Strait & Arrow Group
Connecting markets. Transforming businesses.
A boutique advisory group. Strait takes businesses into new markets and trades across our corridors. Arrow helps them grow, transform, transact and raise capital.
Two divisions. One discipline.
Founded in 2016 to help Australian businesses expand internationally, Strait & Arrow has grown into a boutique advisory group. Strait opens the door to new markets. Arrow makes sure the business that walks through it is built to win.
Strait
Opens the door to new markets
Market Entry
Into new markets offshore, and into Australia
Trade Facilitation
Energy, agri-food and resources, from counterparty to contract
Country Corridors
Five markets where we have people on the ground
Arrow
Builds the business to win
Growth
Market research, feasibility and the business case
Transformation
Operating model design and delivery
M&A
Buy side and sell side, strategy to completion
Capital
Investment case and capital raising
Our mission: to be the connector between customer, company and country.
From first market to funded growth.
Enter
Entry case, structure and verified local partners
Trade
Verified counterparties, contracts and supply
Build
The operating model to run and grow the business
Transact
Acquire to grow, or prepare and sell well
Fund
The investment case and the capital to back the plan
Strait opens the door. Arrow builds, funds and scales what you create on the other side.
Enter at any stage
Start with a market, a transformation, a deal or a raise. We carry you to the next stage.
One team, end to end
Strategy, operating model, deal and funding under one roof. No hand-offs, no lost context.
Independent and connected
We advise in your interests, then bring in our funders and M&A partners to execute.
Senior people, with partners to execute.
Elie Elias
Founder & Managing Director20+ years in transformation and M&A at CBA, MLC Life and Vodafone, and 12 years lecturing Asia Pacific market entry at UTS.
Dr Sam Lackey
Partner, Governance & Investment Advisory30+ years advising Ministers, Treasurers and boards across Australia, the Middle East and Asia. PhD UNSW, MBA Stanford.
Dima Istambouli
Partner, People & ChangeBehavioural psychology, organisational design and human-centred change that makes transformation last.
Sydney-based finance brokerage across commercial, development and private finance, with 25+ years’ experience and access to 200+ lenders, from major banks to private funds.
Independent M&A and capital raising adviser to private business owners, family offices and private equity, on sales, acquisitions and raises valued between $10m and $250m.
We collaborate with Avessia on trade and international expansion, capital and property growth, and acquisitions and sales on both the buy side and the sell side.
Why clients choose us.
- 01
Built from the inside
20+ years leading transformations and transactions inside CBA, MLC Life and Vodafone, including the CFS/KKR and CommInsure/Hollard divestments.
- 02
People on the ground
Contacts across the Gulf, South Asia, Africa and Europe, so you start with introductions, not cold calls.
- 03
One team, end to end
Market entry, operating model, deal and funding under one roof.
- 04
Verify, then introduce
Every counterparty is checked first. In cross-border deals, your reputation comes first.
Let’s talk about your next market, or your next stage of growth.
Book a 30-minute discovery call to explore market entry, a trade opportunity, a growth strategy, a transformation program, a transaction or a capital raise.
Elie EliasManaging Director · elie@straitandarrow.com.au
Level 57, 25 Martin PlaceSydney NSW 2000, Australia
Strait & Arrow Group Pty LtdACN 610 573 227