GSO Partners advises corporations, financial institutions and public issuers across Central and West Africa on structuring, arranging and renegotiating their financing: bonds, securitization, project finance, restructuring.
Fondée à Libreville, Gabon — CEMAC & UEMOA
Before issuing, borrowing or renegotiating, we measure what your cash flows can truly sustain, at what cost, and under what structure lenders and investors will follow you.
We do not sell a product. We build the structure your cash flows can support and the market will accept, then coordinate its execution with banks, licensed brokers and regulators.
Issuer advisory on bond issuances and public offerings: calibration, documentation, rating, syndicate, coordination with COSUMAF / AMF-UMOA.
Turning receivables, assets or contractual cash flows into financing: securitization vehicles, sale-and-leaseback, fleet and equipment finance.
Financing infrastructure and supporting the moments when the balance sheet structure must change.
The cost of debt is not just the rate. It depends on the quality of the file, the competition created among lenders, the security structure and the clauses governing the life of the credit.
Issuer preparation, prospectus, rating, syndicate formation, listing calendar.
Portfolio selection, tranching, credit enhancement, vehicle, approval.
Risk allocation, bankable model, mobilization of DFIs, export credit and commercial lenders.
Diagnostic, cash-flow plan, negotiation with creditors, new documentation.
"Our method"
Objectives, timeline, constraints and value assumptions.
Diagnostic, financial model, documentation and data room.
Tranches, security, covenants, governance and deal architecture.
Confidential competitive process among lenders, investors or guarantors; coordination with the placement broker.
Term sheet, due diligence coordination, contracts and execution security.
Anonymized illustrations of mandates conducted or in progress.
Founder
Founder and Managing Partner, GSO Partners
MBA in Finance (IFG). Head of Investments at Bamboo Securities, a COSUMAF-licensed management and brokerage firm. Based in Libreville, he operates between Gabon and France on bond financings, securitization and advisory to public and private issuers across the sub-region.
LinkedInIssuance, securitization, infrastructure project, refinancing or restructuring: let's discuss the realistic structure and what it takes to execute it.