Houston, Texas  ·  Capital & Strategy Advisory

Independent counsel.
Institutional standards.
For the companies
that matter most.

We advise growing businesses and their owners on capital access, transaction structuring, due diligence, and strategic positioning — bringing the rigour and relationships of a major institution to the clients who need it most.

Full StackCapital Coverage · Debt to Equity
4 RegionsUSA · GCC · ASEAN · Europe
100+ YearsCombined Senior Experience
Senior LedEvery Mandate · Every Meeting
Our Mandate

The gap the market was never designed to fill.

The largest advisory firms serve the largest clients. Regional generalists serve the rest. In between — generating the most employment, the most innovation, and the most economic momentum — sits a segment of businesses whose owners have been told, implicitly and explicitly, that institutional-quality counsel is not for them.

Agnezia was built to correct that. We serve growing companies across the full SME spectrum and into the mid-market, bringing the analytical standards, transaction discipline, and global relationships that have historically been reserved for deals measured in the hundreds of millions.

"The quality of advice a company receives at a critical inflection point has consequences that compound for a decade. Every business, regardless of size, deserves the best available counsel when the stakes are at their highest."

— Agnezia Advisory Principles
I

SME-focused. Mid-market capable.

We advise businesses generating $5M to $150M in revenue — where the quality of financial and strategic counsel has the greatest impact on outcomes. Our global network and institutional rigour extend our reach into the mid-market when the opportunity warrants it.

II

Permanently independent.

We hold no proprietary capital, manage no investment funds, and represent no lender or investor. Our advice is never shaped by a product to place. Our sole interest in every engagement is the outcome for the client in front of us.

III

Cross-border when it creates value.

Our principals have built genuine networks across the GCC, ASEAN, Europe, and the USA. We deploy them selectively — when international capital demonstrably improves terms or access — not as a marketing claim appended to every pitch.

Advisory Practice

Four disciplines.
One integrated mandate.

Each practice is a standalone discipline. In most engagements they are inseparable — because the business, the transaction, and the capital are a single problem. We cover all four so nothing falls through the gap between advisors.

Capital Access
01

Capital Access

Access to the full capital spectrum

Matching the right capital instrument to a specific situation requires more than product knowledge. It requires a precise understanding of the business's cash flow profile, risk characteristics, and the real terms that capital providers in this market will accept. We have seen every layer of the capital stack from multiple vantage points — as advisors, as operators, and as borrowers. That perspective shapes every recommendation we make, and every relationship we bring to the table.

Senior secured debt and revolving credit facilities
Mezzanine and subordinated debt
SBA 7(a) and 504 loan programs
Private credit and direct lending
Preferred and common equity
Cross-border and sovereign capital access
Structuring
02

Structuring

The right architecture for every transaction

Capital raised on poor terms — wrong covenants, wrong tenor, wrong leverage for the business cycle — can be as damaging as no capital at all. We engineer capital stacks that match the client's actual cash flow profile, growth trajectory, and exit horizon. This means declining structures that are technically achievable but create problems in Year 3, and designing frameworks that hold up when conditions change — because they always do.

Capital stack optimisation and layering
Covenant negotiation and lender protection
Debt sizing, equity sizing, and sequencing
Refinancing and recapitalisation advisory
Construction-to-permanent transitions
Multi-jurisdictional and cross-border structures
Due Diligence
03

Due Diligence

Clarity before commitment

We provide financial, operational, and market diligence in support of transactions, investment decisions, and capital raises. Our analysis is built to meet the standard that institutional lenders and equity investors apply — because we have spent careers on both sides of that standard. We give capital providers the confidence to move, and we give our clients an honest view of value, risk, and the gap between the two before they commit to anything.

Financial statement analysis and normalisation
Quality of earnings and EBITDA verification
Operational assessment and scalability review
Market, competitive, and positioning analysis
Asset and collateral evaluation
Lender and investor diligence preparation
Growth and Strategy
04

Growth & Strategy

Five levers. One direction.

For companies approaching a financing event or navigating a strategic inflection, the state of the business matters as much as the capital. Lenders and investors underwrite management as much as they underwrite the numbers. We advise across five strategic dimensions — technology, operations, growth, marketing, and capital readiness — to build the value and the institutional narrative that capital markets reward. This work often begins long before a transaction, and sometimes determines that no transaction is needed at all.

Technology — systems, data infrastructure, digital readiness
Operational — process efficiency, margin improvement, scalability
Growth — revenue strategy, market expansion, channel development
Marketing — positioning, brand equity, customer acquisition
Capital — financial readiness, reporting standards, investor preparation
Sector Coverage

Industries we know from the inside.

Our sector coverage reflects where our principals have operated businesses and executed transactions — not where we observe from a distance. We engage in sectors where our experience makes the advice actionable and our relationships make the capital accessible.

