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Commodities and Resource Finance

A specialist finance and investment banking team for mining clients

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.

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Contact: Michael Meeser
Capital Markets
Phone number: +27 11 286 7350

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Published: 19 June 2009

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