We've sat on both
sides of the table.
Taurean Global Advisors is an independent advisory. We don't broker, we don't take a position, and we don't run a fund. We prepare Colombian gold assets to institutional standard and introduce them to capital that deploys.
Colombia holds some of the richest gold geology in the Americas, and it still trades 40 to 60 percent below tier-one jurisdictions, with a further regional discount on top. That gap isn't about grade. It's about perceived risk, fragmented title, and the distance between a concession holder in the interior and an allocator in Toronto or London.
Closing that distance is the whole business. It takes a technical file a Canadian analyst can sign off on, diligence that has already found whatever is wrong, a structure the owner can live with, and a phone call to someone who answers. Very few firms do all four. We built the firm around doing all four.
Offices in Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá and Toronto. Work conducted in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Four partners,
four networks.
Canadian capital markets, Colombian mining origination, digital-asset capital and fintech infrastructure. We've run public companies, raised the money ourselves, and built the relationships we now bring to bear.
Douglas Thiessen
A retired entrepreneur with nearly five decades of experience across Canada, the United States and Argentina, including public-company CEO and CFO roles and multiple completed real estate syndication transactions. Leads the firm's public-listing mandates and its direct line into the Toronto capital-markets network.
Fernando Kuan
Multigenerational Colombian mining heritage and a deep operating footprint in country. Leads local origination and the operating relationships that turn a concession on paper into a project that runs.
Jerónimo Ferrer
A recognized voice on crypto regulation in Latin America, with direct standing in the Bitfinex and Tether ecosystem. Leads the firm's tokenized and hybrid capital structures, including listing vehicles through Bitfinex Securities.
Andrés Fonseca
Co-founder of VIIO, building Latin America's digital-asset financial infrastructure on global stablecoin accounts. Earlier at Alianza Fiduciaria and Alianza Valores. Leads the firm's stablecoin liquidity and fintech rails.
Seven steps, in order.
Each step has to hold before the next one starts. Skipping one is how deals die at the diligence table.
Review No fee
A one-week read of your project, free and without obligation. If it isn't a fit, we'll tell you plainly.
Prepare
Materials, data room and technical package, built to the standard the next counterparty will hold you to.
Validate
Independent diligence on title, resource and regulatory standing before anyone else opens the hood.
Structure
The shape of the deal, including the equity you keep and the upside that comes with it.
Introduce
The right capital partners, approached directly and on your terms.
Negotiate
Terms held to, on your side of the table, by people who have raised the money themselves.
Close
Documentation, signing and funding. The part everyone talks about and few reach.
We don't work on speculation.
The first review is free. Every fee after that is disclosed in writing before you engage. No surprises, no success theatre, nothing buried in a footnote.
Engagements are structured as a defined work fee for the preparation and diligence phases, plus a success component payable on funding. The split is agreed in advance and written down. We will tell you what a mandate costs before you commit to one.