Real Estate
01
Real Estate & Development

From land acquisition and construction financing through stabilised asset recapitalisation and portfolio exit. Our principals have developed, financed, and advised on real estate across Texas and internationally, giving us direct insight into development economics, lender underwriting, and the institutional capital that underwrites these assets globally.

Construction LendingC-to-PREIT CapitalJV Structures
Healthcare
02
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Hospital development, physician practice management, ambulatory facilities, and healthcare technology businesses. We have direct experience building healthcare businesses and advising on the regulatory, structural, and capital dimensions that make this sector distinctly complex — including HOPD structuring and physician economic models.

Hospital DevelopmentPhysician EconomicsHealthcare PE
Energy
03
Energy & Infrastructure

Upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas; renewable energy development; power generation and critical infrastructure. Houston is our home market and energy is its defining industry. We operate at the intersection of Texas energy finance and the international institutional capital that flows toward these assets globally.

Project FinanceReserve-Based LendingRenewables
Technology
04
Technology & Digital

SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and digital infrastructure businesses. We understand the metrics institutional capital applies — ARR, NRR, unit economics, Rule of 40 — and how to position technology businesses to the right capital sources at each stage of their development. Our principals have founded and operated technology companies.

Growth EquityVenture DebtStrategic M&A
Industrials
05
Industrials & Manufacturing

Asset-heavy businesses with complex working capital requirements, capex cycles, and value creation tied to operational performance. Our principals have founded and operated manufacturing businesses — we understand what institutional acquirers scrutinise because we have been the operator, not just the advisor.

Equipment FinanceGrowth CapexPlatform M&A
Consumer
06
Consumer & Hospitality

Consumer brands, restaurant groups, hospitality assets, and retail businesses. We understand brand equity valuation, unit-level economics, franchise capital structures, and the investor classes most active in this segment. Consumer businesses are operationally complex and cycle-sensitive — we advise accordingly.

Brand CapitalFranchise StructuresHospitality PE
Global Reach

Four markets.
One consistent standard.

Our global network spans four of the world's most important capital markets — built through decades of senior advisory and institutional work. We bring these relationships to bear precisely and deliberately, when they create specific, measurable value for a client's situation.

Americas

United States

Headquarters — Houston, Texas

Texas energy, real estate, and healthcare markets
US bank and SBA lending relationships
Private credit and direct lending funds
Gulf Coast family offices and equity sponsors
US mid-market M&A and capital markets
Middle East

GCC

Network — UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait

Sovereign wealth funds and state capital
UHNW family office relationships
Islamic finance and Shari'ah-compliant structures
Cross-border US–GCC transaction facilitation
GCC capital deployment into US real assets
Asia-Pacific

ASEAN

Network — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam

Institutional capital allocators — Singapore
Regional private equity and infrastructure funds
Cross-border M&A and strategic partnerships
ASEAN capital deployment into US markets
Technology and real estate capital flows
Europe

Europe

Network — UK, Germany, France, Benelux

European institutional investors and pension capital
ECM and DCM market relationships
Pan-European family office networks
Transatlantic M&A and deal facilitation
European private credit access

"The most valuable thing we bring to a cross-border engagement is not a roster of names. It is the trust built from working alongside the same institutions and investors — through multiple market cycles — over the course of a career."

Global network
Why Agnezia

What genuine independence means in practice.

The structure of the large advisory market creates misalignments that are well understood but rarely acknowledged. Senior talent is deployed to the largest mandates. Junior teams handle the rest. Product desks shape the advice. We were built around a different premise entirely — and we accept fewer mandates deliberately, so that each one receives the full attention of the firm.

Start a conversation
01

Principals on every mandate

Nabeel Khan and Mujtaba Sarfaraz personally lead every engagement Agnezia accepts. The people who present in the first meeting execute the transaction and sit across the table from your lenders and investors. There is no handoff.

02

Institutional rigour at boutique scale

Our principals apply the analytical standards, transaction process discipline, and capital markets methodology of major institutions to clients who have historically been told they are too small to receive that quality of advice. That assessment is wrong. We act accordingly.

03

Global capital access. Local market knowledge.

We are a Houston firm with deep Texas roots and genuine, relationship-based access to sovereign capital, family office capital, and private credit across the GCC, ASEAN, and Europe. That combination — local knowledge plus international access — is rare at this level of the market.

04

Advisory that begins before the transaction

Many of our most valuable engagements are not transactions — they are the months of strategic, financial, and operational preparation that determine whether a transaction is achievable, on what terms, and whether it actually serves the owner's objectives. We engage at that stage deliberately.

05

No conflicts. Ever.

We hold no proprietary capital, manage no balance sheet, and represent no financial institution or product provider. Our advice is never shaped by a product to place, a lender to maintain, or a fund to fill. Our only interest is the outcome for our client.

Our People

The principals are the firm.

