Strategies
Strategies
Cameroon Stadium
To help Cameroon host the African Cup football tournament, Interlink assisted Yenigun, a Turkish construction company, win the concession from the government to build a €300 million soccer stadium and surrounding infrastructure. The stadium was designed by AECOM and was financed through Turk ExIm Bank. Subcontractors included a U.S. SME, Pacific Tristar, that had obtained OPIC (now DFC) financing with Interlink also acting as its financial advisor, for a construction equipment rental business in West Africa that was used for the project.
Micro Lending Zimbabwe
Interlink arranged $8 million from the Dutch government (FMO) and PTA Bank for Micro King, the largest micro lender in Zimbabwe, to provide SME and micro-lending. This funding came at a critical time for the country, and the company provided working capital to small, disadvantaged entrepreneurs.
Seed Fund/VC funds for Jamaica
To support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) structure a $25 million credit accommodation to the Development Bank of Jamaica, the Interlink team was hired to design Seed and Venture Capital funds to support innovative Jamaican companies. In addition to designing the funds, recommendations were made on how to improve the incubator and accelerator ecosystems to take advantage of the funding.
Restarting critical mining
Interlink assisted with the successful acquisition by a publicly traded mining company of a precious metals mine based in Utah. The Trixie Mine, which is renowned as potentially one of the highest-grade gold and silver mines in the world. The acquisition was for $177 million. Interlink’s Chairman, Tim Bridgewater, served as an advisor and interim CFO to raise approximately $30 million of equity and debt prior to the acquisition. Providing good jobs in a depressed rural area and sourcing products from U.S. in a time of strained supply chains and worldwide economic uncertainty is an example of the firm’s attempts to be inclusive and sustainable.
USAID COVID-19 RESPONSE IN ITALY
At the height of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy, USAID provided catalytic capital to Interlink to raise commercial funds for Italian manufacturers to convert their factories to producing Personal Protective Equipment to support the government’s efforts to combat the virus. Through an innovative virtual fund platform, Interlink raised $28 million dollars to complement the $2.5 million provided by USAID, and funded almost 30 companies in less than 18 months.
Ecuador Hospital
Romanian Renewable Energy and carbon credit Finance
Restart Energy, one of the most important independent suppliers of energy in Romania, has also launched the first tokenized CO2 Offset System. In addition to providing reliable power at the commercial and retail level, Restart Energy is a rooftop solar installation company and is currently developing 1 GW of utility-scale solar power in Romania. Interlink has arranged financing for $3.75 million in the company and is actively working with management to joint venture with large investors and EPC contractors to build out the various solar projects, as well as bringing its Carbon Credit Focused Non-Fungible Tokens (NTFS) to the U.S. marketplace.
Early-Stage Geothermal Development Finance
The Geothermal Development Facility (GDF) for Latin America, established in 2014, is focused on providing baseload renewable power by developing the region’s geothermal resources to augment the energy matrix. It has approved early-stage impact investments, ranging from a few hundred thousand to 9.8 million EUR, in projects in countries ranging from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile. It has recently expanded into Mexico as well. The fund’s groundbreaking work was recognized in 2017 and 2018 with an award for being the most innovative financial risk mitigation tool in Latin America.
Export financing
FDI Capital is a specialty lender focused on supporting SMEs by providing innovative import and export financing solutions. Backed by ExIm Bank and PEFCO, FDI Capital lends to small and disadvantaged businesses that are trying to export their products both from and to the United States. Loans have been made to small companies, many minority-owned, selling oil services to Tanzania, healthcare equipment to Mexico, and lumber to Europe, as well as to medium-sized companies selling highly engineered testing equipment to Romania. Loans have ranged from $350,000 to $15 million.
Solar panel manufacturing in South Korea
Affordable housing
Interlink arranged the financing for affordable housing in Mexico for two separate projects using Overseas Private Investment Corporation (now DFC) support. The first was a $10 million loan to support the construction and marketing of prefabricated housing for a social housing program operated by the Mexican government. Our client, PYMM, developed the land, placed prefabricated cement homes, and marketed them to a pre-approved list of government-supported families. Thousands of units were built providing the lowest socioeconomic families in Mexico with functional houses in well-kept neighborhoods. A second housing project funded by OPIC with a $3 million loan urbanized several hundred hectares of roads, sidewalks, and utilities for a developer to provide affordable housing to the private sector, in Northern Mexico.
Mexican Agribusiness
Nicaraguan farming
Interlink provided restructuring advice and bridge funding to the largest plantain producer in Nicaragua. Because of recent political unrest and natural disasters, the farm and packing plants located near Granada, Nicaragua were severely impacted and had difficulty servicing supply agreements to Chiquita and other large buyers. With advice on how to restructure the operations using regional experts and Interlink’s lead in working out the investment with the stakeholders, it also provided a bridge loan until a new capital structure was put in place.
IndiaN Solar MANUFACTURING Value Chain
One of the largest power and distribution transformer manufacturing companies in India is developing a multi-billion-dollar solar manufacturing supply chain with support from the Indian Government. With Interlink’s assistance, the company is developing one of India’s largest, integrated solar module manufacturing facilities that will process quartz into polysilicon and ultimately solar panels for sale domestically and internationaly.
AfricaN TRANSPORTation INFRASTRUCTURE
ICS is a financial advisor for a serveral hundred million dollar toll road linking Zambia to Tanzania through the Democratic Republic of Congo. The road, bridge and border cossing will significantly reduce carbon and increase the speed critical goods can be delivered across Africa. The new road will be financed by a consortia of Development Finance Institutions and developed by several European companies.
Agribusiness In Tanzania
A longstanding client of Interlink has entered into a partnership with a prominent businessman in Tanzania to address food security with the support of the new president of the country. Interlink is providing advice on the use of U.S. government agency support.
Geospacial Climate & Weather in The US
Interlink is working with a cutting edge weather and climate technology and data gathering company, to finance and commercialize next-generation geospatial intelligence for weather prediction and climate science.
Roof Top Solar
Interlink is working with one of the fastest growing rooftop solar panel developers/installers to significantly grow its base in Florida, Texas and Colorado by assisting it to raise the necessary capital to grow within the current markets as well as to expand geographically into new domestic markets.
Women Owned Businesses IN DRC
The largest bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo is working to expand lending to its small business and women-owned enterprises with the support of Development Financial Institutions.
Market Expansion of Hungarian Manufacturer
A 40 year old family owned company that provides humanely harvested goose and duck down, sustainably manufactured into quilts and pillows filled with feathers, down, wool, artificial fibers, plus other natural and synthetic materials in a geothermal-powered factory in Hungary is expanding to the US with the help of Interlink. This company also provides material to the apparel industry and exports 700 items to 40 countries worldwide. Through a joint venture with Interlink, the company has entered the U.S. marketplace focusing on re-down, or the recycling of down and feathers from previously used materials.