Selected public transactions of Sydmor as arranger or adviser to
date include:
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- Ghana's first sovereign loan, a $80 mm oil
import facility via Citibank.
- a CFA 10 bn ($20 mm) oil indexed loan for the Ivorian Treasury
structured with a Brent hedge and funded by Banque Paribas.
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- A FF 400 mm facility syndicated by Dresdner Bank
for an Ivorian cocoa and coffee exporter (a first for a private
firm in sub-Sahara Africa).
- a $15 mm revolving facility for Pétroci, the Ivorian
state oil company, funded via Paribas.
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- A $40 mm oil import facility with Credit Suisse
First Boston (CSFB) and FF/ CFA dual-currency facilities of FF
90 mm via CCF and Paribas, both for the Ivorian refinery SIR.
- a CFA 9 bn Treasury issue by Cote d'Ivoire in its first
CFA offshore placement.
- Selected by Ashanti Goldfields to develop the first private
power project in Ghana (a 110MW gas fired plant), upon signing
a development consortium signing a development consortium including
Cegelec, an affiliate of Alstom ( France) and ESBI (Ireland).
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- A $19 mm leveraged acquisition of a minority
interest in a producing oil and gas field in Cote d'Ivoire
for a major US institutional investor.
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- The sale by the Ivorian Treasury to local and
international banks of 28 bn CFA ($ 40 mm) of loans held on local
companies.
- Design of a BOT structure to finance a $20 mm container scanner
contract by Heimann S.A. in Abidjan.
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- The acquisition by local investors of a controlling
interest in the privatization
of Socapalm, the largest agro industrial company in Cameroon.
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- The restructuring, acting for the Government
of Ghana, of debt owed by
state owned companies on their derivatives transactions with offshore
banks.
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- Set up of Cashmo Money Transfer, a UK based international money transfer firm serving 18 African countries.
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- Advised GTBank, the 5th largest bank in Nigeria, in the implantation of a banking network in Cameroon.
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