Asian Market Entry & Corporate Finance

A Deal With Confidence.

Our Expertise Lies in Closing Win-Win Deals.

At TOZAI Group, we go beyond traditional capital intermediation. We aim provide a value-added match between companies and investors, ensuring that partnerships extend beyond financial transactions to create lasting strategic impact. Our approach is built on deep industry expertise, an extensive proprietary global network, and a commitment to truly understanding our clients’ needs. We take the time to carefully tailor our approach, designing solutions that reconcile the respective parties’ unique goals and aspirations.

Why you should
work with us.

Designing Deals That Work for You.

Capital Raises

Equity financing (late-stage growth capital, private equity)
Debt financing (private debts, mezzanine financing)
Fundraising strategy and investor targeting

M&A

Sell-side advisory
Deal structuring and negotiation
Due diligence support
Post-merger integration

Trusted Network

TOZAI Group connects high-growth companies and niche market leaders with pre- selected investors via our proprietary network spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East and N America.

Because Great People with Genuine Integrity make for the Most Profitable Relationships.

Global Expertise

With decades of corporate finance and business development experience spanning Europe, Asia, Middle East and N America, we help businesses accelerate their growth, attract high-quality investors, and navigate ownership transitions via tailored strategies. We identify not only financial investors but business partners in a broader sense.

Connections That Makes
Everyone a Winner.

Enduring Investments

We go beyond purely financial transactions, fostering trust-based relationships that support investment in people and long-term productive capacity; we also advise on succession planning, and long-term value creation for business owners and all relevant stakeholders.

Promoting Enduring Partnerships
over ‘Quick Wins’.

Thomas Clausen

Partner

Tom Clausen is a private equity expert with 25+ years in finance and investment. He brings a combination of growth capital investing and operational experience and expertise.

For close to 10 years in the 90’s, he worked for Credit Suisse in San Francisco and covered many rapidly growing technology companies. He returned to Europe in 1999 and co-founded his own company Capvent in 2000 that embarked on helping European institutional investors build up global VC and PE fund portfolios, co-managed a team of analysts in India and later in China and drove Capvent’s strategy with the other partners. Capvent’s focus shifted from PE/VC fund to co-investments and then to direct investments in privately held and rapidly growing companies in India and China with local teams.

In the later half of 2015, he decided to assume an operational challenge at a start-up. From 2016 to early 2024, Tom contributed his experience to FlowGen Development & Management AG, a renewable energy company, based in Switzerland, which was founded in 2015. He was actively involved in transitioning the company from a “highly compelling project with legs” to a corporation by assisting in shaping the strategy, driving fund raising, and spearheading business development efforts. These years are now very valuable in terms of experiencing the growth phases that start-ups go through such as to find the first customers, importance of the supply chain or prepare scalability.

In early 2024, he joined IPV Global as partner. IPV Global is a venture capital group focused on investments in the semiconductor ecosystem. He has been involved first as a LP and LP advisory board member and later as a venture partner since 2006.

He has a law degree (lic.iur) from the University of Zurich and an Executive MBA from the University of San Francisco.

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Heinz Zürcher