a member of the
Biophysical Society. Dr. Botti holds a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and received the quot;Dov Eladquot; award in
Structural Biology.
FREDERIC FURCAJG, Senior Vice President
Mr. FURCAJG was a Vice President at SIXX Partners. Frederic is active in the Asian division of Matar Capital Advisors. Currently
the president of Eloa Invest a corporate finance advisory firm specialized in the Asia Pacific region. Msc. from Polytechnique-
France and Msc. from Telecom Paris, Frederic is specialized in corporate finance; 17 years of international experience in high-
tech industry technological, business and financial intelligence. Special advisor for large corporations, private equity funds
and investment banks, Frederic contributes an unparalleled international network in the public and corporate spheres, and
focuses more particularly on deal sourcing, hands-on strategic assistance to invest companies, and investments exits. His
areas of expertise include telecom, knowledge/internet industries, software, energy and Asian related joint-ventures.
RAPHAEL WITTENBERG, Senior Relationship Manager
Mr. WITTENBERG is a serial entrepreneur with a strong experience in International cross border business development.
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Raphael has a long term expertise in the toy and textile industries. He is a principal in a number of production and trade
companies operating between Asia and Europe. Raphael developed a number of production groups in China which he later
successfully exited throughout the years. Raphael owns a number of patents and proprietary technologies in the Cleantech
and online gaming industries. Raphael holds an LLP from UCL, in the UK where he studied law.
10. MATAR NETWORK
The MATAR Network is a global partnership that unifies top tier business persons in the fields of
business development, private equity, real estate, investment banking and tax structuring. With the aim
of cultivating long-term, mutually beneficial relations, that will lead to the eficient development of the
respective members businesses.
Matar Capital Advisors was founded on the philosophy of creating strategic partnerships with key
business leaders ranging from investment bankers to lawyers to executive management. By forming
strategic alliances with these business leaders and other companies, Matar Capital Advisors can provide
a host of key strategic financial services that are vital to any organization and partner with the afiliate
members of the network.
The MATAR Network strengthens Matar Capital Advisors international footprint allowing it to build
strong bridges throughout the globe. This eliminates the cultural and knowledge barriers that many
companies endure when implementing their global development plan.
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11. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
MARKET PENETRATION
When a client seeks entry into a specific market, Matar Capital Advisors conducts a comprehensive
market study in order to identify potential targets utilizing local marketing tools and know how in order
to craft a relevant value proposition. Subsequently we analyze together with our clients - based on
legal, technical, practical and financial aspects whether they need to pursue the development of the
opportunity and/or the implementation thereof.
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Joint Venture
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Strategic Partnerships and Alliances
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Consortium formation
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SPECIFIC ACCOUNT PENETRATION
By leveraging the relations within the MATAR Network we benefit from privileged access to key people
within international companies and organizations. We simplify the task of our clients who are otherwise
faced with a maze of contacts when attempting specific targeting. Our proprietary access and methods
allow us to build solid bridges crossing all barriers of entry and catering for strong, long term mutually
beneficial business platforms.
Based on its experience, Matar Capital Advisors has developed its own methodology that enables it to
quickly evaluate the necessary steps needed to access markets and geographies, to adapt to dierent
business models and achieve swift feedback.
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12. RELATIONSHIPS
We enjoy proprietary access to some of the top tier firms in the world, made
available to our clients and partners.
These are just some of the groups with whom we enjoy strong and long
term relationships:
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13. PARTNERSHIPS
VC INVESTMENT BANKING
Matar Capital Advisors is the exclusive partner and representative of Advanced Equities in Israel.
Advanced Equities is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Advanced Equities Financial Corp. (AEFC), a diversified
financial services organization. In addition to its activities in the venture capital marketplace, AEFC
subsidiaries are engaged in
providing a comprehensive platform of securities and investment management services to a substantial
and diverse client base of emerging growth companies, institutional investors, and individual investors.
Advanced Equities is currently administering more than $45 billion in client assets. The global footprint
of Advanced Equities Financial Corp. spans from its headquarters in the USA to Europe, the Middle East
and Israel.
In 2006, AEFC was ranked number 11 overall on Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing privately
held companies in America and the No. 1 brokerage firm.
Recent activities have created a corporate finance void between a company’s venture capital funding and
the amount of capital required to build a competitive position and become a successful global
corporation which goes on to an IPO or strategically acquired. Advanced Equities, Inc. has stepped into
that void as a venture capital investment bank specializing in late stage private equity finance for the U.S.
technology sector. We believe we have an impressive track record for successfully financing late-stage
VC-backed companies. As a strategic partner with some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we
share the goal of building and realizing maximum shareholder value. www.advancedequities.com
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14. PARTNERSHIPS
PRIVATE BANKING
Matar Capital Advisors is the exclusive partner and representative of CFM Monaco in Israel.
Founded in 1922, CFM Monaco is not only the oldest bank in Monaco but very much its
flagship financial institution .
Its dominant share of the market and its deep historical roots enable it to play a major part
in the economic life of the Principality: support of the industrial and business network,
infrastructure projects and sponsorship of a number of key local institutions such as the
Monte-Carlo Ballet. Apart from its natural proximity to Monaco’s residents, CFM Monaco
provides international banking services to o-shore customers spread all over the globe.
Customers are assigned a personal adviser to assist them in setting and achieving their
goals, regardless of their knowledge of financial markets, investment profile, investment
term or particular needs. In order to present tailor-made solutions, the personal adviser
has access to all the Bank's products and services as well as its specialist units.
www.cfm.mc
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