The art of creating unique financial strategies
Redesigning perimeters means breaking down predefined frameworks. We look at deals with different eyes to overcome the binary logic of standard models that do not dare to think differently, designing unconventional financial architectures that turn transition phases into a new path of value.
«To seize is quicker than to imitate.»
Intuition
To be the first to ask the right questions and to listen
Original approach
A different framework born from the intersection of technique and experience, listening
Analytical rigour
Transparency, clear numbers and structures to support unconventional thinking
Attention to detail
The quality of a deal's execution depends on precision
Financial Empathy
To understand the other party's point of view and to value it.
Beyond the standard
our areas of operation
We map the elements of a potential deal, transforming technical insights into sound and verified financial architectures.
We combine experience, analytical rigour, and operational consistency to accelerate decisions and oversee every detail beyond conventional standards. Our method integrates rapid connections to novel solutions to address situations with rigour, ethics, and precision that accompany the operation through to completion.
Deep
Structure Decoding
We don't stop at data analysis, but identify the deep structure of operations, including those of counterparties and negotiation dynamics. Through years of exposure to complex deals, we recognise patterns and latent connections between different asset classes and risk profiles. We identify the right questions before others do, isolating the crucial nodes to transform hidden risks into valuable opportunities. We leave room for negotiation, which always strengthens the operation.
- Reference deals: designated asset leasing of supervised companies/banks, defeasance funds, NPL Investment Bank. Banking business units; direct lending funds, healthcare credits.
Heterodox
Framework Design
We often innovate the “handbook” of traditional finance using unconventional frameworks. We don't just limit ourselves to creative solutions; we cross-reference sectors, instruments, and regulations (M&A, Capital Markets, Real Estate, private equity, Carbon Credits) to build robust legal-financial architectures where standard models fall short. We transform heterodoxy into a structured asset aligned with traditional and liquid financial markets.
- Reference deals: forward flow securitisations, Nuclear Moratorium and commercial receivables, AgriLand Funds, Carbon Credit capital markets.
Synthesis & Execution
We accelerate our clients' competitive advantage by reducing the time between diagnosis and operational proposal. We use our synthesis capability to connect distant tools – such as applying project finance logic to traditional real estate – ensuring decision-making speed that surpasses competitors. We aim for effective execution that oversees every contractual detail to secure long-term investment.
- Reference Deals: Real Estate Credit Funds, First-time deals in esoteric asset classes (Forestry/Pulp, DOC agri-food products, power units, UTP/Leasing.
We leverage complexity for the customer's benefit.
We analyse complex scenarios to design financial architectures where others see obstacles and constraints. We apply analytical rigour and divergent models to map critical variables, transforming technical exceptions and negotiating positions into a competitive advantage.
Synthesis and speed
We will reduce the time between diagnosis and operational proposal by applying cross-sectoral logic to ensure a competitive time advantage.
Analytical approach
We guarantee the robustness of every architecture through rigorous stress tests, cash flow analysis, and verification of consistency between the business plan and financial requirements.
Surgical execution
We shall oversee the execution until closing, integrating governance mechanisms and remedies to protect the exit even in adverse scenarios.
Strategic persistence
- listening to the other parties' motives;
- facing structural obstacles;
- proposing solutions that provide long-term operational stability.
Deep structure analysis
Let's isolate the underlying logic of the operation beyond the surface data, identifying latent connections, key nodes, and structural risks before the market.
Beyond the data: the Harvip method
Let's verify whether the inherent sequentiality of off-the-shelf solutions is appropriate for safeguarding the deep structure of each deal. The Harvip method deconstructs complexity, integrating technical insight, analytical rigour, and negotiation experience to transform critical variables into robust financial architectures.
We don't stop at the accounting vision. We photograph the scenario to intercept asymmetries and unexpressed potential that standard models ignore. This lateral diagnosis phase serves to isolate the project's DNA and define a unique scope of action.
Structure incorporated into the negotiation process
Let's break down industry silos to hybridise financial, legal, and real estate tools. We are building an unprecedented negotiation prototype that systemises distant variables, transforming technical anomalies into a robust, coherent, and market-ready structure.
Analysis / validation of all scenarios
We subject the architecture to extreme analytical pressure. We dismantle each component to test its resilience against external shocks and contextual variations, ensuring that the operational synthesis is immune to hidden fragilities and aligned with long-term objectives.
Negotiation to Finalise the Transaction
We are overseeing the final phase with precise management of flows and contractual nodes. We don't just close a deal; we perfect governance mechanisms and protection clauses that ensure a smooth exit trajectory, even in turbulent waters.
Key deals:
Track record and key figures
A boutique with almost 20 years of track record but at the forefront of financial innovations for over 40 years in European markets.
Creation Gardant Investor SGR
The establishment of Gardant Investor SGR, as Gardant Group's investment platform, has seen the raising of over €1bn across three highly innovative alternative investment strategies.
Mortgage Credit
The acquisition of Credito Fondiario involved the purchase of 100% of the bank from its shareholders, Tages; the entry, via a capital increase, of funds managed by Elliott Investment Management; and the injection of over €2bn. Once repositioned in the NPL sector, Credito Fondiario managed over 35bn in banking assets and acquired three business units. Credito Fondiario subsequently established Gardant and Gardant Investor. The two entities were then sold in their entirety to the doValue Group.
Siena NPL
The process involved managing the negotiation, structuring, operational coordination, and credit management. We acted as advisors to a key institutional investor on one of the largest NPL securitisations ever undertaken, valued at €24.1 billion.
Commercial gallery sale
Rome Gateway targets EU Financial/Operational Institutional Investors with an innovative JV structure.
Purchase of Intesa Credit Management (IGC)
This was the first acquisition in the country's history to see the acquisition of a specialised platform for managing non-performing loans with over €12 billion in assets.
IMSER
This process represented the very first securitisation of future rental income streams backed by real estate. It is an innovative management strategy, which has been refinanced multiple times and copied by competitors over the last 20 years.
First securitisation of real estate loans and rental income streams in Europe and Italy.
First securitisation of NPLs in Italy (pre-law 130).
40+
Years of international experience
Gained experience in major investment banks – Chase JP, Hambros, and Morgan Stanley (MD) – through the creation of the Italian platform for Fortress, as well as joint ventures with leading Anglo-Saxon and Italian investment funds and institutional investors.
70+
Operations concluded successfully
Real estate, corporate and infrastructural financing, acquisitions of banks and regulated financial business units, securitisations of future flows and any type of credit and asset, including real estate securitisations.
£71 billion
Total deal consideration
For assets with a nominal value exceeding €114 billion.
Submit your scenario to Harvip
Let's explore the deep structure of your operation together. Through a confidential comparison, we will apply a non-linear vision to identify asymmetries and untapped potential that standard models overlook.