Orams Marine is the largest marine servicing company in New Zealand and has been operating for over fifty years. It is heavily involved in marine brokerage, maintenance and boatpark facilities. It has established a worldwide reputation for servicing megayachts from around the world.

FE Investments’ Directors were retained by the shareholders of Orams Marine to expand the company’s activities. The involvement began in 1999 and involved FE Directors working closely with the shareholders to revamp its corporate structure, providing input to its strategic plan and procuring the requisite funding to implement its expansion plans including arranging two public issues to raise capital to meet the company’s growth strategy.

The assets and operations of Orams Marine were sold to a listed Australian corporation in July 2007.

Orams Marine Village has now cemented its international reputation as a well-known marine industry hub situated on the edge of Auckland City for servicing vessels from across the globe.

The Docks residential apartment development project is a 221 unit development in Auckland City’s CBD. The Docks apartments are situated in a central location close to tertiary institutions, shopping centres and Queen Street (Auckland’s premier retail precinct).

FE Investments structured and arranged all of the funding for the residential apartment project. FE Investments involvement included corporate advisory services to the developer, risk management, negotiations with the contractor of the building contract, liaising with the prime bank to secure the bank funding and closely monitoring the development throughout the project life.

SmartPay is a listed corporation on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. It is one of the major resellers of prepaid mobile telephone top up capacity in this country. The corporation undertook a major expansion plan to increase its products and service offerings, to its customer-base, nationwide. The corporation required a mixture of debt funding and issuance of new shares to fund this expansion plan. FE Investments provided funding for its expansion plan and concurrently FE Securities was the arranger and corporate adviser for a rights issue to raise further equity.

FE Investments was involved in the acquisition of assets and business operations of ProvencoCadmus (after it went into receivership) by structuring a funding package to enable SmartPay to complete the acquisition.

IHUG was one of the top three ISPs in New Zealand. It needed to re-structure its operations and improve its financial performance. FE Investments was retained to restructure the corporation’s operations to improve its profitability. Once the corporation turned around its operations, it became a valuable acquisition target for an Australian listed company and was sold for $84 million.