As a leading player in infrastructure and project finance across sub-Saharan Africa, our experienced and multi-disciplinary Infrastructure Sector Solutions team provides advisory and funding solutions across key sectors. These include energy, power and renewables, asset finance, transport, aviation, telecoms, social infrastructure, water, industrial facilities, midstream oil and gas, concessions and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
Our core services include:
- Arranging, structuring and underwriting senior, subordinated and mezzanine finance (including inflation-linked debt), on a non-recourse, limited recourse or full recourse basis
- Financial advisory services to private companies, sponsors, 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
- Equity gearings through debt or preference share structures
- Arranging, structuring and underwriting asset-backed financings, including operating leases, finance leases, instalment sales, senior debt, junior debt and equity tranches for movable assets like rolling stock, yellow metal and industrial equipment
- Arranging, structuring and underwriting pre-delivery payment funding, senior debt, junior debt in various forms and equity tranches for the financing of aircraft and aircraft lessors under an African and European mandate
Our clients benefit from:
- An experienced, multi-disciplinary team with a strong focus on designing tailored financial solutions, which has enabled us to lead the financing for many high-profile projects across the African continent
- A partnership approach with the ability to invest across the entire capital structure, including senior debt, subordinated/mezzanine debt and equity
- Access to FirstRand Bank’s balance sheet to underwrite large project finance facilities
- Access to FirstRand Bank’s leading offering in corporate banking, retail banking, risk management and trade finance
- Access to a strong network of international funding partners including commercial banks, pension funds, asset managers, export credit agencies, development finance institutions and multilaterals
- Deep technical and sub-Saharan Africa jurisdictional knowledge to assess and mitigate key risks and optimise stakeholder returns
- In-country expertise – we have presence in 12 African countries and a deal footprint in 32 countries
- A strong track record in creating infrastructure paper that is attractive to the broader investment market
