United Capital Brochure UCP_Brochure | Page 9

INVESTMENT BANKING SERVICE OFFERINGS Project Finance Our Project Finance desk provides cross border bespoke nancial advisory, structuring and arranging services to clients across Africa by leveraging on our extensive expertise, unrivalled track record and vast network of relationships with providers of capital. Our range of expertise covers industries and sectors which are critical to economic growth; oil & gas, power, infrastructure and mining. We are the leading power sector nancial advisers in Nigeria, United Capital acknowledges that quality infrastructure is the having structured the nancing for the acquisition of most of the backbone of any developing economy. We are partnering with electricity generation companies privatized in the 2013 governments and private sector stakeholders across Africa to privatization exercise conducted by the Nigerian government. develop key infrastructure to drive economic growth. Power Infrastructure Oil & Gas Mining Our Project Finance desk has raised capital for industry leaders across the oil & gas value chain - upstream, midstream and Africa has tremendous potential within its mining sector due to the scale of its mineral endowment. United Capital is well positioned by downstream companies – in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. In virtue of its continent-wide reach to help mining companies meet 2015, we structured the biggest nancing arranged by an their nancing requirements on mining projects. African Investment bank that year. Debt & Equity Arranging and Structuring Financial Advisory We offer innovative debt and equity solutions to meet the Our expertise enables us to adopt a whole-life approach to project’s funding requirements, drawing on our extensive project nance, guiding clients from the initial stages of a capital relationships with providers of capital. We assist our clients in raise all the way to nancial close. We develop critical structuring the nancing they require to pursue acquisitions, supporting packages including nancial models, term sheets, growth opportunities, working capital requirements or teasers and Information Memorandum. We also supervise, restructurings. monitor and coordinate work streams involving other transaction Facility Agency Upon a successful capital raise through a loan syndication, we are often appointed as Facility Agent to act as administrator of the facility. This role involves the coordination of information ow between the borrower and the lenders in a syndicated facility as well as monitoring of nancial covenants and information undertakings following execution of the nance documents. 07 SERVICE OFFERINGS Negotiation Support We understand that negotiation is a key part of any successful nancing process. We provide maximum support to our clients by providing negotiation support backed up by the up-to-date market research and intelligence to ensure that the most favourable terms possible are secured.