Specialist Project Advisory Services

Excellence is personal.
Integration is the discipline.

Excellence is personal. It is the belief Tigaline was built on - and the standard that separates a firm that delivers advice from one that owns outcomes.

Your project has capable advisors. Each knows their discipline. Each will deliver within their lane. What none of them is structured to do - and what the professional services market has consistently failed to provide - is take personal ownership of the outcome. Not of a workstream. Of the whole.

Project Advisory Lead
Marc Descoins Project Advisory Lead

That is the gap where projects stall. Where timelines slip. Where
financial close becomes a moving target.

We exist because we believe that in every complex engagement, there is a direct path to the outcome - but finding it and holding it requires more than expertise. It requires the personal accountability that refuses to stop at the edge of its own discipline, that owns the interdependencies others leave unmanaged, and that stays committed to the result long after the advice has been delivered.

That is not a standard we apply from a distance. It is who we are.

Not coordination - integration.
The difference matters.

Coordination is each advisor knowing what the others are doing. Integration is someone owning what happens at the intersection - where your legal team's latest position affects your financial model, where your procurement timeline determines your approvals sequence, where a decision in one workstream creates consequences across all the others.

We sit at the centre of that landscape - applying project management rigour within each advisory workstream and programme management discipline across them, actively managing the interfaces between your technical, legal, financial, commercial, and ESG advisors.

What this looks like in practice:

Your legal advisors are advancing the term sheet while your financial model hasn't caught up. Your procurement process is moving while your environmental approvals are two months behind. Nobody is wrong. Nothing is aligned. That is the moment Tigaline exists for.

We bring world-class discipline with the agility of a specialist boutique - never applying a fixed framework where one doesn't fit. The approach adapts. The standard never does.

When you engage Tigaline, the coordination burden lifts. You focus on strategic direction and the stakeholders who matter most. We hold the full picture - and stay personally accountable to the outcome from inception to financial close.

Seven services. Four stages.
One integrated approach.

The stages provide a framework, not a rigid sequence. In practice, multiple workstreams run concurrently, overlap, and feed into each other throughout the project lifecycle. Financial modelling informs transaction structuring. Procurement runs alongside governance and approvals. Regulatory submissions shape funding timelines. Managing those overlaps - not just the sequence - is where Tigaline adds the most value.

Stage 01 - Foundations & Governance

You are at the start of something complex. Priorities are competing, boundaries are undefined, and your stakeholders are not yet aligned around a common vision. Without structure from the outset, even the strongest project loses momentum before it begins.

We establish the foundations - defining scope, shaping the delivery model, aligning stakeholders around a shared vision, and putting governance structures in place that hold throughout the engagement.

What we do
  • Coordinate the definition of project scope, delivery model, and strategic roadmap
  • Establish stakeholder alignment and a shared vision
  • Design governance structures and institutional arrangements

You are managing multiple advisors across technical, commercial, legal, and ESG disciplines - each producing work in their own lane, with no single point of accountability for whether the collective output is coherent, complete, and funder-ready.

We oversee the full feasibility process, managing inputs across all workstreams to ensure every assessment is thorough, aligned, decision-ready, and structured to meet the expectations of funders and approving authorities.

What we do
  • Oversee feasibility studies across all technical and advisory disciplines
  • Manage inputs across technical, commercial, legal, and ESG workstreams
  • Ensure assessments are decision-ready and funder-aligned

Stage 02 - Transaction Development & Bankability

Transaction development is where complexity peaks. Your advisors are working in parallel, each focused on their own discipline, with little natural coordination between them. Without a central integrator, critical interdependencies are missed, timelines slip, and the bankability of the deal is put at risk.

We coordinate the development of term sheets, contracts, and commercial structures - managing all advisory inputs to ensure full alignment and produce commercially sound, bankable structures optimised for risk and positioned for a successful close.

What we do
  • Coordinate the development of term sheets, contracts, and commercial structures
  • Facilitate cross-functional input to ensure bankability and risk optimisation
  • Manage legal, commercial, and financial advisory teams

Your transaction is only as bankable as the financial model behind it. Yet in most project advisory landscapes, the financial model is built in isolation - without full visibility of developments across other workstreams. The result is a model perpetually out of date, misaligned with the evolving deal structure, and unable to withstand funder scrutiny when it matters most.

We oversee the development, maintenance, and integration of your financial model - ensuring it remains the single source of financial truth throughout the engagement. From preliminary viability assessment through to financial close, we ensure it is robust, current, and fully aligned with the commercial and legal structure of the deal.

