Alexander von Mellenthin is founder and managing partner of MELCOFIN & Co. (a successor company of Mellenthin & Co.) a European and African focused corporate finance and M&A firm. MELCOFIN & Co. forms part of an international M&A banking alliance www.terra-alliance.com and is able to cover both developed and emerging markets. We have a long-standing track-record of completed European and African corporate finance/M&A transactions, supports European as well as other international companies in respect of their European and M&A/market-entry expansion opportunities in different parts of Africa. Partners of MELCOFIN & Co. are mainly German, French and English-speaking and are particularly focused and networked in German, French-speaking Europe as well as the UK and South Africa. We actively support private round-table discussions between business leaders and other events between France, Germany, UK and South Africa.Melcofin has on the back of its connectivity to family investors, corporate VC investors and VC funds as well as leveraging of an industrial advisor network covering different sectors FMCG, healthcare, media/education and different industry technologies) able to evaluate early-stage technology businesses, help them raise capital, support their roll-out and growth plans into new targeted geographies and also become involved as an investor.Clients of Melcofin are larger listed corporates, family-owned groups and family offices. Melcofin has built-up a track-record of getting larger family investment companies from different countries to join forces and form part of investment consortium. Melcofin's partners in Johannesburg and London will in addition to advising clients, selectively also together family offices consider investing in small to mid-cap 'growth' companies in Germany, France and South Africa.Melcofin is also together with family investors involved in charity events in Africa (e.g. Ethiopia and South Africa) with a particular emphasis on education and healthcare.