The Practice
Financing, project management, and maritime infrastructure — not three businesses, but one merchant-capital practice manifested in three operational forms.
Our Approach
Merchant capital is not a collection of services. It is a single practice — where financing, construction, and shipping reinforce one another. Each discipline feeds the other two.
We invest alongside our counterparties. Risk is shared, alignment is total.
From financing to freight, every link in the chain is under our operational control.
We stay through disbursement. No opportunistic exits, no facade mandates.
01 — Financing
We arrange and principal capital for sovereign and institutional counterparties across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Gulf. Our financing practice sits on the same side of the table as the project — we co-invest, we co-risk, and we stay through disbursement.
Arranged to date
Sovereign counterparties
“We sit on the same side of the table as the project.”
02 — Project Management
Owner's-side delivery on capital projects in oil, gas, mining, and infrastructure. We manage scope, schedule, and cost on behalf of the principal — not the contractor. Our project teams have delivered across five countries and three continents.
Capital projects delivered
Countries
“On time, on budget, on the owner's terms.”
03 — Maritime Infrastructure
We own and operate maritime tonnage on multi-year time-charter parties. Our vessels move the commodities our trading desk trades, on the corridors our project teams have de-risked. The integration is the point.
Vessels under management
Per day average TCE
“The vessel is the balance sheet, moving.”
Methodology
Every mandate follows a rigorous four-phase process, designed for sovereign and institutional counterparties.
Methodology
Methodology
Methodology
Methodology
Global Presence
Three continents, fifteen economies, a network of sovereign and institutional counterparties.
Continents
Economies covered
NOC counterparties
Mandates arranged
Operating headquarters in Dubai. Direct access to Gulf sovereign principals.
Office in Pointe-Noire. Oil, gas, and mining operations across Congo, Cameroon, Gabon.
Critical minerals corridors in DRC, Zambia. Institutional partnerships in Kenya.
They understand the project because they financed it, built it, and shipped on it. That is not a service offering. That is a firm.
Trading, B2B Software, and B2G Sovereign Software — extending the practice into new domains.
Research Brief — Volume I
Pages200+
Economies covered15
Commodity corridors8
PublicationQ3 2026
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