Investment Project Professionals
We enable great projects with cost effective solutions
You have a great idea
Optimize Your Business Goals and Objectives
Your project will make the world a better place. We will help you elevate your project and make it great.
- Project support
- Funding support
- Legal support
OUR VISION
Raising the Bar
Solutions to enable your project
Business Roadmaps Built Exactly To Your Needs
Setting up a business isn’t easy and can be expensive.
In any part of the world, designing, protecting and financing a project can be difficult, especially in the dynamic environments that often impact projects. This is especially so if your project doesn’t have a proper design and structure with such factors in mind.
Instead of hiring your own full-time general counsel, work with us. With select clients and portfolio companies, we enable cost-effective solutions, including part-time or project-based arrangements. Have the benefit of experience without the cost of a full-time general counsel.
Avoid the Roadblocks
Typical Project Risks
A business partner, financier, or government approval authority may be concerned about legal, regulatory, contractual, country, operational, or performance risk.
This is where we come in.
We help you address real and perceived risks so you can protect your project, your business, and attract the finance and partnerships you need to build your business.
Our Specialties
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Fund formation
Board advisory
External general counsel
Strategic business consulting
Project structuring – Legal, regulatory, contractual, strategic
Transaction management
Portfolio services
Extensive experience
What We Can Do For You
Even with a great idea, an otherwise great project may not proceed because risks, real or perceived, have not been addressed.
We can help you accomplish your goals by helping you set up appropriate structures to hold and facilitate your business. Investors, project financiers, and you, will expect a prioritized flow of funds. This may involve special shareholding and contractual mechanisms that appropriately address local ownership requirements, fund flows, joint venture arrangements, public private partnerships, and strategic alliances.
Business Consulting & Legal Counsel
Portfolio Services
Fund Formation
Project Structuring
The Ascend Team
Experts in Advisory & Fund Raising
Todd Benson
Founder & Managing Director
Joshua Benson
Co-founder & Systems Director
Heather Benson
Ascend Foundation Director
Wynona Benson
Consultant
Aaron Goach
Advisory Board Member
Mark Lippert
Advisory Board Member
Peter Chan
Ascend Fund Manager
Perry Ho
Ascend Fund Manager
Daniel Lett
Ascend Fund Manager