Black Star Advisors, Black Star Brokerage and Black Star Fund Managers provide financial advisory/business strategy, brokerage and fund/asset management services respectively. Black Star Holdings was founded, by a team of investment bankers from Wall Street’s premier investment banks (including JP Morgan and Solomon Smith Barney) and consultants from the preeminent consulting firms (including McKinsey & Co. and The Boston Consulting Group) with a singular aim of creating value by applying their 25+ years of global experience to the unique needs, circumstances and macro economic / political effects of transactions and privatizations in markets within West Africa. Our main objective is to encourage local and global investors to take a serious look at West Africa, by packaging the numerous investment opportunities in the sub region to whet the appetite of global investors, leveraging our background and training to evaluate opportunities, properly quantify risk as well as preemptively address potential investor concerns.