About Us
Every transaction we advise carries not only numbers, but stories of generations, legacies, and futures projected toward new horizons. That is what we do: we turn complexity into clarity, risk into strategy, and uncertainty into continuity.
What Sets Us Apart
“You are not hiring a service. You are choosing who will stand beside you at the most important moment of your journey.”
At Ivory Capital, every project is unique and every solution is born from deep listening, not from a ready-made answer.
Specialization in Family-Owned Companies
We understand that a family-owned company is not simply a business with relatives as shareholders. It is a complex web of relationships, values, and histories that must be respected and strategically organized so the business can endure across generations.
Active Presence: From Diagnosis to Closing
More than reports, we deliver execution. We follow every phase of the project, integrating shareholder reorganizations, succession plans, and M&A transactions under one strategic vision, ensuring full alignment between the defined strategy and the final outcome.
Independence, Ethics, and Absence of Conflicts of Interest
Our work is guided by complete impartiality and exclusive dedication to defending your interests. We operate with strict independence, ensuring advisory free from external agendas and fully aligned with your objectives. Our commitment is singular and absolute: delivering results that safeguard the solidity of your wealth and the harmony of family interests.
Consolidated Executive Practice: Beyond Theory
Our partners bring the perspective of those who have held decision-making positions in critical operations. From firsthand experience, we understand the pressure inherent to highly complex transactions, the sensitive challenges of succession processes, and the responsibility of managing assets of immeasurable value. This background enables us to offer advice that goes beyond theory, grounded in technical acuity and a real understanding of each business context.
Strategic Advisory
Value Creation
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Who Ivory Capital Serves
We do not serve every type of company.
We serve those at the right moment for a high-impact strategic partnership.
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Legacy Preservation and Intergenerational Stability
Building a solid business legacy is an extraordinary achievement. However, market data shows that 70% of family organizations do not survive the first succession, a figure that mostly reflects the lack of a structured process, not a lack of competence among successors. We work on the strategic organization of this transition, ensuring business continuity and the integrity of the family legacy.
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Capital Raising and Structured Expansion
Expansion without governance is one of the main sources of instability in high-growth organizations. If your objective is to attract external investment, expand through acquisitions, or professionalize management for the next stage, prior structuring is mandatory. Ivory Capital provides the technical rigor needed to make your company’s growth sustainable, attractive to the market, and protected against operational risks.
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Value Maximization and Strategic Precision
A company’s maximum value is built during the preparation stage. Acting without the proper strategic rigor can cost between 30% and 50% of potential valuation. Ivory Capital focuses on strengthening and refining the structure before going to market, correcting inefficiencies and enhancing outcomes. It is this prior diligence that secures the best price and the necessary safety for a high-impact transaction.
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Shareholder Reorganization with Independence and Clarity
Diverging views among partners or generations are frequent corporate challenges whose hidden costs significantly exceed the immediate financial impact. Ivory Capital acts as an independent strategic facilitator, providing the neutrality required to mediate impasses. We translate highly complex scenarios into pragmatic decisions, ensuring the focus returns to value preservation and business continuity.
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Analytical Rigor and M&A Execution
The acquisition of an asset requires diligence that goes beyond a superficial analysis of numbers. Identifying the ideal target, conducting rigorous due diligence, and structuring the transaction with protective mechanisms are critical steps for investment success. Ivory Capital brings the experience of executives who have led these processes on both sides of the table, ensuring a balanced negotiation and secure integration.
How We Work
Every step of our process is designed to eliminate ambiguity and ensure you know exactly where you are and where you are going.
Results
in accumulated professional experience among the partners
Recommended by Leaders League for Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactions
Brazil in M&A — Transactional Track Record 2019/2020, by number of transactions
We were not looking for just a financial advisor. We needed someone who understood the weight of a decision we had spent a lifetime building. Ivory Capital brought clarity at a moment when everything seemed uncertain and helped us reach an outcome that, honestly, we did not think was possible.
João Kornely and Humberto Matesco
Founders of HBSIS Sistemas, acquired by AMBEV
At Linshalm Carrocerias, tradition was never an excuse for improvisation. For a family-owned company with more than 70 years of history to continue growing, we needed clarity: who decides, how decisions are made, and with which priorities.
Ivory Capital brought method and structure: it strengthened the governance of the family group, defined roles, and raised the rigor of decisions. We exchanged noise for alignment and intention for execution, with transparency, responsibility, and focus on what sustains growth.
It was a turning point. I recommend Ivory Capital to business families that want to professionalize with seriousness while preserving their essence and preparing for the future.
Leonardo Linshalm Kohler
CEO – Carrocerias Linshalm
Partners
Executives who have been in the decision-maker’s seat. That is the origin of Ivory Capital and what differentiates every advisory engagement.
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