It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G.K. Chesterton

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

It's too early to say.

Zhou Enlai, asked, in 1972, for his assessment of the 1789 French Revolution

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Rufus E. Miles

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Mike Tyson

ABOUT

ZEPPELIN ADVISORS

Zeppelin Advisors provides high-level corporate law and strategy advisory services. Its clients are predominantly owner-managed companies across various sectors including media, resources, education, renewable energy, agriculture, retail, software development and property.

Zeppelin Advisors prides itself on bringing a broad perspective when creating solutions for its clients. It strives to offer a wider view, the view one would get aboard a zeppelin. This requires that Zeppelin Advisors understands the values and objectives of its clients, now and over the longer-term. Knowledge of the broader environment a client operates in is also essential.

Recent transactions Zeppelin Advisors has advised on include an investment by a consortium of angel investors into a fast-growing software-as-a-service business, the sale of a South Africa-based hair accessory operator to a listed Indian company, an investment by South Africa’s largest public investor into an diversified agri-business, the sale of a software-as-a-service reseller to a public IT company, the purchase of a port-based cold storage facility and a venture capital investment into a niche online retailer.

Zeppelin Advisors believe its domain expertise, the diversity of its experience and the breadth of its perspective are what set it apart. It also collaborates with a wide network of specialists to give its clients a full range of services.

STEVEN GOOD (B. Com LLB. MPhil (Futures Studies)), CEO

Steven has deep transactional and general commercial law experience, including within Africa’s largest law firm. By augmenting his commercial legal skills with a masters degree in long-term strategic thinking, Steven is able to provide strategic, commercially-based advice and assistance. He is a non-executive director on numerous boards in South Africa and the UK and consults as a practising attorney to Dingley Marshall, a Cape Town-based law firm - www.dingleymarshall.co.za