Bankers optimize the deal.
We optimize what you keep.
NED is the company-side advisor for late-stage Asian technology companies preparing to exit. We engineer your IPO, M&A, or dual-track process around one number: what you and your shareholders walk away with.
Asia to U.S. corridor. New York, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul.
The Exit Is Won Early
Most of the exit is decided before the banker arrives.
By the time a bank runs your process, the valuation is already shaped by governance, numbers, and narrative that took months to build. The stronger that groundwork, the more a great bank has to work with, and the more of the outcome stays yours.
Asia holds roughly 300 late-stage $1B-plus companies. Asia Pacific PE fundraising is at a decade low and companies are sitting in portfolios longer than their investors planned. In that market, preparation is what turns a good business into a ready one.
(CB Insights, Bain)
NED Works Alongside Your Team,
Not Instead Of It
YOUR BANK Your bank runs the transaction, and that is its job. Ours is to get the company ready so the bank can do its best work: governance in order, numbers clean, narrative set, and the valuation case built before the process goes live. Once the bank is engaged, we stay company-side and keep everyone pulling in the same direction.
YOUR ADVISORS Your counsel, auditors, and consultants each own a piece of the process. What often goes unowned is the exit itself, end to end, from the company's point of view. We hold that line and coordinate the advisors you already have, so nothing that decides your valuation falls between them.
YOUR CFO AND TEAM Your CFO knows your business better than anyone. An exit is a specialist, once-in-a-company process layered on top of a full-time job. We carry that load alongside your team, bring the reps they have not had reason to build, and let them keep running the company while the process runs.
Founder Net Outcome
THE ONE NUMBER WE HOLD IS THE ONE YOU KEEP
The number that matters is what you and your shareholders keep when the process closes.
Every other party has a lane. The bank runs the transaction. Counsel manages risk. Specialists cover their workstreams. NED holds Founder Net Outcome: proceeds to the existing cap table after preferences, transaction costs, taxes, and structure. We keep every decision pointed at that number.
Our fees are milestone-based and agreed up front. You pay against advisory work as we deliver it, never a percentage of the deal and never a fee tied to the transaction closing. NED is not a broker-dealer, and our pay does not rise with a bigger or faster deal. That leaves us with one interest: your outcome.
Exit Engineering: How We Work
WE EMBED COMPANY-SIDE AND RUN THE EXIT BACKWARD FROM THE OUTCOME YOU WANT,
THROUGH FOUR STAGES.
01 Diagnose
An exit-readiness review across governance, financials, valuation logic, and stakeholder alignment. We find where the real risk sits early, while there is still time to fix it.
03 Align
We get management, board, shareholders, and advisors moving against one objective, so the process runs with leverage instead of fragmenting.
02 Prepare
We close the gaps: governance, reporting discipline, cap-table hygiene, data-room readiness, and the equity story that decides how you are priced.
04 Execute
We stay company-side through the live process. We coordinate the banks, counsel, and auditors, hold the timeline, and keep the valuation case together through diligence and the roadshow.
Role Clarity
WE DO NOT DUPLICATE THE BANK. WE MAKE ITS PROCESS RUN TIGHTER.
NED DOES NOT
Run bookbuilding, underwriting, distribution, syndication, pricing, or allocation, and does not act as a broker-dealer or investment adviser.
NED DOES
Prepare and position the company for institutional scrutiny, de-risk diligence, sharpen the equity story, align stakeholders, and hold timeline and narrative discipline through execution.
Selected Engagements
Representative mandates, anonymized where required. We work company-side from the first diagnostic through the live process. The bank runs the transaction. We run the company's side of it.
Healthcare Infrastructure Platform
Prepare: rebuilt governance, the KPI stack, the company narrative, and the valuation architecture.
Execute: advised on bank selection, then worked alongside the bankers as the company's advisor, holding timing, messaging, and diligence together under scrutiny. Valuation range widened by ~3x with a process the company controlled rather than reacted to.
AI-Native Design and Simulation Platform
Prepare: rebuilt the financial architecture and repositioned the company on an AI-native valuation framework built around technology defensibility, product execution, traction, and monetization.
Execute: advised the board across M&A pathways, prepared management for counterpart diligence, and coordinated the company's advisors so the process moved on its terms. Clearer optionality and more leverage in strategic talks.
Conversational AI in Regulated Markets
Prepare: converted the company to accrual accounting, tightened operations, and built an M&A-preparedness framework for diligence and integration planning.
Execute: ran the diligence process company-side and held decisions disciplined across both the M&A and public-market tracks. A resilient operating profile and a credible path to financing, sale, or listing.
Case studies are illustrative, anonymized where appropriate, and provided for information only. They are not guarantees of future outcomes.
Work with Partners, Not Juniors
Jonathan Kim - Chief Executive Officer & President
25+ years in AI and deep-tech. P&L leadership at Samsung, ecosystem growth at Qualcomm, founding team at Beyond Limits (a NASA/JPL spinout). Led a US$350M IPO and US$20M to US$1.3B of value creation.
James Moon - Chief Financial Officer
30+ years and US$27B in APAC transaction volume. Former eBay APAC CFO. Led eBay Korea's US$3.5B sale and Gmarket's US$1.5B acquisition.
Steve Cho - Head of Service Delivery & Value Creation
Scaled companies across IAC, Yahoo!, Samsung, Coupang, and iHerb. Led US$1.3B of revenue growth and an US$85M Series C.
Toto Widjojo - Head of Southeast Asia
30+ years in Indonesian consumer and technology. Scaled TREBEL to 3M monthly active users in year one, doubled Warner Music Indonesia's revenue, and led the Sony BMG merger in Indonesia.
Greg Fortner - Operating Director
20+ years in strategy, operations, and capital planning. Former COO at Mycotoo. Supported US$135M+ in capital raises. MBA, Michigan Ross.
Robert Blinn - Senior Advisor, Capital Strategy & Exit Readiness
20-year capital markets veteran. A US$300M NASDAQ telecom IPO, a US$1.7B healthcare trade sale, and US$4B of structured credit raised.
Ayla Kremb - Senior Advisor, Strategic Finance & Partnerships (Asia)
Built a 10,000-strong accredited-investor network, launched three alternative-asset funds, and raised US$30M of fund seed capital in 90 days.
David Waldman - Advisor, Investor Relations & Public Market Communication
25 years in investor relations. US$1B+ raised across thousands of roadshows supporting hundreds of IPOs, direct listings, and SPACs.
Brice Penaud - Advisor, SPV Strategy & Structured Liquidity
Structures founder, investor, and continuation vehicles for clean capital entry and secondary liquidity without double fees.
NED Global provides strategic and operational advisory services only.
NED Global is not a registered broker-dealer, investment adviser, or placement agent and does not provide securities brokerage, investment advisory, underwriting, or securities placement services.
Any securities-related activities are conducted solely by appropriately registered and licensed third parties. Nothing on this website constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Case studies, illustrative outcomes, and examples are provided for informational purposes only, may be anonymized, and are not indicative of future results.