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Performance Guarantee issuance backed by Indian bank counter-guarantee

Background

Annual turnover of customer: USD 10.0 million

Annual group turnover: Over USD 400.0 million

Facility Arranged: USD 2.6 million

The Company listed on Indian stock exchanges with over 3000 employees provides Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions & services to customers in India, North America, Europe, Australia and Middle-East and has executed projects in over 40 countries.

The Middle Eastern subsidiary of the company won an IT project from the Department of Municipal Affairs, Abu Dhabi and was required to provide a performance bank guarantee issued by a Middle-East domiciled bank in a short span of time. The group did not have any existing relationship with any Middle East domiciled bank.

Solution

Interlinkages Consultancy Limited (ICL) was exclusively mandated to arrange a performance guarantee issuance from a Middle-East bank. An Indian bank agreed to provide a counter guarantee.

ICL was successful in:

  • Finalizing a bank within 10 days with a very competitive pricing
  • Introducing a bank which had the credit appetite to provide support on a standalone basis to Company X for operations in Middle-East.
  • The performance risk was mitigated by counterindemnity from an Indian Bank.

Result

Company X was able to provide the performance guarantee well within the deadline and at approx. 25% lower pricing compared to the expected/ targeted cost.