What we do
  • Oversee financial model development and maintenance with appointed financial advisors
  • Ensure the model reflects current legal, commercial, and technical inputs at every stage
  • Validate model outputs against funder requirements and transaction milestones

Stage 03 - Execution & Procurement Management

Whether your procurement is governed by public sector regulatory frameworks, donor requirements, or your own project-developer protocols, the challenge is the same - a complex web of documentation, evaluation processes, and multi-disciplinary inputs that must all move in lockstep. One sequencing error. One compliance gap. One missed submission. The process stalls.

We manage procurement end-to-end - ensuring full compliance with your applicable framework and coordinating legal, technical, and financial inputs to keep the process defensible, efficient, and aligned with your broader transaction objectives.

What we do
  • Manage the procurement process in compliance with applicable public or private sector frameworks
  • Oversee preparation of bid documentation, contract terms, and evaluation criteria
  • Coordinate legal, technical, and financial inputs through contractor and supplier negotiations

Your project has approval stages moving at different speeds - regulatory submissions, environmental authorisations, and governance milestones specific to your development framework, whether gate reviews, investment committee approvals, or board sign-offs. When these fall out of sequence, you lose months.

We develop and manage your project route map and schedule - keeping every approval and governance milestone properly sequenced so that no obligation is overlooked and no avoidable delay is introduced.

What we do
  • Develop and manage the project route map, governance framework, and approval schedule
  • Ensure timely preparation and submission across all required approval and governance stages
  • Oversee regulatory and environmental compliance processes

Stage 04 - Financial Close

Without strong coordination, gaps emerge, funders lose confidence, and transactions stall. You are simultaneously managing financial advisors, navigating the requirements of DFIs, commercial lenders, and equity investors, and keeping all financial modelling, due diligence, and documentation consistently aligned - while actively pursuing the capital commitments the project depends on.

We coordinate financial modelling and due diligence with your appointed advisors, manage all funder and investor engagements, and drive the capital raising process with purpose and momentum - ensuring every document and input remains aligned with funder requirements and transaction timelines. The path to financial close stays clear and unobstructed.

What we do
  • Coordinate financial modelling and due diligence with appointed financial advisors
  • Manage engagements with DFIs, commercial lenders, and equity investors
  • Drive the capital raising process and align all documentation with funder requirements
What makes the
difference.

There is no shortage of advisory expertise. What is rare is a firm that integrates - and stays personally accountable to the outcome from inception to financial close.

01
We Understand Why Projects Fail.

Large-scale initiatives rarely fail because of a shortage of advice. They fail because of fragmented coordination, unclear accountability, and misaligned execution. That is the exact gap we exist to close.

02
Boutique Focus. Institutional Discipline.

We apply world-class project and programme management discipline with the agility of a specialist boutique - giving you senior-level attention on every engagement, not junior execution.

03
High Stakes Is Where We Thrive.

Our clients engage us when the stakeholder landscape is complex, timelines are unforgiving, and seamless execution is non-negotiable. We are built for environments where ambiguity is high.

04
From Inception to Financial Close.

We don't hand over at any stage of the lifecycle. From early-stage preparation through to financial close, we stay in the process - personally accountable to the outcome at every step.

Five things. Every engagement.
No exceptions.

Regardless of project scale, sector, or complexity.

01
One Picture, Fully Integrated

Every workstream aligned and sequenced into a single, coherent delivery framework. No gaps, no silos.

02
Momentum That Doesn't Stall

Structure, accountability, and proactive bottleneck resolution from early-stage preparation through to financial close.

03
Risk Surfaced Before It Lands

Interdependencies mapped, sequencing managed - so risks are identified and resolved before they become project-threatening.

04
A Single Point of Accountability

One entity holding the full picture - managing interfaces, aligning advisors, ensuring collective output moves toward one outcome.

05
Clarity at Every Stage

Strategic direction, transparent reporting, and consistent stakeholder alignment - decisions grounded in the full picture.

We have supported infrastructure projects across the transport, energy, water and sanitation, and built environment sectors - working with public and private sector organisations at the forefront of South Africa's development agenda.

Business Unity South Africa

Programme Management

PELE Industrial Partners

Programme Management

Forestry South Africa

Programme Management

Ready to close the gap?

Working on a complex infrastructure project? Let’s talk about what integration-led advisory looks like in practice.

Ready to close the gap?

Working on a complex infrastructure project? Let’s talk about what integration-led advisory looks like in practice.