You built something worth saving.A hard patch does not undo that.
A confidential, first-round assessment for established South African companies under real pressure. Growth capital paired with operators who step in and fix the problem alongside you.
The earlier the right conversation begins, the more options remain available. Start with a confidential assessment of the situation and the path forward.
Clear about what we are and what we are not.
So there is no confusion before you submit. We are a private growth-capital and turnaround partner, not a finance product.
- Growth capital paired with hands-on operators
- A confidential, first-round assessment of your situation
- Principals who take real operational involvement
- Focused on established South African businesses
- A bank or a lender
- Invoice factoring or a finance product
- Formal business rescue
- A guarantee of funding or any particular outcome
If one of these is your reality, the conversation is worth having.
Every business is different. These are the pressures that most often bring a serious company to this page.
You can see the month salaries or a critical payment won't clear.
Obligations that need to be engaged and restructured, not ignored.
A lender that has moved from supportive to watchful.
Deadlock, misalignment, or a shareholding change that needs resolving.
Good position, but margins or execution slipping.
A strong opportunity the business cannot fund on its own.
These are some of the cases we have supported. In special circumstances, we support businesses that fall outside the criteria.
Capital alone rarely fixes a good business under pressure. The right operators, moving fast, do.
What's in the bank, what must be paid in 7, 14 and 30 days, and where cash is trapped before anything else.
A focused change burst on pricing, collections, capacity and cost to stabilise quickly, not slowly.
Funding directed precisely, alongside people who take real operational involvement.
Four steps. One straight answer.
You are never left wondering what comes next. This is the whole path from submission to a way forward.
A short, confidential submission, the situation and the numbers that matter.
Reviewed by a person on the LMNRY team, never published or shared.
A straight read on whether it is a fit, and where the real pressure sits.
If it fits, we set out the plan. If not, we tell you directly and it closes.
We are selective and honest about it.
Being straight about what we take on saves everyone time. Here is where we can usually help, and where we cannot.
Established businesses with real underlying value.
- An established South African business, not a start-up
- Genuine underlying value, good position or people
- A fixable engine: pricing, overhead or working capital
- Willing to move fast and act on the plan
Where our model is unlikely to add value.
- Pure property, retail, hospitality, agriculture or mining
- Multi-year transformations with no near-term path
- Businesses dependent on a single consultant to survive
- Over-secured, with a lender intent on liquidation
What a business we like tends to look like.
No single box has to be ticked. But the businesses we can help most usually share several of these traits.
Owners with a clear vision, solving a real problem and willing to see it through.
Sets its own pricing rather than taking whatever the market dictates.
A big fish in a defined pond, real share of a niche it understands.
Runs on, or genuinely benefits from, real technology and integration.
Tangible or asset-backed strength beneath the pressure, something solid to build on.
A clear line of sight to generating durable, long-term stakeholder value.
A distinctive proposition, or intellectual property that is hard to copy.
The earlier the conversation, the more options remain.
Nothing here is about pressure. It is simply how these situations tend to work, acting sooner keeps more paths open.
Room to restructure, reprice and bring in capital calmly.
Creditors engaging, runway tightening, but a plan still lands.
Days to payroll, lender turning, fewer levers left to pull.
Once liquidation is in motion, value is hard to recover.
The best time to start the conversation is before you feel you have to.
Keep the good. Strip what's broken. Reposition the business.
The pattern behind principals who have bought, built and sold companies across South Africa and the UK.
Experienced operators and straight with you, either way.
A deal-maker and turnaround specialist with a long record of buying, building and selling companies, including public listings in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and taking operational control where a situation demands it.
Commercial judgement and structuring discipline, focused on separating businesses with genuine underlying value from those without, and being straight with founders and boards about which is which.
You do not have to decide anything today.
You only have to start the conversation.
A confidential, no-obligation assessment, reviewed by a person, and answered within 48 hours.
Submit your case & request assessmentDirect answers, before you submit.
- Is this an application for credit?
- No. It is a request for a confidential first-round review by our assessment team.
- How long does a first-round review take?
- You will hear from us within 48 hours of a completed submission.
- Will you publish or share our information?
- No. Your submission is reviewed only by the LMNRY team and is treated as confidential.
- What if you decline?
- You will hear from us directly, and the matter closes. Nothing further follows.