Enabled IPO readiness
Restructured USD4bn across 24 facilities with 14 lenders.
Prepared a leading Middle Eastern airline for IPO.
Shaping vision into value.
Independent judgement that aligns priorities, shapes decisions and leaves organisations stronger.
About
Creating, growing and stabilising businesses. Building stronger organisations.
Challenge
Organisations operate in constantly evolving environments.
Priorities shift. Organisations grow. Markets change. New challenges emerge.
As objectives evolve, organisations do not always adapt at the same pace.
The expertise and perspectives needed to respond rarely sit in one place. They are often shaped by competing priorities and constraints.
Route forward
Achieving successful outcomes requires more than expertise alone.
Priorities compete. Constraints emerge. Decisions become harder. Opportunities are missed.
Achieving those outcomes begins with understanding what leadership is seeking to achieve and what may be preventing progress.
Reconciling divergent priorities and constraints creates direction, builds momentum and delivers tangible results.
Ascendiate
Delivering today’s objectives. Strengthening tomorrow’s organisation.
Ascendiate is an independent platform that transforms competing priorities into clear direction and momentum.
Its value lies not only in achieving today’s objectives, but also in building the organisational capability required to address tomorrow’s challenges.
Approach
Seeing beyond the immediate objective. Creating lasting organisational value.
Mandate
Every engagement begins with an immediate objective.
Meeting that objective is essential.
Initial objectives provide direction, but rarely define the full opportunity.
Opportunity
The greatest opportunities often lie beyond the original objective.
The immediate objective often becomes the finish line, rather than the starting point for creating wider organisational value.
Recognising opportunities is only the beginning. Turning them into lasting improvements is what strengthens the organisation.
Ascendiate
Capturing both requires the freedom to pursue the wider opportunity.
For Nicholas Zaklama, that freedom became the philosophy that led him to found Ascendiate.
Today, Ascendiate provides boards, investors and leadership teams with the space to step back, the objectivity to pursue the wider opportunity and the resolve to turn it into lasting value.
Nicholas Zaklama
Founder and Managing Director
Mandates
Trusted where outcomes matter most.
Creating, preserving and unlocking value.
Preserved business continuity
Directed a USD1.1bn restructuring and refinancing across 12 lenders.
Stabilised a publicly listed company throughout COVID-19.
Optimised hedging strategy
Delivered c.USD300m of fuel hedging savings.
Strengthened treasury capability for a leading Middle Eastern airline.
Achieved 20% portfolio growth
Expanded a publicly listed aircraft lessor’s portfolio by USD300m.
Structured 11 aircraft investments involving 8 customers and 7 lenders.
Improved cash collection by 70%
Accelerated cash collection by over 70%.
Transformed payment operations for an investment-grade enterprise.
Shaped a USD1.25bn takeover bid
Directed transaction structuring and risk evaluation for a private equity consortium.
Materially influenced the decision not to proceed.
Contact
Ascendiate welcomes the opportunity to discuss how it can help create, preserve or unlock value.
- Address
- Ascendiate Pte. Ltd.
22 Sin Ming Lane
#06-76 Midview City
Singapore 573969 - Telephone
- +65 6957 0175
- info@ascendiate.com