Opportunity Origination
Finding and assembling opportunities before they are investable.
Sand Corporation
We structure real estate opportunities that can’t move alone.
We bring together the assets, capital, capabilities and relationships needed to unlock value held back by fragmentation, misalignment or the wrong structure.
The Opportunity
Valuable opportunities remain constrained by structure, not by a lack of underlying value.
The value is often already there. What is missing is the alignment that allows the opportunity to move forward.
Constraints
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Fragmented assets
Disconnected capital
Missing capabilities
Misaligned stakeholders
What We Do
Identify, understand, align, structure, move.
SandCorp identifies opportunities where value is not yet being realised, understands what is preventing that opportunity from progressing, aligns the parties, capital and capabilities required, structures the commercial and partnership architecture needed, and helps move the opportunity toward execution.
- 01Identify
- 02Understand
- 03Align
- 04Structure
- 05Move
How We Work
How an opportunity moves from potential to execution
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Opportunity
A potential opportunity enters the SandCorp network.
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Diagnosis
Understand the opportunity, where the value lies and what is preventing progress.
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Alignment
Identify the parties, capabilities and resources required.
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Structuring
Develop the commercial and partnership architecture required.
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Decision
Test the opportunity against its commercial, technical and strategic realities.
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Execution
Where viable, enable the relevant parties to move forward, with SandCorp participating according to its role.
Where We Create Value
Value is rarely missing. More often it is unassembled, untested or unstructured. We work at the points where the right structure turns latent value into an opportunity that can be funded, delivered and shared.
Five points where structure changes the outcome
Feasibility & Diligence
Testing whether an opportunity is commercially and technically sound.
Transaction Structuring
Building the legal and commercial architecture that carries a deal to execution.
Partnership Formation
Aligning the parties, roles and governance a structure needs to hold.
Participation
SandCorp holds a stake in the value it helps create, where appropriate.
Proof of Approach
Structure creates momentum
Site assembly for a large-scale mixed-use concept, still in the land-acquisition stage.
- Category
- Opportunity Origination
- Structure
- Site assembly
- Stage
- Land acquisition
The Network
SandCorp works alongside landowners, capital providers, developers and specialists across the real estate ecosystem to move opportunities forward.
The right people at the table
About
The Observation
There are valuable real estate opportunities where the parties, capabilities, and resources required to move an opportunity forward exist, but are not naturally coming together.
The Role
Identify the opportunity, understand what is preventing it from moving, bring the relevant parties to the table, and help create the architecture through which they can work together.
The People
Richard Sichangi
Chief Executive Officer
Heinz Mwamburi
Real Estate Development Principal
Where we're headed
To become East Africa's leading structuring platform, the firm that landowners, capital providers, and developers call first to turn underused assets into landmark ventures.
An ambition, not a description of SandCorp's current position.