Physical Gold
Principal participation in selected physical gold transactions, from verified origin through refining to professional offtake.
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Lucerne, Switzerland · In Formation & Capitalization
Nova Capital Partners AG
Swiss Governance. International Commodity Execution.
A Swiss principal platform for physical gold: governance and capital in Lucerne, trading and refining access through our own subsidiary in Dubai. We are currently being capitalized and are looking for one strategic partner — not simply an investor.
Investment
One strategic partner. One capitalization.
Nova is being capitalized once, deliberately: a completed capitalization of CHF 10 million by the end of September. What the partner receives — shareholding, rights and position in the structure — is negotiated individually and discussed personally.
Now
Conversations
Confidential discussions with a small number of strategic candidates. Intent before documents.
Within weeks
Examination
Mutual confidentiality, full access to structure, governance and transaction logic.
Thereafter
Structure
Shareholding, rights and terms drafted with counsel in Switzerland and the UAE — negotiated individually, never published.
End of September
Capitalization complete
Target: a completed capitalization of CHF 10 million, with the partner formally inside the structure.
The Firm
Built on structure before scale.
Nova Capital Partners AG is a Swiss principal platform for physical commodities. The firm buys, refines and delivers physical gold as a contractual principal — combining a Swiss legal and governance framework in Lucerne with a trading and refining platform in Dubai, where the physical market actually trades.
We are not a broker, not a family office and not a classic asset manager. We take positions, carry risk and answer for our own contracts. Everything on this page follows from that one distinction.
Legal and regulatory matters are handled internally by our own legal counsel and together with external law firms in Switzerland and the UAE.
Selected Opportunities
What we engage in — and what we decline.
Four areas define the scope of the platform. Individual transactions and counterparties remain confidential; the categories do not.
Commodities
Selected commodity flows where genuine access, a documentable structure and controllable risk come together.
Read moreStructured Trade Finance
Transaction-related financing structures supporting real, verifiable trade flows and controlled settlement.
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Long-term partnerships with industrial, entrepreneurial and institutional partners along the value chain.
Read moreWe answer for our own contracts. Everything else follows from that.
Operating principle
Two Jurisdictions
Switzerland holds the standard. Dubai holds the market.
The Swiss parent carries governance, structuring and capital. The Dubai subsidiary carries trading and refining access. Neither works without the other.
Why Switzerland
Legal certainty
Swiss law provides a predictable, internationally understood framework for contracts, ownership and dispute resolution. That predictability is what allows banks, refineries and institutional counterparties to engage at all.
Stability and governance
Political and economic stability, a mature regulatory culture and a governance standard that is expected rather than explained. It sets the baseline for how the platform is run.
Financial ecosystem
Proximity to refining, private banking, trade finance and commodity expertise concentrated in one jurisdiction — an ecosystem few places in the world can replicate.
International reputation
A Swiss domicile is not decoration. It is a signal of standards, and it shortens the distance to counterparties who take standards seriously.
Why Dubai
Where the physical market trades
Dubai is one of the principal hubs for the physical precious metals trade. A Swiss company cannot hold that market access itself — the trading subsidiary can, and it does so under the governance of the Swiss parent.
Access to global flows
Proximity to sourcing regions in Africa, Central Asia and Latin America, combined with refining and logistics infrastructure that operates at international standard.
Strategic market position
The Gulf connects European capital with emerging market supply. Being present on both sides of that corridor is a structural advantage, not a convenience.
Room to grow
The platform is designed so that further activity — commodities, trade finance — can be added along corridors that already exist, rather than built from nothing.
Where we operate
Global Reach
From the source, through Dubai, into Swiss governance.
Sourcing corridors in West and Central Africa and in Latin America, execution in Dubai, contract and capital in Lucerne.
Nova locations Sourcing regions Physical flow
The Transaction
From origin to offtake.
Every transaction follows the same four stations — documented at each step and settled only against verified assay and acceptance.
- IOrigin
Sourcing
Material is secured at origin through verified counterparties — documented, inspected and contractually defined before anything moves.
- IIDubai
Trading & Refining
The Dubai subsidiary receives the material, arranges assay and refining, and holds the trading access a Swiss entity cannot hold itself.
