Infrastructure
Financing the transport, logistics, and connectivity infrastructure Africa is building
Africa's transport and logistics infrastructure carries the continent's trade ambition, yet most assets stall between concept and close because the financing model and commercial case, not the engineering, is unresolved. We work where that gap is decided. Our team has sat inside the financial institutions that approve and underwrite Africa's largest infrastructure, and we pair that institutional view with project-finance execution and commercial strategy. We understand how a port concession, an economic corridor, or a logistics platform is de-risked, and appraised, because we have been on the side of the table that decides.
How we work
We start from the financing decision and work backwards. Before recommending a playbook, we test how an asset will read to the capital that has to fund it, the concessional tranche, the commercial lenders, the equity, the guarantee, and we build the project-finance strategy around closing that gap. We prepare deal documentation to investment-committee and lender standard and stay engaged through diligence and commitment to implementation readiness. Our work is grounded in transactions we have actually executed and the institutions whose proven processes we know from the inside.
- Project finance advisory
- Bankability preparation and readiness
- Deal origination support
- Commercial and financial due diligence
- Economic corridor and infrastructure strategy
- Public-private partnerships
Assets that move an economy
Infrastructure earns its keep as a corridor, not a single asset. We help finance the roads, ports, and connections that link producers to markets, and structure them so revenues support the debt.
What is shaping Infrastructure
Africa's infrastructure financing gap runs to roughly $170 billion a year, with transport and logistics a structural shortfall
The African Development Bank estimates the continent needs $360 to $400 billion annually for infrastructure against $190 to $230 billion financed, leaving a gap of up to $170 billion, of which around $32 billion a year is the transport and logistics requirement to support AfCFTA trade.
For sponsors and investors, the binding constraint is rarely the asset, it is structuring capital that closes the funding gap; well-prepared, bankable transactions and credible blended structures are what move projects from pipeline to close.
AfCFTA is reorganising Africa's trade around corridors, ports, and intermodal connectivity
Intra-African trade reached $208 billion in 2024, up 7.7 percent year on year, yet still only 15 to 18 percent of total African trade versus 59 percent in Asia and 68 percent in Europe, driving heavy investment in deep-water ports, dry ports, and corridor connectivity to close that gap.
Investors face a wave of port, corridor, and logistics opportunities whose returns depend on intermodal integration and trade flow, making rigorous commercial diligence and corridor-level pipeline strategy decisive in selecting assets that will actually capture the AfCFTA trade dividend.
Private capital mobilisation is now the explicit policy of the multilaterals financing African infrastructure
The 2025 Luanda Infrastructure Financing Summit centred on Capital, Corridors, Trade, and IFC's 2030 strategy launched in fiscal 2025 scales its mandate to mobilise private capital, with the AfDB, AfCFTA Secretariat, and Africa50 forming a tripartite alliance to crowd private finance into corridor infrastructure.
Sponsors who can present assets in the structure DFIs need to crowd in private capital, with the guarantees, blended tranches, and risk allocation already worked through, will access concessional and catalytic finance ahead of those who cannot.
Our infrastructure work spans both the asset and the fund side of the capital stack. At a pan-African logistics platform, we led the project preparation work for $200 million port infrastructure. We were also a key member of an Africa-focused infrastructure group, contributing to more than $2 billion in financing across power, transport, logistics, and telecoms. Together these give us a working view from both sides of an infrastructure transaction, the sponsor raising capital for a single strategic asset and the financial institutions deploying debt across a continental portfolio.
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