Project Finance Services
Washington International project finance services are normally engaged on the basis of a Mandate agreed upon with the project's sponsors or potential investors. This Mandate may call upon Washington International to perform some or all of the following tasks during project preparation and implementation:
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Prestructuring & due diligence:
- A detailed onsite analysis of the proposed investment is conducted, and due diligence on the sponsors, their operations and proposed long-term role in the project is carried out, with the aim is of improving project formulation and the likelihood of financial success in the international marketplace.
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Preparation of project financing documents:
- Washington International directly prepares or assists the client in preparing an Information Memorandum or Business Plan designed to demonstrate the attractiveness of the investment to potential equity or debt financiers. Besides describing a soundly designed, well-structured and bankable project, this document also provides technical and financial background information, and describes the proposed funding structure and potential funding sources.
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Negotiation of financial package:
- Washington International normally stays with its clients after initial "Road Show" presentations, providing active support and assistance during all phases and steps of the financing mobilization process, particularly during the negotiation stage, and ending with the closing of a satisfactory project finance deal.
- Washington International normally stays with its clients after initial "Road Show" presentations, providing active support and assistance during all phases and steps of the financing mobilization process, particularly during the negotiation stage, and ending with the closing of a satisfactory project finance deal.
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Management consulting for the project implementation phase:
- Following the completion of the financing, Washington International is ready, at the client's request, to provide further support in the form of ongoing management advisory services during project implementation and beyond.
Washington International sectoral expertise and project examples include:
- Agroindustry, including a subspecialty on the production, processing and marketing of organic and natural foods;
- - Financing by IFC and DEG of AgroGuayabito, S.A., a $32 million industrial tomato and asparagus production and processing project in coastal Peru, (AGIC).
- - Financing of the expansion and diversification of a $40 million project for the largest dairy and juice producer in the Dominican Republic, (WTIG).
- Electric power generation with an emphasis on renewables;
- - Financing of the Río Bobos 10 MW/$18 million mini-hydroelectric project in Guatemala, from the feasibility study to the information memorandum phases(AGIC).
- - Financing of the expansion and diversification of a $40 million project for the largest dairy and juice producer in the Dominican Republic, (WTIG).
- Transportation, including ports and highways, and telecommunications;
- - Elaboration of pre-feasibility studies and support for financing Manzanillo International Terminals, a $110 million private container port on the Atlantic Coast of Panama (AGIC).
- - Financing by the Inter American Investment Corporation of the first VSAT telecommunications project ($45 million cost), in Argentina (WTIG).
- Capital markets including the set-up and operation of private equity funds;
- - Organization and ongoing management of "Estrella Americana", the first and still the largest private equity investment fund operating in Chile, (Intl. Links).
- - Financing by the Inter American Investment Corporation of the first VSAT telecommunications project ($45 million cost), in Argentina (WTIG).
- Housing and urban infrastructure finance, including water, wastewater and solid waste management;
- - Municipal infrastructure development in the Municipality of Soyapango, El Salvador, arranged locally through a private bank and CABEI(AGIC).
- - Merger of the Quito water and sewerage companies, assisted by legal and financial specialists (Intl. Links).
- Private higher education;
- - Financing of expansion program of large private university in Brazil (WTIG).
- - Elaboration of a diagnostic and strategy study, and securing of $16 million financing by AFD/Proparco for the expansion project of a major(not for profit) university in Dominican Republic (WTIG).
- - Preparation of Information Memorandum to secure financing for an $80 million expansion of a major private university in Brazil(WTIG).
- General manufactoring and consumer goods;
- - A $45 million financing by the IFC of the expansion of manufacturing facilities and debt restructuring of Brazil's largest ceramic tile producer (WTIG).
- - Financing by IFC, DEG and a bank syndicate of a $100 million expansion by the largest consumer goods company in Central America (WTIG).
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CONTACT INFORMATION
- Contact: Claudio A. Pardo
Title: Managing Director
Email: cpardo@washfin.com
Phone: 1-301-299-4754
Contact: Phillip W. Rourk
Title: Managing Director
Email: prourk@washfin.com
Phone: 503-7850-0808
Contact: Jean-Pierre Schwartz
Title: Managing Director
Email: jpschwartz@washfin.com
Phone:1-202-785-5135