Resource Finance

Investec Commodities and Resource Finance is an industry-focused specialist finance and investment banking team that forms part of Capital Markets in the Investec group.

As an international team with representation in Johannesburg, London and Sydney, our activities span the debt-equity spectrum, focusing on:

• Precious and base metals
• Minerals
• Oil and gas
• Emerging and developed markets

For mining clients, we offer the following specialised services:

Debt finance
Hedge and derivative products
Equity
 

Debt finance

We provide for junior and mid-tier mining companies that develop, expand or acquire projects in emerging and developed markets across the globe. We also finance black economic empowerment transactions in the South African mining industry.

Our debt finance products include:

• Limited and non-recourse project finance
• Corporate debt facilities
• Leveraged acquisition finance
• Export-credit facilities
• Receivables-backed and structured trade finance
   

Hedge and derivative products

Our products and services include:

• Hedging and structured derivative solutions in the precious and base metal market
• Advising and implementing appropriate hedging strategies for integrated project finance transactions

Trading and execution activities include:

• Hedging and structured derivative solutions in the precious and base metal markets
• Advising and implementing appropriate hedging strategies for an integrated project finance transaction
• Trading and execution activities

To support our role in this arena, we are a member of:

• London Metal Exchange (Category 2 clearing member) 

Equity

We invest in mining projects at a late exploration or pre-feasibility study stage and on a proprietary basis through participation in African Lion Limited, a specialist African mining equity fund - of which we are a founding shareholder.