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Export Credit Agency backed long term financing

Background

Annual turnover of customer: New company

Annual group turnover: Over USD 550.0 million

Facility Arranged: USD 8.4 million

The Company, an Indian polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”) manufacturer had entered into a joint venture (JV) in Morocco for a green-field project to manufacture acid grade fluorspar for captive consumption in India. The project being a backward integration project for Company A was strategically critical for giving it efficient and reliable supplies.

The total project cost of USD 12.0 million was planned to be financed with debt : equity of 70:30.

As the project was green-field and in Africa involving a foreign company, Local/Regional banks had a very limited credit appetite and could not cater to this requirement.

Solution

Interlinkages Consultancy Limited (ICL) was exclusively appointed to arrange debt for this project.

ICL was successful in:

  • Structuring the loan proposal with buyback agreement between the African JV and Company A and highlighting the mining/ operational track record of the JV partner.
  • Leveraging its knowledge of credit appetite and strategy of various financial institutions, ICL was able to arrange the financing within the expected timeline through an Export Credit Agency.

Result

The JV was able to draw the loan and initiate the project development within the targeted timeline.