The emergence of the Internet, with its lightening-speed communication technologies, has brought great improvements to the arena of cross border business transactions. But on the other hand, it has also provided platforms that encourage and facilitate fraudsters and “fast-talking wannabes” who are constantly seeking ways to take advantage of legitimate businesspersons. These “bad guys” often tout nonexistent products, services, or business deals in an attempt to defraud and steal from unsuspecting individuals and entities. With Menes Konsult at your service, you possess exceptional advantages because you will be backed by credible, reliable, and locally-based professionals who will conduct “real time” and “on location” due diligence on your behalf before you commit your time, money or other resources. We investigate, verify, and confirm the legitimacy, reliability, and credibility of any individual, company, or other entity proposing to do business or relationship with you. And remember those emails that promise millions of dollars, enticing business proposals/ventures, and even everlasting love? Our due diligence team also thoroughly investigates them to provide you detailed report and recommendation before you invest your resources into even sending a reply to any of the emails. Through our services, you will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, and prevent the “bad guys” from ripping you off. This is why we proudly refer to our due diligence services as the “Look before Leap” services, because we become your eyes, ears, and boots on ground before you commit your resources. Yes, we Look before you Leap!

Having the right business plan/strategy is essential to the success of every cross-border venture. Through Menes Konsult, you will be fully equipped with a team of successful and currently practicing lawyers, accountants, financial planners, architects, entrepreneurs, software experts, real estate developers/managers, engineers, economists and other professionals who will deliver the right plan and strategy that are specifically tailored to the success of your venture or project. Our services include business and forensic accounting/economic solutions, feasibility studies, damage/injury and economic models, revenue and profit/loss valuation, business and economics expert testimony, business start-ups and reorganization, surveys, raw material and product/supplier sourcing, and management and employee training. What’s more, we are different from the usual consultants who merely claim to repackage your stuff and represent it to you with theoretical narratives and graphs that eventually prove impracticable for your business to implement. Ours is a practical, realistic, get-it-done, TotalBiz Solutions© approach, which simplifies the process and provides you with an original package that is specifically tailored to your business and the local environment. With our team, you can quickly move from your “Startup Home” to “Destination Success.” Remember, it’s not just a plan; it’s TotalBiz Solutions©.

Indeed, the world has become a global village! This statement is especially true in the business world where companies, organizations, governments, and businesspersons must constantly look across their borders for services, technology, human resources, funds, markets/consumers, raw materials, and other resources that are necessary to achieve business goals and success. Because we operate on the strong belief that the Africa not only needs the world, but the world also needs Africa, we have developed innovative and success-oriented strategies and approaches to foster partnership and joint venture relationships between African businesses and foreign businesses so that both sides will benefit by growing globally and maximizing their revenues/profits. Our unique program brings interested parties together for successful partnerships and joint ventures. Real estate and infrastructural development projects are examples of complex transactions that often require, and benefit from, cross-border and international partnerships and collaborations. Again from the exciting financial gains and rewards they bring to the table, these partnerships are also crucial for several other reasons. They contribute to the implementation of technology transfer, advancement of policies, research, and ideas, as well as elimination/reduction of the need to reinvent the wheel. Also, international partnerships and joint ventures often promote a project’s goodwill, credibility, and reliability. Thus, both African and foreign businesses seeking to properly execute projects and transactions will benefit a lot from each other. Our goal is not to merely find a partner for you. Rather, our goal is to find you a partner that is a “good fit” – one with the right resources, attitude, chemistry, and worldview. We take time to run an initial general evaluation of all potential partners, so we can ascertain their structure, projects, needs, human and capital resources. You are better equipped to decide which partner is better for you. We will also assist you in navigating the complex web of discussions, negotiations, paperwork, and regulations that may be involved in ensuring that your agreement and working relationship with your new partner is fair and equitable. And even after your partnership relationship has commenced, we will remain available to ensure continuous synergy and a smooth “merger” of ideas and resources for the success of the project. Among others, we provide joint venture and partnership services in the following key areas:

• Real Estate Designs, Development, and Construction
• Infrastructural Designs, Development, and Construction
• Brand Hotels, High-rise Offices, Apartments, and Malls
• Concept Drawings and Architectural/Interior Designs
• Project Management and Construction Administration
• Code Compliance and Quality Control
• Technical and Strategic Partnerships
• Joint Venture Funding/Financing
• Build, Own and Operate (BOO)
• Build Operate and Transfer (BOT)
• Equipment/Machinery Installation, Operation, Maintenance
• Excavation, Mining and Heavy-duty industries
• Installation, Operation, and Maintenance of Heavy-duty equipment
• Power Stations and Renewable Energy industries

In today’s world, businesses must have the right relationship with their host communities and the general public. It is no longer sufficient to view corporate efforts towards this relationship as a philanthropic afterthought by which the corporation provides at-will favors and privileges to the host community. Rather, such efforts should be seen as an important contributor to the corporation’s bottom-line and should, therefore, be fully integrated into the business plan and model. The right relationship helps the business to increase long-term revenues and profits by building positive public reviews, community trust, high ethical standards to reduce business and legal risk, and shareholder trust. Ultimately, a business with visible and effective community-relations strategies and models will gain consumer spending, consumer acceptance and loyalty, and more market share. We help your business create strategies that are aimed at making a positive impact on the environment and stakeholders including consumers, employees, investors, communities, the government, and others. Our team will effectively communicate your company’s sense of responsibility towards the community and the ecological and social environment. Through our work, the community will better understand the importance of cooperation for mutual success and progress. While your business benefits from the community’s peacefulness, stability, workforce and other resources, the community benefits from the employment, workforce training, wealth, tax revenues and philanthropy created by presence of the business. Our approach includes guiding and supporting businesses and organizations in ways to help identify and reduce tensions with the host community. The goal is to give employees and the host community reasons to appreciate and be proud of company and, thereby, avoid tensions, increase loyalty, and reduce costs. Through our work, the company gains happy employees and a good reputation in the community, the ability to attract highly qualified new employees, and also to generate new business opportunities through the contacts and leads it gains from its Community Relations activities. Such contacts might also make it easier for the company to obtain financing for expansion, find promising new locations, or gain favorable treatment in terms of taxes, ordinances, or utilities. Cordial community relations between the company and the community will also motivate the community to rally around and support the company in times of crises that may affect its business. Our community relations approach includes:

• — Assisting companies in building a public image and morale while fostering a sense of teamwork for long-term business success.
• — Creating an open two-way communication process with the community to foster better understanding.
• — Developing targeted campaigns of partnerships between the company and the community.
• — Developing employee volunteer programs reflecting the company’s strong philanthropic efforts and its spirit of positive social change to endear the company to the community.
• — Designing programs that reinforce the company’s core mission by providing employees with opportunities and resources to participate in community relations.
• — Designing specific programs to increase the company’s prestige and acceptance within the host community.
• — Establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between businesses and communities.
• — Establishing a sustainable bridge and liaison between the companies and the host communities.
• — Assisting companies to achieve visibility and engender goodwill by sponsoring or supporting community events.
• — Assisting companies in exploring civic responsibilities and having an active interest in the well being of host communities to gain the long-term benefits of community support, loyalty, and goodwill.
We align the community with your business for growth and success!