Portfolio

Barbet Capital

  • 2024: M&A capital raising mandate (ongoing) for a London-listed shareholder of an established energy trading platform in SA with a specific focus on wind projects.
  • 2024: R4.8bn 150MW greenfield energy wheeling windfarm – first windfarm in Mpumalanga.
  • 2023: R2.8bn 195MW greenfield multi-buyer private solar PV power project financing (including full equity and debt raising). Project closed in 6 months from PPA signature.
  • 2023: Pre-feasibility study for a manufacturing plant, to be undertaken by a blue-chip mining company, that will produce components for solar panel manufacturing in SA.
  • 2023: R500m 2 x REIPPP R2 solar PV plants (debt refinancing).
  • 2023: R2.3bn 100MW greenfield solar PV power project finance with mining company off-take.
  • 2022: R4bn 200MW greenfield private power project finance with mining company off-take.

James Price

  • 2021: R3bn sale of a renewable energy portfolio to infrastructure equity fund.
  • 2020: R320m preference share facility for a large SA BEE player for renewable energy and oil & gas purposes.
  • 2019: R3.3bn sale of a grain handling and storage business.
  • 2019: R1.5bn brownfields project financing of an alcohol plant expansion.
  • 2017: R1bn wind farm buyout by an infrastructure equity funding consortium.
  • 2016: ZAR125m BEE client’s renewable project’s equity financing.
  • 2015: ZAR1bn BEE fund’s renewable energy portfolio equity financing.
  • 2014: ZAR500m 2 x REIPPP R2 solar PV plants (greenfield project financing).
  • 2012: ZAR1.5bn REIPPP R1 wind farm (greenfield project financing) (first REIPPP project in SA with CPI debt).
  • 2010: ZAR1.75bn and ZAR1.8bn large scale water pipeline project financing.
  • 2009: R1bn PPP government head office project financing (100% CPI debt).
  • 2008: R500m sugar mill expansion in Mozambique with ECIC export credit finance.

Hugh Hawarden

  • 2021: Gas power plant restructuring – negotiated the refinancing documentation for a USD1bn CCGT project in West Africa.
  • 2019: R1.5bn brownfields project financing of an alcohol plant expansion.
  • 2017: USD1bn CCGT project in Ghana (Project Finance’s African Deal of the Year).
  • 2015: ZAR2bn blended finance fund for small renewable energy projects in South Africa.
  • 2014: ZAR500m 2 x REIPPP R2 solar PV Plants (greenfield project financing).
  • 2012: ZAR250m REIPPP R2 CPI-debt funded small-hydro project, first EPCM contracted REIPPP project.
  • 2011: R3bn REIPPP R1 solar PV plant.
  • 2011: EUR40m loan to FirstRand Bank from European DFI for small renewable energy projects.
  • 2010: ZAR1.75bn and ZAR1.8bn large scale water pipeline project financing.
  • 2009: EUR400m European export credit backed loan to Eskom for Kusile boilers.
  • 2009: ECIC Financing for Ghanaian substation.