- IIISwitzerland
Governance & Settlement
The Swiss parent owns the contract, the compliance file and the capital. Settlement follows verified assay and acceptance — never before.
- IVOfftake
Refineries, Banks, Industry
Refined metal is delivered to professional offtakers — refineries, banks, jewellers and industrial buyers, including strategic partners of the platform.
Our Philosophy
Why this firm exists.
Four convictions shape every decision we make — and the order in which we make them.
Structure before scale
Nova was founded on a simple conviction: in physical commodities, the quality of the structure determines the quality of the outcome. Legal framework, counterparty standards and documentation come first; volume is a consequence, never a goal in itself.
Value that can be verified
We work with assets that exist, can be inspected, assayed and delivered. Value is anchored in physical goods and verifiable flows rather than in narrative — which is also why we would rather decline ten transactions than carry one that does not withstand scrutiny.
Relationships over transactions
A platform is judged over years, not quarters. We build a small number of deep, confidential relationships with counterparties, advisors and partners, and we protect them through discretion and consistency rather than through promotion.
Institutional thinking, entrepreneurial pace
We hold ourselves to institutional standards of governance and documentation while retaining the decisiveness of an owner-led firm. That combination is deliberate — and it is what allows serious counterparties to work with a young platform.
Why Partner With Nova
Capital is the smallest part of what we are looking for.
We are looking for a partner who opens doors we cannot open alone — and for whom we open ours in return.
Alignment
The partners we look for already stand somewhere in the value chain — a refinery, a jeweller, a trading house, a bank or an industrial buyer. For them, backing this platform is not a passive investment; it secures access to the material they ultimately consume.
Long-term thinking
We are not assembling a syndicate for one transaction. We are forming a small group of partners who measure this in years and who want to shape how the platform is built rather than merely to be present in it.
Scalability
The Switzerland–Dubai structure is deliberately designed to carry more than gold. Once governance, banking and counterparty standards are in place, additional flows can be added along corridors that already function.
Governance and execution
Documentation-led execution, an internal legal function, external counsel in both jurisdictions and a conservative view on which transactions are worth entering. Partners join a structure that can be examined, not a promise.
What a partner brings
CapitalCommitted with a multi-year horizon.
AccessCounterparties, refineries, offtake.
NetworkInstitutions, banks, Gulf corridors.
JudgementBoard-level challenge and experience.
PatiencePlatforms are measured in years.
Governance & Integrity
Standards are not a department. They are the design.
Compliance as a precondition
Counterparty verification, origin documentation and sanctions screening precede any transaction. Legal and regulatory matters are handled internally by our own legal counsel together with external law firms in Switzerland and the UAE.
Transparency where it matters
Partners see the structure, the documentation and the reasoning behind decisions. Discretion applies outward, towards the market — never inward, towards those who carry the platform with us.
Responsible growth
We grow at the pace governance allows. No upfront payments to sellers, settlement only against verified assay and acceptance, and no transaction that the structure cannot carry.
Our Vision
Where this is going.
In ten to twenty years, Nova should be an internationally respected Swiss platform connecting European capital, the Middle East and selected global commodity markets — known less for the size of its balance sheet than for the reliability of its execution.
That means a firm whose contracts are trusted by refineries and banks, whose governance is examined and accepted by institutional counterparties, and whose partners have been with us long enough to have shaped it. Physical gold is where this begins; commodities and structured trade finance are where the same discipline can be applied next.
We are deliberately building this in the order that lasts: standard first, access second, scale last.
Team
The people behind the platform.
A small, deliberately composed team combining entrepreneurial origination, legal governance and a capital markets perspective.
Sandro Mathis
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Strategy · Capital · Origination · Partnerships
Dženita Gaši, MLaw
Legal, Compliance & Governance
Legal structuring · Contracts · Compliance · Governance
Robert Schittler
Senior Strategic Advisor — Capital Markets & Structured Finance
Institutional perspective · Capital markets · Structured finance
Contact
For strategic partner, investor or advisory conversations.
Please contact us directly. Every conversation is treated as confidential.
Company
Nova Capital Partners AG (in formation), Lucerne, Switzerland