Financial solutions built around real constraints

Our work starts with the financial outcome a client is trying to achieve, rather than a predetermined product. We have worked across financing, trade, investment markets and transaction readiness, developing structures that combine African market understanding with international financial-market access.

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Selected Experience

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    Securities-Backed USD Financing

    Developed a USD financing proposition enabling qualifying African investors to unlock liquidity against internationally custodied investment portfolios, without necessarily selling their underlying assets.

    The structure combines global custody, securities-backed lending and portfolio management within a single cross-border framework.

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    Offshore-Funded Naira Financing

    Developed alternative Naira financing structures for Nigerian corporates facing high domestic borrowing costs.

    The approach combines offshore USD funding with foreign-exchange risk management and local credit support, with the objective of delivering predictable Naira obligations on more competitive terms.

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    Trade Finance & Structured Liquidity

    Structured trade-finance solutions for African importers using combinations of local-bank credit support and offshore banking capacity.

    Our work has included SBLC-backed structures, offshore letters of credit and alternative funding routes designed to address liquidity, counterparty-risk and cross-border execution constraints.

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    Institutional Credit Distribution

    Supported the distribution of African institutional credit exposures to financial-sector counterparties, including investor identification, transaction structuring and counterparty engagement.

    This work demonstrates our ability to connect existing credit assets with alternative pools of institutional capital where traditional origination and distribution channels may be constrained.

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    Structured Access to African Markets

    Developed structures enabling international investors to access opportunities in African financial markets that can be difficult to execute directly.

    Our work has included leveraged exposure to Nigerian fixed-income markets using offshore financing, derivatives and foreign-exchange structures designed around the investor's required risk and return profile.

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    Aviation & Asset-Backed Financing

    Worked with an African aviation operator on financing structures addressing the specific requirements of asset-backed lenders.

    Our work considered lender security, aircraft protections, cash-flow domiciliation and repayment mechanics to develop a financing structure capable of meeting both borrower requirements and institutional credit expectations.

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    Corporate & Acquisition Financing

    Advised African businesses on multi-million-dollar financing requirements for working capital, expansion and acquisitions.

    Our work has included evaluating appropriate debt and equity structures, identifying potential international capital providers and developing financing propositions capable of being presented to institutional investors.

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    Transaction Readiness

    Developed a technology enabled platform that analyses why otherwise viable African projects and businesses struggle to attract institutional capital.

    Through our transaction-readiness work, including the development of InfraForge, we have assessed bankability, risk allocation, financial structure, documentation and investor requirements to identify practical steps towards a financeable transaction.

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Securities-Backed USD Financing

Developed a USD financing proposition enabling qualifying African investors to unlock liquidity against internationally custodied investment portfolios, without necessarily selling their underlying assets.

The structure combines global custody, securities-backed lending and portfolio management within a single cross-border framework.

One capability. Different applications.

The structures vary because the problems vary.

Across our work, the underlying approach remains consistent:

  1. Understand the financial objective.
  2. Identify the constraints preventing conventional solutions from working.
  3. Determine whether a better route can be structured through our market access, relationships and financial capabilities.

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