Lydius Ltd Lydius Ltd

Placement for transactions that can stand the test.

Lydius places physical commodities, real assets and industrial projects with counterparties able to sign, pay and perform. Every placement begins on the stone: a verified principal, a verified counterparty, and a structure a bank will accept.

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Sell-side and buy-side

We place what you own and source what you need, under one written mandate.

Principals only

No anonymous chains. We deal with the party that signs, and verify it first.

Fees agreed in advance

Every phase has a fixed scope and price. The success fee is added, never substituted.

What we place

Four markets, one discipline. We take a transaction from verified title to a signed contract, and we say early when it cannot get there.

Primary aluminium ingots stacked in a warehouse

Commodities

Base metals, energy products and bulk materials. We bring a verified cargo to an end buyer who can open the instrument, or find supply for a qualified buyer who needs it.

Commodity placement
A villa on a lagoon island at dusk

Real assets

Private estates, islands, collections and objects of rank, offered discreetly to buyers whose identity and funds we have already seen.

Real asset placement
Gold bars on dark velvet in a vault

Precious metals

Refinery supply and offtake, doré and bullion, with chain of custody documented lot by lot before a single kilogram is offered.

Precious metals placement
A bulk carrier moored at a deep-water port at dusk

Projects and infrastructure

Terminals, data centres and industrial plants that need a strategic partner, an offtaker, a contractor or a lender. We prepare the project to be judged, then put it in front of those who judge.

Project placement

From mandate to signature

A placement is a sequence, and each step is a decision. Nothing reaches a counterparty that has not passed the step before it.

The Lydius placement process Five stages joined by a gold line: mandate, assay, memorandum, approach to qualified counterparties, and signed terms. The field of counterparties narrows from many to one. 1 2 3 4 5
  1. MandateYou appoint us and define the transaction.
  2. AssayWe verify you, the asset and the structure.
  3. MemorandumWe prepare the placement memorandum.
  4. PlacementQualified counterparties only, never a broadcast.
  5. SignatureNegotiation to signed terms and closing.

The five phases in detail

The six tests of the assay A transaction at the centre, surrounded by six tests: identity, authority, title or funds, capacity, compliance and structure. The transaction Identity Authority Title or funds Capacity Compliance Structure

The assay

Assayers once judged gold by drawing it across a dark stone from Lydia. The streak told them what the metal was worth before a coin changed hands.

We test every transaction the same way, on six points, before we show it to anyone. The result is a placement that a serious counterparty can read in an afternoon and act on in a week.

Identity
Who the principal is, and who owns it.
Authority
Who may sign, and on whose behalf.
Title or funds
What is owned, or what can be paid.
Capacity
Whether delivery or performance is real.
Compliance
Sanctions, origin and source of funds.
Structure
How goods, documents and money will move.
A placement is only as strong as the weakest signature on it.

So we look at every signature first. It is slower in week one and much faster in month three.

We take on few mandates, and only those we expect to close.

Tell us what you hold or what you need. Qualification is free and takes no more than three business days.

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