Platforms
Capital structuring, investment design, financing strategy, transaction planning and long-term asset management.
This pillar provides the financial architecture that supports the Group’s investment activity across sectors and markets. It brings together capital structuring, investment design, financing strategy, transaction planning and long-term asset management capability. We structure investment activity to be commercially credible, institutionally bankable and able to support the range of capital participation that large-scale African infrastructure and real asset development requires.
The approach is designed to align capital with the nature of the asset, its stage of development, the regulatory environment, the counterparty structure and the long-term requirements of the opportunity. Through disciplined structuring and active platform management, we seek to develop investment frameworks that are bankable, scalable and positioned for institutional capital participation across African markets.
Ownership arrangements suited to the sponsors and stage of each asset.
Borrowing terms matched to the cash flows and risk profile of the asset.
The mix and sequencing of capital over the life of a project.
Assigning each risk to the party best placed to manage it.
Legal and governance structures through which capital is held and deployed.
The process and documentation that take an investment to close.
Capital is aligned with the nature of the asset, its stage of development, the regulatory environment and the counterparty structure.
Depending on the stage of the asset, the financing requirements and the counterparty framework, the Group may participate in one of five roles.
Leading the development of a platform from structuring through to operation.
Providing the cornerstone equity around which other capital is assembled.
Participating through instruments shaped to the commercial profile of the asset.
Investing alongside other sponsors where the Group’s capabilities add to delivery.
Supporting governance, management and operations over the life of the asset.