Project Financing and Fund-raising Ability 

We provide the project financing to help our best-in-breed partners / project owners / employers / project holders scale up their ambition at every stage of our government-to-government projects.

Tailor-made solutions for financial planning & investing

Project financing is a loan structure on the project’s cash flow for repayment. The project’s assets, rights, and interests would be held as secondary collateral.

Heritage group combines its global best practices with deep China knowledge to offer with the integrated, market-based and capital market solutions for the project financing. It applies to our governmental projects that EPC Chinese partners work together with the project owners / employers / holders.

Heritage Funds LPF has forged privileged relationships with several pools of significant capital from China and within Asia. Together with China investors, our capital partnerships are established based on the principles of trust and mutual respect.

We understand that our project partners come from various backgrounds and with different needs. As per request by our project partners, it can be differentiated in their project size, its financial instrument duration, payment structure with Chinese financial institutions.

Ultimately, we always maintain working on our project owners / employers / holders’ focused vision. Heritage Funds LPF provides a best-in-class solution with a turnkey total solution for them.

Our reputation and the trust built in all our relationships, it is our most valuable assets, and it is the cornerstone of success with Heritage group.

How we work with our Chinese partners

Working in collaboration with its Chinese partners, Heritage group brings and offers a unified leadership and comprehensive range of financing services catering to the unique conditions of the government-to-government projects.

By partnering with different types of our Chinese strategic partners, we have established an unparalleled network of relationships with China capital.

Heritage Funds LPF provides not only a diversified range of project financing services and solutions, but also making the direct investments into our government-to-government projects together with Chinese investors.

BEST MATCH AND FIT

Heritage group strives to meet the financing needs in different phases of completion of their projects whilst having local teams provides us with in-depth knowledge of local market features. It enables Heritage group to meet the project owners / employers / holders’ specific requirements with unique conditions to deliver.

We understand that every government-to-government project brings its own unique set of characteristics, and therefore we believe that our solutions should likewise be unique.

Given the stringent requirements and exceptional demands of our Chinese partners, each solution is highly customized and no two projects are the same.

From experienced by Heritage group, we know that when all the pieces of the value chain for our Chinese strategic partners on government-to-government projects are in place, the project’s risks are mitigated and financing can be secured in various ways.

Chinese and International fund of fund conversion into the project investments

Also, by co-operating with international funds and Chinese funds, Heritage Funds LPF as the general partner (GP) and one of the Limited Partners (LP), has established a pool of PE funds after obtaining funds from its Limited Partners (LP) of China and international PE funds.

It legally leads to be holding a pool of fund of funds deposited in international banks. The objective is to be mandated for cooperation with the international funds and Chinese funds to invest into its projects.

It is an important achievement for Heritage group with Heritage Funds LPF to its rapidly expanding further portfolio of government-to-government projects. It is an endorsement of our capacity and capability to deliver an “A-Z” integral turnkey solution for the project owners / employers / holders, Chinese state-owned EPC companies and our investors.

Funding and financing options

By working with Chinese governmental authorities, Chinese policy banks, Sinosure, Chinese state-owned companies, Heritage group can use a flexible approach toward funding co-operative programs i.e., such as a strong experience in structuring funding via different options.

It has been characterised by the jointly capital commitment by Heritage Funds LPF and its Chinese partners. That leads to its implementation with strong project execution capability by applying the full following spectrum of project financing instruments:

  • RMB project financing
  • Fund of funds conversion into the project investments
  • By using the credit line under the China financing platform and project & trade finance
  • Export buyer’s / seller’s credit (remark: to be explained in details in the next page)
  • Concessional loan and preferential export buyer’s credit
  • Financial leasing
  • Equity/debt funding
  • Bond raise in the financial market, etc.
  • EPC+F (finance) with the governmental guarantee
  • Panda bond, public bonds & sovereign bonds
  • Open-ended fund
  • International PE with the jointly capital commitment by Heritage Funds LPF

Heritage group works in concert with the request to pay RMB to Chinese state-owned companies for our government-to-government projects. It is a convenient exercise during the high velocity period of RMB internationalization.

Via our core segment and strength with China capital, Heritage group has accessed and leveraged its vast, solid, and excellent relationship with the Chinese state-owned company to develop a strategy as strategic equity investment partners (using the “EPC+F” model).

This involves the project equity with significant capital commitment is placed by Heritage Funds LPF whilst the project debt for the project owners / employers / holders, is granted by Chinese banks such as China Development Bank, Exim Bank and ICBC.

Such project debt typically represents 85% of the project construction costs in additional to the combination remaining 15% bridging finance offered by Heritage Funds LPF. This model has enabled Chinese state-owned companies to develop its project implementation outside of China.

SUMMARY

In line with China reviving the Silk Road route and its “The Belt and Road Initiative” overseas investment drive, Heritage group always makes full efforts and participates with Chinese state-owned corporations into our government-to-government projects.

Such experience puts Heritage group with Heritage Funds LPF to bridge the co-operation, create and connect unique and unprecedented opportunities to value between local project owners / employers / holders and Chinese state-owned companies.