Fortrend can assist small-cap companies with their funding and capital raising requirements by offering a number of services:

1. Standby Subscription Facility
2. Introduction to off-shore institutions and investors
3. Placement of securities with offshore investors

 

Standby Subscription Facility

Fortrend is pleased to offer an innovation in financing for small-cap companies. 
 
Some of the key attributes are:

1. Raise capital on an as needs basis
2. No investment banking fees up front
3. Cost-effective legal structure to establish facility 
4. Easy to set up and administer
5. No prospectus or investor road show necessary
    

Some of the key benefits are:

1. No risk of under subscription, such as in a rights offering or secondary placement 
2. Less stock dilution when used on the back of share price strength 
3. Will increase liquidity in the market for the companies shares and increase investor awareness 
4. Gives negotiating power with creditors and business partners 
5. Leaves you and your team to run the company
   

Fortrend’s Standby Subscription Financing allows companies to issue “draw down” notices, which obligates Fortrend’s client (the investor) to buy shares based on your timing requirements.
 
Fortrend’s client (the investor) will be compensated for standing by to purchase the shares through a discount to the market price.
 
Fortrend’s institutional dealing desk will work closely with you, your company, and the investment community over the term of the facility. 
 
The facility has embedded mechanisms that align our interests and goals.  We are interested to see your company succeed and to see gradual share price appreciation without undue volatility.

 
Contact:   

 

 

Joe Forster	Chris Holly
Chief Executive Officer	Investment Banking
Fortrend Securities Level 42, 55 Collins Street Melbourne   Victoria   3000	Fortrend Securities Level 42, 55 Collins Street Melbourne   Victoria   3000
Phone : +613 9650 8400	Phone : +613 9650 8400
Email : jforster@fortrend.com.au	Email : cholly@fortrend.com.au

Joe Forster worked at Smith Barney Inc. as a research analyst in New York prior to moving to Australia in 1988 where he worked for the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.

 

Chris Holly is an investment banker in our Melbourne office and is responsible for developing the investment banking focusing on the capital needs of growing small companies in Australia and New Zealand.  Mr. Holly previously worked at Coopers & Lybrand, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs JBWere.

 

Fortrend Securities Inc. was established in 1982 in San Francisco, California to specialise in syndicating investment programs.   Fortrend is a fully licensed stock broker in the United States and a member of FINRA and SIPC.  In 1992, Joe Forster established Fortrend Securities Pty Ltd (AFSL 247261) to assist Australian investors in diversifying investment portfolios into industries and companies not available on the Australian Stock Exchange.

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