Bryanston Resources
Project Management in Johannesburg

Bryanstons commodity consulting services and investment management are designed to help their clients create value including strategic advisory, principal investment and management, project development and product marketing. Bryanston is a commodity consulting firm offering a comprehensive range of advisory services in the field of natural resources, copper, ferroalloys, coal, metals and mining with a focus on iron ore, power and renewables, chemicals, particularly for oil and gas, zinc and aluminium industries.

Bryanston is an active Private Equity and Venture Capital investor with a successful investment track record, mainly in resource productivity technologies. We also offer capital services and co-invest alongside third-party investors. Set up and participated in investment fund for leading platinum producer focused on high-tech platinum group metal applications. Set-up and management of a new family office for Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments. Bryanston originates unique investment opportunities through its network spanning emerging markets, natural resources, and industrial goods and technologies applied to these industries. Bryanston follows a rigorous due diligence process leveraging a unique bench of industry experts able to assess every step of the value-chain, and provide local expertise for almost every context. We bring this expertise across sectors to our corporate, investment company, and family-owned business clients. Bryanston offers a structured approach to address critical growth and efficiency topics. Using our extensive experience, we quickly identify key value levers and quantify the potential NPV to bring projects/businesses up to world-class benchmarks. Our hands-on approach and unique staffing model allow us to embed experts to get the job done. Bryanston can be a partner on eye-level for business owners and investors, by taking a stake in, as well as delivering on restructuring and turnaround cases. For distressed businesses, this implies a smaller financial burden during the turnaround phase. For the business owners, this means our incentives are fully aligned. Bryanston offers support to originate investors, co-ordinate the process professionally, ensuring consistent messaging and hygienic document control, enabling rapid execution of transactions with maximum benefit to parties. There are significant challenges in emerging markets for their incumbent industries: smelting in South Africa is one example. In emerging energy sectors and developing countries, there is a distinct lack of reliable power supply and consistent support for energy needs. A prominent family office approached Bryanston to support the set-up of a mining fund. Bryanston successfully led the organizational restructuring of a CIS agribusiness to reduce costs, lean down the business and improve decision-making. Bryanston Resources explores the sustainability of the lithium story and the viability of investment options given the recent surge in lithium prices and company valuations over the past months.