Services for Institutions

Branly Point serves insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, foundations – real money investors – who are looking for long-dated assets to match their long-dated liabilities. 

   

We help institutions navigate infrastructure opportunities in Frontier Markets – especially in sub-Saharan Africa.  We work with institutions to develop and execute FM infrastructure investment strategies.

    

We can supplement already stretched internal resources and accelerate deal identification, due diligence, risk mitigation and financial close. 

   

Our goal is to mitigate the institutional pain points around power, energy and infrastructure investing.

Investment teams face  challenging imperatives:

Do More With Less

If your institution is like most, you have objectives that may not seem internally consistent:

How we can help . . . 

We can stretch limited internal resources, and accelerate deal identification, due diligence, risk mitigation and financial close.

  • Find new sectors for investment
  • Find attractive risk-adjusted returns in a low interest rate environment
  • Put more money to work
  • Take more risk
  • Keep losses low
  • Manage portfolio more closely than ever before
  • Do all of the above with fewer people than in the past

We can provide advice and assistance on transaction structure, financial analysis, terms & conditions, due diligence, and deal documentation.

Get Leadership On Board

It’s not enough for investment officers to get comfortable.

Investment committees and senior management have to be on board too. That’s a process. Overcoming internal biases against a sector, a technology or a region is hard work and takes time.

How we can help . . . 

We can move the discussion from perceived risks to real risks.

We can help prepare tools for your internal use.  These include:  Writing white papers — Convening teach-ins — Preparing internal presentations.   We can address:  Specific sectors, Specific regions, Evaluation criteria, and Structuring and risk mitigation.   We will tailor products to meet your specific needs.

Know Whom To Trust

No one knows everything.

Even if you enjoy the luxury of dedicated in-house specialists in project finance, infrastructure, oil & gas, power generation, emerging markets, etc., sound underwriting requires a bevy of 3rd party advisors:  Independent Engineers,  Market Consultants,  External Counsel,  Insurance Consultants,  Resource (wind, solar, geothermal, hydrology) Consultants.  Sorry, it’s unavoidable.

How we can help . . . 

We can vet and manage 3rd party service providers.

We’re an experienced consumer and commissioner of expert reports.  We can help you set scopes-of-work, and make sense of the results.

Make The Right Call

Deals, structures,  sectors, and geographies are complex.

These transactions and geographies are complicated and require lots of analysis.  On top of basic operating risks, potential investors have to contend with deals (mis-)structured for perfection,  mismatched contracts,  sloppy termination provisions,  bad risk allocation,  FX exposure, repatriation and nationalization risks, problematic assignment provisions and poorly conceived contractual structures.

How we can help . . .

We know deal analysis top-to-bottom.

We can grind through the underlying contracts, the market studies, engineering reports, commodity price forecasts, traffic and usage forecasts, wind and solar resource studies, hydrology reports, technology assessments, and marry them to a transaction’s documentation.

You have to make the decisions.  We make sure you are fully informed.

Our sector expertise spans Power, Energy and Infrastructure

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