Polaris Enterprises is an international boutique advisory firm committed to making a difference. Our reputation for excellence and our track record sets us apart. Our highly motivated team of excels in delivering bespoke and creative strategies to build value, and to assist in expansion across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. We achieve exceptional rewards to support your continued success. Our team specialises in upcoming, world changing frontier technologies, such as quantum computing, blockchain and (sovereign) AI, biotech and nanotech, advanced materials, and medical innovations. We recognise that every client and every transaction is unique.
The clients of Polaris Enterprises are primarily (retail) investors, fund managers, and listed companies.
OUR LEADERSHIP Team
Maurice Bakker
Managing director
Utrecht, Netherlands
Dennis Huizing
Managing Director
Berlin, Germany
Marcel de Boer
VP M&A and mediation
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Khaldoun Shehadeh
VP Debt Advisory
Bangkok, Thailand
Pallavi Paul
VP Marcom & Growth
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cengiz Korkmaz
Advisor blockchain
Istanbul, Türkiye
Anna Mallon
Advisor global expansion
Singapore & Amsterdam
Stephen Gray PhD
Advisor bio & nanotech
Utrecht, Netherlands
Alex Suma PhD
Advisor deep tech
Miami, USA
Marc Jager PhD
Advisor renewables
Groningen, Netherlands
OUR SERVICES
Portfolio management & fund assistance
Portfolio management for fund managers involves the strategic selection, monitoring, and adjustment of investments to achieve specific financial goals, aligned with the fund’s objectives. Our team can help you setup, including developing a fund thesis which outlines the investment philosophy, target assets, risk tolerance, and expected return profile. Polaris has experienced fund managers that know how to establish processes for researching opportunities, conducting due diligence, and making buy or sell decisions based on market analysis and performance metrics. Effective portfolio management requires ongoing assessment and rebalancing to maintain alignment with the fund’s strategy and market conditions. Another critical component is to geographically expand your reach into jurisdictions where your fund’s target technologies foster and grow.
RTO (Reversed Takeover/ reverse IPO)
Many of our clients seek expansion to the largest Western market of all, the USA. Polaris conceives and deploys strategies to ensure that European companies (often private) go public by acquiring a larger, US publicly listed company. Polaris is a hands-on company that also ensures proper creation, management and administration of SPVs such as PEGs to support the strategy at hand. This practice is sometimes seen as ‘contrary to the norm’ in Europe, since the smaller company is taking over the larger company. However, the experience of our team has ensured great success in this area.
Capital restructuring
Strengthening your company’s balance sheet in order to reduce financing costs, or in order to make your company more attractive to investors, is an often underestimated and underappreciated instrument. When you want to optimize you company’s capital structure this typically aims to improve financial stability, to manage financial risk, and/or to optimize your cost of capital (or weighted, WACC). Our team can lead you in a variety of settings, including altering the mix of debt and equity, the issuance of new securities, refinancing existing debt, and/or selling off assets. Capital restructuring can be necessary because of changes in market conditions, exco induced strategic shifts, or in worst cases financial distress. Polaris will create bespoke solutions to enhance your company’s long-term financial health.
M&A Advisory