Rubber-processing plant
Côte d’Ivoire
$80M+
FOR PROJECT OWNERS
Building the project is only part of the journey.
Submit a ProjectYou know your project, your market and the opportunity you are building. Our role is to help translate that opportunity into a project that institutional capital can properly assess, understand and finance.
ADVISORY EXPERIENCE
Projects advised across multiple sectors and African markets.
A selection of projects and financing mandates Niofar has advised, structured or supported:
Peanut-oil refinery
Senegal
$85M
Pineapple & soybean processing
Ghana
$20M / $50M
Telecom financing
Senegal & Mauritania
$25M
Mining-equipment operating finance
Burkina Faso
$25M
Selected solar projects
Zambia & South Africa
$180M+
Integrated logistics hubs
Côte d’Ivoire & Tanzania
$83M
Steel & agricultural commodities
Ghana
TRADE FINANCE
FINANCING NETWORK
The types of financing partners we work with.
Development finance institutions
Commercial & regional banks
Private credit & debt funds
Private equity & infrastructure funds
Trade-finance providers
EPC+F & strategic partners
Impact & blended-finance investors
Guarantee & credit-enhancement institutions
Client and partner names and confidential transaction details are not published.
ANNUAL INTAKE
Applications for the annual cycle are open from January through April.
Applications for the annual cycle are received from January through April. Once that window closes, our focus shifts to field visits, mandate selection, investment readiness and then capital raising from October. New projects received after April are directed to the following annual cycle.
JAN–APR
Applications & assessment
MAY
On-the-ground Roadshow
JUN–JUL
Mandates & preparation
AUG–SEP
Readiness completion
OCT–DEC
Capital raising
HOW WE ENGAGE
An engagement that evolves with the needs of the project.
01 — Assessment & Investment Readiness
We assess the project, identify gaps and define the work required before institutional capital is approached. This phase is supported by a fixed investment-readiness retainer, determined by the scope and amount of work required.
02 — Documentation & Specialist Workstreams
Where specialist work is required, Niofar can centralize and coordinate deliverables through its network of technical, financial, legal and other experts. A deliverable-based coordination fee may apply where the project owner asks us to manage those workstreams.
03 — Capital Raising
Once the project is sufficiently prepared, we target financing partners whose mandates genuinely fit the opportunity and coordinate engagement, due diligence and progression toward transaction. Compensation includes a success fee linked to capital successfully raised.
04 — Post-Close Financial Coordination
For selected projects, our role may continue after financial close to coordinate financial processes, disbursements, liquidity, currency exposure and stakeholder obligations. A meaningful long-term post-close role may include equity participation aligned with the project’s long-term success.
Exact commercial terms — including fees, success fees, third-party work and any equity participation — are agreed case by case within the mandate. We do not publish a standard price schedule because the work required varies materially from one project to another.
Danielle Ciribassi & Alphonse Kadjo
Niofar Capital · On the ground
OUR APPROACH
Preparation comes before capital.
We work alongside project owners to understand where the project really stands, what is missing and what must be strengthened before institutional capital is engaged. Investment readiness, capital raising and, where appropriate, post-close financial coordination are parts of the same journey.
“Capital does not make a project ready. Preparation makes a project financeable.”
BEFORE WE BEGIN
What project owners should know.
You do not need to be fully investment-ready before approaching us.
Submission does not guarantee an engagement or an investor introduction.
Preparation comes before fundraising. We do not market a project simply because capital is urgently required.
Technical, legal, environmental, market or other specialist work may be required.
We do not guarantee financing.
Investor outreach is targeted, and confidential project information is handled with control.
A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
A mandate works when both sides keep it moving.
Niofar prepares, coordinates and supports the process. The project owner remains central to execution: providing information, making decisions, giving access to teams and sites, and responding throughout preparation and diligence. The strongest outcomes come from a close, transparent working relationship.
PROJECT SELECTION
We select both the project and the people capable of moving it forward.
Industrial potential matters, but so does the project owner behind it. A promising project becomes difficult to finance if the team behind it cannot respond, adapt or commit to the work required.
01
Project potential
A credible industrial opportunity with a realistic pathway to implementation and institutional financing.
02
Skin in the game
Meaningful commitment from the project owner — capital, assets, time, relationships or other resources already invested in moving the project forward.
03
Responsiveness
The ability to provide information, make decisions and keep preparation and due diligence moving.
04
Flexibility
A willingness to address weaknesses, strengthen the project and consider changes to structure when the evidence or financing requirements call for it.
Projects are rooted in real markets and real economies.
TRADE FINANCE
Short-cycle capital. Real underlying trade.
Alongside long-term project financing, Niofar works with established operators whose growth depends on recurring working-capital facilities.
Our current mandates include construction materials — including steel and cement — and agricultural commodities, where capital is deployed against identifiable procurement, inventory and trading cycles.
These opportunities typically require revolving facilities on approximately 90-day cycles, allowing financing partners to support repeat transactions rather than a single long-duration project.
Construction materials
Steel, cement and related supply chains.
Agricultural commodities
Aggregation, procurement and movement of physical goods.
Revolving working capital
Recurring facilities aligned with short trade cycles.
Building an industrial project in Africa?
If your project is seeking institutional capital and you are prepared to invest in getting it ready, we would like to understand what you are building.
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