Project Finance Advisory Services
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Financely structures project finance transactions for sponsors, developers, and operators seeking debt, equity, mezzanine capital, guarantees, and credit enhancement for bankable projects. To move forward on a live mandate, submit your deal.
Project Finance Structuring For Bankable Transactions
Project finance is won or lost on structure. Capital providers want a coherent transaction, a credible sponsor, a defined construction and operating plan, a realistic source of repayment, and a package that survives diligence. Financely helps clients structure and present projects so lenders, funds, and capital partners can assess them properly.
We work across energy, infrastructure, industrial, and real asset transactions where the financing case depends on project economics, documentation, counterparties, contracts, and execution discipline.
Who We Work With
Developers, sponsors, asset owners, project companies, and operators seeking capital for construction, expansion, acquisition, or recapitalization.
What We Help Structure
Senior debt, mezzanine finance, sponsor equity raises, bridge facilities, standby instruments, guarantees, and blended capital stacks.
Where Financely Fits
Financely operates as a transaction-led capital advisory desk. We help frame the financing case, identify the gaps that kill lender appetite, and position the project for review. Where regulated execution is required, execution may be carried out through suitable partners.
Well-prepared project finance mandates usually show a clear use of proceeds, a realistic capital stack, credible contracts, a defined development status, and a repayment case tied to project cash flow, asset value, or both.
Typical Use Cases
| Use Case | Typical Focus |
|---|---|
| Energy Projects | Solar, storage, conventional power, and related infrastructure requiring construction or term capital. |
| Infrastructure | Projects with concession, utility, transport, industrial, or public-private revenue logic. |
| Industrial Expansion | Plants, processing assets, and operating facilities needing structured growth capital. |
| Project Acquisition | Transactions where sponsors acquire or refinance operating or near-operational assets. |
| Credit Enhancement | Guarantees, standby letters of credit, or support instruments required for contracts or funding conditions. |
What Usually Needs To Be Fixed
Weak Capital Stack Logic
Many projects ask for debt before the equity, guarantees, reserves, and contingency logic are properly framed.
Incomplete Documentation
Financial models, cost breakdowns, permits, contracts, and technical material often exist in fragments rather than as a coherent lender file.
Unclear Repayment Case
A project is not funded because the story sounds good. The repayment path has to be visible, credible, and defensible.
Poor Market Positioning
Even strong projects miss traction when they are presented to the wrong capital providers or packaged with the wrong financing ask.
Project finance is not a matter of circulating a teaser and hoping capital appears. Projects must pass underwriting, diligence, compliance review, and commercial scrutiny.
Our Process
We review the transaction, assess the capital requirement, structure the financing case, and package the mandate for funding review. That can include debt strategy, equity positioning, instrument support, document preparation, and transaction presentation.
1. Submission
You submit the project and the core material for review.
2. Structuring Review
We assess the capital stack, documentation quality, and likely financing path.
3. Packaging
We shape the lender-facing or investor-facing file around a bankable case.
4. Execution Path
The transaction is positioned for review by suitable capital providers or partners.
Need Help Structuring A Project Finance Mandate?
If you have a live project and need a serious capital strategy, submit the mandate with the available documents and funding requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Financely do in project finance?
We help structure, package, and position project finance mandates so they can be reviewed by appropriate lenders, investors, or execution partners.
Do you work only on large projects?
No. We work on mid-market and larger mandates where the transaction case is commercially coherent and the financing stack can be properly structured.
Can you help with both debt and equity?
Yes. Depending on the transaction, the project may require senior debt, mezzanine capital, sponsor equity, guarantees, or a blended structure.
What should I submit first?
A short project summary, funding requirement, use of proceeds, financial model if available, development status, and supporting contracts or technical documents are a good starting point.
Financely is not a bank and does not guarantee funding. All mandates are subject to review, underwriting, KYC, AML, sanctions screening, legal documentation, market appetite, and execution feasibility.
Independent Capital Advisory
About Financely
Financely is an independent capital adviser focused on trade finance, project finance, commercial real estate and M&A funding. We structure, underwrite and place transactions through regulated partners across banks, funds and insurers.
Our work is transaction-specific. We assess the underlying financing requirement, commercial structure, repayment mechanics, collateral, documentation and counterparty risks before preparing opportunities for lender or investor review.
In trade and commodity finance, this includes analysis of the underlying trade, payment mechanics, market evidence, collateral controls and compliance risks. Engagements are undertaken on a best-efforts basis and do not constitute a commitment to lend or invest. All transactions remain subject to KYC, AML, due diligence, credit approval and counterparty requirements.
Trade Finance Expertise
Institutional Trade Finance Experience
Financely combines experience across documentary credits, structured trade finance, commodity finance, structured credit and working-capital facilities with transaction structuring, underwriting preparation and capital placement capabilities.
Our trade finance capabilities cover import, export, pre-shipment, post-shipment and commodity-backed financing structures across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. We assess the commercial transaction alongside the proposed financing structure, including payment mechanics, counterparties, collateral, repayment sources and transaction controls.
Financely supports importers, exporters, commodity traders, manufacturers and other operating companies with structuring, underwriting preparation and placement of financing opportunities with banks, private credit funds, specialty lenders, insurers and other institutional capital providers.
Our work may include documentary credit structures, supplier financing, receivables facilities, inventory financing, borrowing-base facilities, pre-export finance and other structured working-capital solutions. Each mandate is developed around the underlying trade flow, credit profile and requirements of prospective financing providers.
Trade Finance Capabilities
- Documentary letters of credit under UCP 600
- Standby letters of credit under ISP98
- UPAS and supplier-payment structures
- Import and export financing
- Pre-export and pre-shipment facilities
- Post-shipment financing
- Receivables discounting and financing
- Inventory-backed facilities
- Commodity-backed working-capital facilities
- Borrowing-base financing structures
- Collateral-control structures
- Structured credit and private debt facilities
Underwriting & Execution
- Transaction structure and financing analysis
- Trade-flow and repayment-source assessment
- Counterparty and commercial-document review
- Collateral and security-package structuring
- Cash-control and repayment mechanisms
- KYC, AML and compliance coordination
- Credit memorandum and lender-package preparation
- Financial and transaction data-room preparation
- Lender and capital-provider identification
- Financing structure and term-sheet coordination
- Documentation-process coordination
- Financing placement and execution support
Financely's trade finance capabilities include postgraduate finance qualifications and professional experience across banking, structured credit, documentary trade finance, working-capital finance and cross-border commodity transactions. Sector exposure includes energy, metals, agricultural commodities, industrial products and general import-export trade.
Advisory Services
Find the Right Financing Service
Select the financing category relevant to your transaction. Each mandate is assessed based on transaction structure, capital requirement, execution readiness and lender suitability.
Trade Finance Advisory
Structuring and placement for importers, exporters, commodity traders and companies executing cross-border transactions. Mandates may involve documentary credits, commodity-backed facilities, receivables, inventory and structured working capital.
Project Finance Advisory
Debt and capital advisory for renewable energy, infrastructure, industrial and other capital-intensive projects. Financely supports sponsors with financing structure, lender preparation and capital placement.
Commercial Real Estate Finance
Capital advisory for commercial property acquisitions, developments, bridge transactions, construction projects and refinancing requirements.
M&A and Acquisition Finance
Capital structuring for acquisitions, buyouts, sponsor-backed transactions and strategic corporate purchases. Mandates may combine senior debt, private credit, bridge capital and mezzanine financing.
Private Credit and Structured Debt
Bespoke debt structures for companies and sponsors requiring institutional capital outside conventional bank lending parameters.
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