Private Equity Advisory & Intelligence

The corridor is open. The information isn't.

Le corridor est ouvert. L'information ne l'est pas.

Ayan Partners is a boutique advisory and intelligence practice on the Europe–zone UEMOA corridor. We prepare companies for institutional capital, and we give investors the ground-level read a screen will never give them.

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≈ 5 500 km · one corridor

Hamburg 53°33′N 9°59′E

Abidjan 5°21′N 4°01′W

The practice

A transaction has two ends. We are retained at both.

On the investor side, mandates cover manager diligence, deal-level sector research, and the committee documentation that carries a recommendation through to approval. On the company side, they cover what a first institutional round demands: SYSCOHADA accounts that reconcile, a plan that withstands questioning, and a management team able to defend both unassisted.

The corridor is short of neither capital nor businesses. It is short of the connective work that makes the two legible to each other — accounts presented the way an allocator reads them, diligence conducted to fiduciary standard, and documents drafted to what a committee expects to receive. That work is the practice.

Engagements are conducted in French and in English, under OHADA convention and the same reporting norms an allocator would apply to any other market. We do not grade the region on a curve.

What we do

Five service lines

For companies

PE Readiness Advisory

We take a founder-led business through what an investor will actually ask for: clean SYSCOHADA accounts, a plan that holds up under questioning, a working data room, and a management team that can sit through a two-hour session without improvising.

For managers

LP Memo Ghost-Writing

Investment committee papers and LP-facing letters written to institutional standard, in French or English. You bring the position and the numbers. We build the argument and the document.

For investors

Sector Intelligence Briefs

Research on zone UEMOA sectors at deal level: who owns what, who is genuinely buying, where the last transactions cleared and why. Written as a brief you can put in front of a committee, not a slide deck.

For allocators

GP Credibility Check

Before you commit, an independent read on a manager: track record, team stability, and how the reported performance was actually produced. Delivered with the questions we would ask next.

For teams

Investor Readiness Workshop

A working session with management and the finance team. One day, run in the room, ending with a written list of what has to be fixed before a raise and who owns each item.

How we work

Two languages, one standard

Everything we produce works in French and in English, because the deal does. Nothing is translated as an afterthought.

The person you met runs the work

Engagements are small and senior by design. There is no team behind the curtain and no handover after the first meeting.

Your data stays yours

Client information, manager and investor names, and deal terms never go into third-party tools. Our internal workflows run on anonymised material only.