Independent advisers in energy & infrastructure finance · High-growth markets
Debt arranged. Risk structured. Power and storage projects taken to financial close.
Heliobridge Capital is an independent project finance advisory firm serving sponsors, developers and lenders of utility-scale power and storage in high-growth markets. We raise senior debt, structure credit enhancement and political risk cover, negotiate PPAs and offtake, package EPC procurement to lender standard — and, through our group's platform, distribute debt beyond the primary lender group.
Fees are success-based. We are paid when the money moves.
01Services
Five disciplines. One accountable adviser between ready-to-build and first drawdown.
Projects in high-growth markets rarely fail on engineering. They stall in the distance between “ready-to-build” and “bankable”. Our practice closes that distance — end to end, on aligned economics.
Debt Raising & Arranging
Senior debt from development finance institutions, multilaterals, commercial banks, infrastructure funds and private credit — typically US$100–250m per project at 10–15-year tenors. We run the full process: teaser, data room, lender Q&A, competitive term sheets, credit-committee support and conditions precedent through to drawdown.
Credit Enhancement & Political Risk Insurance
Political risk insurance, guarantees and sovereign support instruments structured to match lender requirements — placed across multilateral insurers and the Lloyd’s of London market. Read more ↓
PPA & Offtake Structuring
Utility and corporate power purchase agreements negotiated for financeability: tariff and indexation, deemed-energy protection, termination and buyout regimes, currency and convertibility protections. Where the natural offtaker is not creditworthy, we build the structure that is — aggregator offtake, sleeved and wheeled corporate PPAs, multi-offtaker portfolios.
EPC Procurement Packaging
Delivery contracted the way lenders expect it: fixed-price wraps, liquidated damages, performance guarantees and independent engineering, drawing on a proven European EPC partner network. Storage engineered into the project rather than bolted on — sizing, dispatch, tolling and augmentation plans that hold up over the full debt term.
Debt Distribution
Access to an established distribution capability operated within our group, through which investment products are placed with regulated distribution partners. Read more ↓
02The Entry Point
The Bankability Readiness Review.
A fixed-scope diagnostic that tells you — candidly — what stands between your project and a term sheet.
A structured audit of your data room, conducted the way a credit committee will conduct theirs.
Offtake, land, permits, grid, EPC, insurance and the financial model — each examined against lender and insurer standards, each gap graded by how much it moves the credit decision.
The graded gap list
Every bankability gap identified and ranked by credit impact — not a generic checklist, but a clause-by-clause reading of your documents.
The path-to-close memo
What must change, in what order, and who must sign it — the sequencing of amendments, support instruments and insurance strategy.
A candid verdict
If we cannot see a path to close, we say so. The review's candour is the point — and it is why lenders take our transactions seriously.
The review fee is creditable in full against success fees on a subsequent advisory mandate.
Request a Review03Risk & Capital
Credit enhancement is where high-growth-market deals are won.
A strong project with an uninsurable risk profile does not close. We treat the insurance and guarantee stack as a core workstream, structured in parallel with the debt — never an afterthought.
Political risk insurance & guarantees
Our principals have placed political risk cover through the Lloyd’s of London market and hold PRI terms from multilateral insurers on live mandates. We design the cover to the lender's requirement — expropriation, currency inconvertibility and transfer restriction, political violence, breach of contract — and run placement alongside the debt process so terms arrive together.
- Sovereign support instruments — drafted, negotiated and aligned with the insured risk allocation
- Offtaker credit enhancement — guarantees, liquidity facilities and security packages that make a signed PPA a financeable one
- Lender-grade risk papers — the honest analysis credit committees and underwriters actually ask for
Debt distribution
Beyond arranging, our group operates an established, regulated distribution platform through which investment products are structured, administered and placed with professional distribution partners and adviser networks.
For project sponsors, this means an adviser whose reach does not end at the primary lender group: where a transaction calls for distribution of debt or structured exposure to a wider investor base, the infrastructure — product administration, distributor relationships, reporting — already exists within the group and is conducted through its regulated entities.
