Alphaprimus Advisors: Leading The Charge In A Fast-Changing Philippine M&A Landscape

and some businesses continue to pursue inorganic expansion aggressively, the Philippine M&A industry is anticipated to continue expanding with easy access to money, supportive regulatory modernization, and an environment with steady politics acting as the major driving forces behind this expansion. What sets AlphaPrimus apart from competition is not just its range of services, but also the company’s customer centricity, its environment, the establishment of social touch points, a societal workplace atmosphere, and its impeccable governance. Clients and relationships come first at AlphaPrimus As a result, the majority of their business comes from repeat clients who appreciate the high quality of their performance and the care they take to provide honest advice. Additionally, no other rival offers the service of having the company's leaders continue to be actively involved in both the deal's genesis and implementation. Senior bankers' participation enables the client company to carry out its strategic goals seamlessly.

(L-R) : Edmund Solilapsi, Albert Lagtapon, Nabbie Alejo, Manolet Salak, Calvin Chua

The firm has senior management involved both in origination and execution activities resulting in clients benefitting from senior touchpoints that feature strategic advice reinforced by detailed and quality execution, a combination rarely seen in bigger banks where coverage people are not involved in detailed execution activities and where conflicts of interest sometimes arise because the bank is pushing or cross selling other products of the bank. "Former ING Bankers - Calvin Chua, Albert Lagtapon and Edmund Solilapsi were all part of ING Manila's successful Corporate Finance team. Together with Manolet and Nabbie, they now form the core of senior transactors at AlphaPrimus Advisors."

Future Roadmap

AlphaPrimus has developed a well-planned strategy for its future expansion. With a vision to become the preferred M&A advisor for Philippine conglomerates and family offices, and with a mission to give best-in-class M&A advice through the depth and breadth of their knowledge. With regard to the most transformative endeavors, AlphaPrimus aspires to continue offering guidance to its core clients. "We desire to be able to execute more inbound and outbound cross-border exchanges for our clients, increase our partner resources outside of the Philippines, create a solid advisory board made up of seasoned international M&A experts and investment bankers, and establish the AlphaPrimus brand outside of the country”, further adds Salak.

The expansion of their operations into other areas, such as debt advisory and perhaps more IPO advising, is something they are simultaneously envisioning. Manuel R Salak Iii (Manolet) (R) Natividad N. Alejo (Nabbie) (L) Manolet returned to the Philippines after 10 years in Singapore where he was Head of Asia for Coverage and Mergers and Acquisitions encompassing 14 countries. Prior to that, Manolet was formerly the Country Manager of ING Bank Philippines where he led the branch in winning Best Investment Bank in the Philippines and M&A House in the Philippines from various finance publications for multiple years. All of AP's consulting engagements to date have been overseen by him.

Natividad N. Alejo (Nabbie): Nabbie brings more than 30 years of banking experience to the table. She previously oversaw BPI's retail banking division as president and chief executive officer of BPI Family Savings Bank, former chairman of BPI Direct Banko, former president of BPI Capital and BPI Securities, and former president of the Investment House Association of the Philippines. Nabbie oversaw M&A for BPI's major investments including bank acquisitions and industrial investments.