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Hong Kong · Zug · Seoul
FARAZAD INVESTMENTS – BOUTIQUE INVESTMENT HOUSE
Structured capital and cross-border deal execution for real estate, hospitality, energy and technology projects, with direct access to senior decision-makers.
- $5.61 BnAdvised & structured
- 27Selected transactions
- 4Continents
- 93%Success
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Raise capital
Debt, equity or structured financing for an acquisition, development or growth plan.
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For founders and sponsors with a proven model who want a co-investing partner.
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Divestitures, recapitalization and solutions for financially stressed assets.
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Boutique Investment House in Switzerland & Hong Kong
Farazad Investments (HK) operates as a boutique investment house, a deliberately different model from the full-service institutions that dominate global finance. Rather than spreading resources across every mandate type, the firm concentrates its expertise where it can add the most value: structured capital, real estate investment, and cross-border deal execution for clients who expect direct access to decision-makers, not a queue of intermediaries.
That boutique positioning is matched by a genuine global footprint. The firm operates from three anchor locations Hong Kong, Zug in Switzerland, and Seoul giving clients a single point of contact with visibility across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and beyond. It is this combination of scale and selectivity that defines the firm: large enough to structure complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions, small enough that every mandate receives senior-level attention.
As a boutique investment house, Farazad Investments (HK) works across a focused set of sectors real estate, hospitality, energy, green cement and technology rather than attempting to be a generalist across all of them. This sector discipline allows the firm's teams in each office to build genuine depth, and to bring pattern recognition from prior transactions into every new mandate. For clients evaluating who to work with on a complex capital raise or investment decision, that distinction matters.
A boutique investment house lives or dies on its judgment and its relationships, not the size of its balance sheet and it is judged, deal by deal, on outcomes. It is a model built deliberately, not by default: as a boutique investment house operating in Switzerland and beyond, the firm has consistently chosen depth over scale, and long-term client relationships over transaction volume.
Services
Structured Debt & Equity Solutions
Farazad Investments (HK) offers global access to capital and facilitates loan procurement for medium and large-scale industrial and commercial projects. Specializing in Acquisition, Investment, and Construction & Development, FI leverages its deep industry knowledge and strong global relationships with lenders to secure financing solutions tailored to each project’s unique needs.
At FI, our boutique financial house delivers a full spectrum of services, from identifying unique opportunities to crafting bespoke financial strategies for clients, specifically for M&A’s growth capital LBO’s, real estate developments, family offices, private equity funds, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and high-net-worth individuals.
Farazad Investments works with clients to identify and pursue strategic alternatives, devise strategies to enhance shareholder value, raise capital to meet growth objectives, and develop new ideas and deeper perspectives regarding individual companies and relevant industry sectors.
Large Structured Financing and Equity Solutions
- Large Loan Debt Placements
- Investment Sales and Capital Raising
- Recapitalization and Restructuring Services
- Distressed Debt Solutions
Boutique Investment House Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions (both Sell-Side and Buy-Side)
Solutions
Elevating Your Business
Project Funding Process Management
We offer impartial advice on the viability of proposed projects, then works with and guides clients through the full project funding process to ensure each project has the maximum potential to achieve successful third-party funding.
Equity Capital Markets Advice
Manages an active international advisory that takes pride in delivering differentiated and creative advisory and capital markets solutions to real estate projects, across developed, developing, and emerging markets.
Divestitures
- Private Placements
- Equity Capital Markets Advice
- Restructuring Advice
Corporate Advisory & Consultancy
Farazad Investments (HK) has successfully advised and structured projects valued at more than $5.6 Billion over the last eight years, despite the global downturn. Our consultation offers impartial advice on the viability of the proposed project, and then works with, and guides clients through the full project funding process to ensure the project has the maximum potential to achieve successful third party funding.
General Consulting on Successful Project Funding
- Management of the project funding process
- Document preparation including: Offer Memorandum, Business Plans, Financial Plan
- Preparation and Management of Funding Submissions
Entrepreneurs
Partnering with Entrepreneurs Our Joint-Venture Model
Some of the firm's most distinctive work happens not as an advisor, but as a partner. Farazad Investments (HK) actively seeks joint venture relationships with exceptional entrepreneurs and growth-stage founders businesses with a proven model, a credible path to scale, and a need for a capital partner who brings more than a cheque. In a joint venture structure, the firm co-invests alongside the entrepreneur rather than simply financing them from the outside.
That distinction shapes everything about how the relationship works: shared incentives, a seat at the table on major decisions, and access to the firm's broader network across real estate, hospitality and structured finance where relevant to the venture. This is not a fit for every business.
The firm looks for entrepreneurial leadership with a track record however early-stage of executing on a vision, and for opportunities where a co-investment structure genuinely accelerates growth rather than simply adding another stakeholder to the table.
Founders considering this route are encouraged to approach the firm directly with a clear articulation of the opportunity, the capital required, and what a partner beyond funding could meaningfully add. For the right entrepreneur, a joint-venture partnership with Farazad Investments (HK) offers something a conventional financing relationship cannot: a partner whose incentives are permanently aligned with the venture's success.
Our Guidelines:
- Alignment with our cultural values
- Proven track record or distinctive vision
- Demonstrated deal flow and profitability
- Meets underwriting standards for expected returns on deals
Compliance
Risk Management, AML & Compliance Standards
Every mandate Farazad Investments (HK) takes on is underpinned by a disciplined approach to risk management. Before capital is deployed or a structure is proposed, the firm's teams assess counterparty risk, jurisdictional exposure, and transaction specific factors that could affect an outcome work that happens well before terms are discussed with a client. This is not a compliance function bolted on at the end of a deal; it is built into how mandates are scoped from the outset.
The firm maintains anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorist financing compliance commitments consistent with the standards expected of an institution operating across Hong Kong and Switzerland two of the more tightly regulated financial centres globally. Regulatory alignment across these jurisdictions is treated as a baseline requirement, not a differentiator, because clients transacting at this level assume it as a given.
What clients notice in practice is how this discipline shapes the advice they receive: a recommendation to walk away from a mandate that does not meet the firm's risk threshold, a request for additional documentation before a structure is finalised, or a more conservative capital structure than a counterparty might propose elsewhere. Risk management, in this context, is not a constraint on ambition it is what allows the firm to operate confidently in complex, cross-border situations where the cost of getting compliance wrong is measured in more than reputation.
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Hong Kong · Zug · Seoul