Structuring Capital Around Projects

Project finance is at the core of Synterra's business. We assist project owners, investors and strategic partners in converting commercial opportunities into appropriately structured investment propositions.

Our capabilities encompass financial modelling, project economics, capital structuring, debt capacity analysis, equity structuring, investment memoranda, risk allocation, lender and investor engagement, transaction negotiation and financial close.

Where appropriate, we develop structures incorporating senior and subordinated debt, equity, preferred capital, structured commodity finance, offtake finance, prepayment arrangements and other project-specific financing instruments.

Our approach is driven by the economics of the underlying project rather than a predetermined financing product.

Synterra originates, evaluates, acquires, finances and develops mining and mineral-resource opportunities. Our technical and commercial capabilities cover geological assessment, resource evaluation, due diligence, feasibility analysis, metallurgical assessment, mine development, mineral processing, tailings retreatment, project finance, acquisition structuring and commodity marketing.

Particular areas of interest include gold, copper, critical minerals, tailings and brownfield mining opportunities.

Our mining team combines decades of operational experience with financial and transaction expertise, allowing Synterra to evaluate a resource simultaneously as a geological asset, an operating project and an investment.

Synterra provides project-development, financing and commercial services across the oil and gas value chain. Our approach combines project finance with an understanding of physical commodity markets.

Capabilities include upstream project evaluation, downstream infrastructure, storage, logistics, commodity finance, crude oil and refined-product trading, offtake structures, prepayment finance and structured commodity transactions.

We evaluate transactions not simply according to commodity price but according to the complete commercial chain: Supply → Logistics → Finance → Risk → Offtake → Settlement. This enables Synterra to structure transactions around identifiable physical commodity flows and creditworthy commercial counterparties.

Synterra's commodity activities complement its project-finance business. We develop and facilitate physical commodity transactions involving producers, traders, refiners, industrial consumers and financial counterparties.

Our focus includes crude oil, refined petroleum products, precious and base metals and selected agricultural commodities.

Commodity trading can also become an integral component of project financing, providing projects with identifiable buyers, predictable revenues and bankable offtake arrangements.

Reliable energy remains fundamental to Africa's industrial development. Synterra evaluates and structures energy projects serving industrial, mining, commercial and national infrastructure requirements.

Our interests encompass conventional generation, renewable energy, hybrid power systems, embedded generation and energy infrastructure.

Where appropriate, we integrate power development directly into mining and industrial projects, allowing energy security to become part of the underlying project-finance solution.

Agriculture remains one of Africa's largest economic opportunities. Synterra focuses on commercially scalable agricultural projects capable of combining production with processing, logistics and established markets.

Our interests encompass commercial farming, agricultural infrastructure, processing, storage, commodity trading and export-oriented projects.

We seek structures in which financing is supported by identifiable production, contracted markets and disciplined operational management.

Not every African project fits conventional bank lending criteria. Synterra develops alternative structures designed around the specific economics of an asset.

These can include structured commodity finance, offtake-backed finance, pre-export finance, asset-backed structures, SPVs, strategic equity, royalty structures and other forms of bespoke capital.

The objective remains constant: allocate risk to the parties best positioned to manage it and construct a financeable transaction around sustainable project cash flows.