Case study: Natural resources
Sugar plantation and milling facility
Management of US$140m refinancing
Challenge
- To achieve a successful refinancing, whilst identifying the best industrial partner to take advantage of the significant emerging market opportunity in Europe
Approach
- Focusing negotiations with a single trade partner with the appetite to invest in the project’s next stage of development. As well as managing a complex sale process, Corven were engaged to manage a refinancing of the project debt package mid-term, with a view to ensuring a long-term financing structure to enable the project to continue its pace of growth.
Results
- Deal completed with one of Europe’s largest companies in the sugar sector
- Joint-venture established with the incumbent project sponsors
- Existing banks reinvested in the project demonstrating their support
- Future development of the project accelerated through the addition of a significant trade partner
iness model. The integration is heralded as a case example in gaining buy-in from staff
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