CHARTER HCP ANNOUNCE DEPLOYMENT TIE UP WITH OLD MUTUAL DIVISION

Charter HCP Limited, the London based regulated boutique investment advisory and funding deployment brokerage have today announced a deployment tie-up with S.A Guarantee Limited, the Underwriting Managing Agency of Mutual & Federal Risk Financing Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Old Mutual, the major South African Insurance group (LSE: OMU.L) who specialise in Capital Protection Guarantees for predominantly Africa Centric infrastructure projects. The agreement covers an agency agreement for insurance to be offered by S.A Guarantee as well as Charter HCP acting as a deployment agent for and on behalf of SAG.

For SAG, the tie up offers access to CHCPs significant deployment capacity in the region, whilst for CHCP the collaboration offers unprecedented levels of capital protection for its infrastructure transactions in Africa which has become a major focus for the company in recent years.

Nathan January, Chief Investment Officer of SAG said, ‘This agreement with Charter HCP offers us access to Charter’s expertise in structuring transactions and Due Diligence in the region, thereby enabling us to improve our risk profile for our own investors, whilst also accessing their significant client base Africa wide. At a time when we now have a clear mandate to expand our underwriting with an Africa focus, this can only be good for us’.

Adam Michaelson, Director of Private Equity and head of the Africa desk at CHCP said, ‘The ability to be able to underwrite what might be seen by some as transactions where risk is hard to quantify, by an AA rated financial institution is a real step forward in the delivery of project finance to Africa. As such, we regard it as a major addition to our ability to be able to fund such projects and to that end we are delighted to be working with SAG for this purpose’.