The need for infrastructure development in Africa is significant. This is one of the driving forces behind our Infrastructure Finance team to build prosperity in Africa through innovative infrastructure funding. Our teams based in Nigeria and Johannesburg have financed several high-profile infrastructure projects across Africa the past decade.
The team fulfills clients’ infrastructure finance needs through: project finance; export credit finance; on-balance sheet lending or a combination thereof across the entire capital structure to senior debt.
The team’s expertise stretches across key infrastructure sectors, including: Public Private Partnerships (PPPs); power; renewable energy; ICT; roads; rail; ports; water; industrial and manufacturing facilities; and state-owned enterprises. They also tailor funding solutions for infrastructure projects by structuring the most appropriate solutions to meet clients’ specific needs.
Our core services include:
- Arranging and underwriting senior and mezzanine finance (including inflation-linked debt), on a non-recourse or on-balance sheet basis
- Financial advisory services to private companies, consortia and governments
- Equity investments in infrastructure projects and infrastructure-enabling organisations
- Financing the import and export of capital goods and services across Africa with export credit agencies
- Arranging, structuring and underwriting asset-backed financing structures, including operating leases, finance leases, senior debt, junior debt and equity tranches for movable assets, including rolling stock, yellow metal and industrial equipment
