Our Resources Finance team specialises in the design and implementation of sophisticated financial solutions for companies undertaking major mining, oil and gas infrastructure projects in Africa and the rest of the world.

Building nations, building wealth

• A wealth of experience and commitment to innovation drives our team to create unique solutions to suit the needs of our clients.
• Nedbank enjoys a superior lending capacity and our team‘s enhanced focus on London and Toronto based mining companies allows for better servicing of the junior mining market.

The team provides several comprehensive financial products including Corporate Advisory Services, which are housed in
our Corporate Finance team.

Our Resources Finance team provides the following funding solutions:

• Acquisition Finance:

Arranging and underwriting of debt packages, incorporating hybrid debt instruments, for the purpose of enabling clients to acquire target companies in the resource sector. The offering includes the design, structuring and implementation of innovative funding solutions, including interest rate hedging programmes and inflation hedges as well as cross currency swaps in order to protect cash flows to service the debt.

• Structured Debt Finance:

Developing innovative finance structures, including tax-efficient options and the embedding of other financial instruments.

• Export Credit Finance:

Originating, arranging and implementing financial transactions supported by export credit agencies, developmental finance institutions and political risk providers. The beneficiaries are usually limited-recourse projects and existing entities across all industry sectors and various jurisdictions.

• Oil & Gas Finance:

Funding of oil and gas projects worldwide by co-arranging project finance debt with other syndicate members.

• Commodity Hedging:

Extensive experience in customising metal hedging solutions to meet client, shareholder and price protection needs. Most base and precious metals can be hedged using a wide variety of vanilla and exotic derivative instruments to structure both long- and short-term hedging programmes.

• Metal Stream Finance:

Allowing for the forward purchase of key metals, thereby creating immediate liquidity for mining companies as an alternative to project financing.

• Project Finance:

Arranging and underwriting of greenfields and brownfields projects with limited recourse project finance debt. The project finance package would typically incorporate the design, structuring and execution of the senior and standby debt facilities, the commodity and interest rate hedging structures and the overall transaction management and day-to-day monitoring of the life of the transaction, using innovative funding solutions based on an in-depth understanding of the local and international mining industries.

Mark Tyler’s presentation at Mining Indaba 2013 (519 KB)