Agnezia is built on a deliberately senior team. Our principals personally lead every mandate, supported by a distinguished advisory board and an emerging analyst team — structured so that depth of engagement, not volume of activity, defines how we work.

Nabeel Khan
Chief Executive Officer

Nabeel Khan

CEO & Founding Principal · Houston, Texas

Nabeel leads Agnezia's client relationships and strategic advisory practice. His career spans investment banking, private equity, and entrepreneurship across the USA, GCC, and Asia-Pacific — combining capital markets execution experience with the operational depth of someone who has founded and scaled businesses across multiple sectors.

He has advised on transactions across real estate development, energy, healthcare, and technology, and draws directly on his experience as an operator when advising clients on the management dimensions that capital providers scrutinise. His network spans sovereign capital, private credit platforms, and family offices across four continents.

Capital MarketsM&A AdvisoryGrowth StrategyUSA · GCC · ASEAN
Mujtaba Sarfaraz
Managing Director, Global Markets

Mujtaba Sarfaraz

MD, Global Markets & Corporate Advisory · Houston, Texas

Twenty-five years at the intersection of investment banking, financial services, and strategic advisory — combined with a track record as a serial entrepreneur who has founded and led companies across Technology, Real Estate & Construction, and Manufacturing. Mujtaba brings an uncommon duality: the transaction execution discipline of a career in institutional capital markets, alongside the operational credibility of someone who has built and scaled businesses from the ground up.

He leads Agnezia's international capital access practice and its global institutional relationships across the GCC, Europe, and the Far East. His work has encompassed complex project finance across upstream and downstream Oil & Gas, Power, and Industrials — alongside Real Estate development finance and sovereign issuances in debt capital markets. These networks, built over decades of senior-level institutional work, represent one of Agnezia's defining advantages in cross-border transactions.

Investment BankingGlobal MarketsGCC · Europe · Far EastProject Finance
Advisory Board & Team
Adeel Ali Khan
Managing Partner

Adeel Ali Khan

Private Equity & Capital Markets · Houston, Texas

Adeel brings 27 years of experience spanning private equity, corporate management, debt advisory, M&A, and fund management. He has held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and J.P. Morgan, and has executed investments, buyouts, and exit transactions across the full capital structure.

His deal expertise spans food, financial services, and technology across global markets. Adeel holds a BEng from Imperial College London, an MSc from Oxford, and an MBA from Imperial.

Goldman SachsLehman BrothersJ.P. MorganOxford · Imperial
Mayukh Gon
Technology, Blockchain & Digital Solutions

Mayukh Gon

Managing Partner, Nebula Capital · Technology Advisor

A technology entrepreneur and operator with 25+ years building and scaling products at the intersection of software, automation, and enterprise innovation. Mayukh has delivered strategic engagements for TD Bank, RBC, ING, and IBM.

He is Managing Partner at Nebula Capital — focused on AI, blockchain, and frontier technology investments — and Founder of Qalyx, an AI-driven enterprise productivity platform. He brings deep expertise in digital transformation and scaling high-growth ventures to Agnezia's advisory practice.

AI · BlockchainNebula CapitalEnterprise TechDigital Strategy
Mikayal Khan
Junior Analyst

Mikayal Khan

USC Marshall School of Business · Houston, Texas

Mikayal is a member of the Equity Academy at USC's Marshall Energy Business Club and the Leadership Development Program of USC's Scholars of Finance Chapter.

At Agenzia he supports the advisory team across financial modelling, sector research, transaction documentation, and investor materials — bringing analytical rigour and a developing institutional perspective to every mandate he contributes to.

USC MarshallFinanceAI ApplicationsEquity Academy
Engagement Process

A disciplined process.
No surprises.

We follow the same rigorous sequence on every engagement — from first conversation to close. It is designed to prevent the failure modes that destroy value in capital transactions: moving too fast, with the wrong structure, to the wrong counterparties, without adequate preparation. Our process is not bureaucratic. It is disciplined. There is a difference.

01

Diagnostic

An honest assessment of the business, the capital need, and the market. If we do not believe an engagement is achievable on acceptable terms, we say so before any fee is discussed.

02

Structuring

We design the optimal structure for the specific situation — instrument by instrument, source by source — before approaching a single lender, investor, or counterparty.

03

Preparation

We build the materials institutional capital requires: financial models, information memoranda, management presentations, and diligence packages that anticipate every question a sophisticated counterparty will ask.

04

Execution

A structured, competitive process — identifying the right counterparties, managing the timeline precisely, and maintaining the tension that optimises terms for our client.

05

Close

We remain engaged through closing — coordinating counsel, managing conditions precedent, and ensuring that the terms agreed are the terms executed.

Your most important transaction deserves senior attention.

We accept a limited number of mandates each year. If you are considering a capital raise, a transaction, or a strategic inflection point — the right moment to have a first conversation is before the situation becomes urgent.

advisory@agnezia.com  ·  Houston, Texas

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