- Operating platform — live product administration and distribution infrastructure, not a concept
- Regulated conduct — distribution activities undertaken by authorised entities within the group
- Case-by-case application — deployed where it serves the financing plan, discussed under NDA
04Sectors
Power and storage, in the configurations high-growth markets actually need.
The disciplines are constant — debt, risk, offtake, procurement. We apply them across the generation and storage asset classes now defining emerging-market power.
Utility-scale solar & solar + BESS
Our core practice: ground-mount PV with integrated battery storage, structured as independent power projects with utility, aggregator or corporate offtake.
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Standalone BESS
Grid-scale storage as an asset class in its own right: tolling and capacity structures, dispatch studies agreed with the grid operator, augmentation planned over the full debt term.
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Floating solar
First-of-kind nearshore and reservoir floating PV, including the offtake and technology diligence questions lenders raise on the asset class.
Indonesia SEZ
Wind–solar–storage hybrids
Co-located and hybrid configurations structured as single financeable projects: shared infrastructure, blended generation profiles and offtake shaped to the combined output.
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Mining & C&I captive power
Captive and behind-the-meter generation for mining and industrial loads — the demand anchoring much of Southern Africa's pipeline. Our Zambian mandates sit on the doorstep of the Copperbelt, and our partner network's references include mine-site and factory systems.
Hungary
05Approach
A lender's eye, applied early.
We look at a project the way the money will — then close the distance between the two.
Bankability Readiness Review
The two-week diagnostic above: data room audited against lender and insurer standards, gaps graded by credit impact.
Close the gaps
Amendment papers, sovereign support instruments, security packages, insurance strategy and a financial model rebuilt to bank case — the documents drafted, not merely recommended.
Capital formation
Targeted outreach to the right desks — development banks, multilaterals, commercial project finance, private credit and the political-risk markets — run in parallel to competitive term sheets.
Financial close & delivery
Conditions precedent managed to a timetable, direct agreements negotiated, drawdown structured against the EPC schedule. Success-based fees: we are paid when the money moves.
06Track Record
Live mandates, and two decades delivered by our partner network.
Track record is stated by size, country and role only. Client, lender and counterparty names are available under NDA.
Live mandates
| 200 MW +180 MWh | Zambia | Solar + BESS IPP, ready-to-build — US$150m senior debt raise, sovereign support and PRI structuring |
| 200 MW +180 MWh | Zambia | Twin solar + BESS IPP — US$180m senior debt raise, aggregator and corporate offtake structuring |
| 100 MW floating | Indonesia | Nearshore floating solar for an industrial special economic zone — first phase of a 1.2 GW power demand pipeline |
Partner network — delivered & developed
| 140 MW | Romania | Development, design and technical supervision |
| 45 MW | Slovakia | Development, design and implementation |
| 40 MW | Hungary | Utility-scale PV portfolio, developed and built |
| 35 MW +BESS | Hungary | Industrial PV with battery storage for factory self-consumption |
| 30 MW | India | Feasibility, consulting and development |
| 28 MW | Bulgaria | Development, design and implementation |
| 27 MW | Hungary | Automotive-manufacturer rooftop portfolio, designed and delivered |
| 20 MW | Czech Republic | Development, design and implementation |
| 10 MW | Indonesia | Feasibility, consulting and development |
| 2 MW +storage | Ghana | University campus solar with energy storage |
| Mine-site PV | Namibia | System design for open-pit mining operations |
| National study | Sudan | Government-commissioned feasibility: PV, solar irrigation and storage |
Partner-network references reflect projects developed, designed, built or supervised by the principals of our EPC and development partners, and are attributed as such — never as Heliobridge's own balance-sheet projects.
07Clients & Counterparties
Three sides of the same table.
Developers & EPCs
You have proven the model at home; the pipeline is abroad, at ten times the ticket. We bring the project finance discipline, lender access and in-country structuring that turn engineering credibility into closed transactions.
Sponsors & landowners
You hold the site, the licence or the PPA. We assemble the rest — capital, EPC, offtake and credit support — and carry the project through to financial close on success-based terms.
Lenders & insurers
We bring you diligence-ready transactions: complete data rooms, bank-case models, honest risk papers and sponsors we have already put through the questions your credit committee will ask.
“Projects do not fail on sunshine. They fail on structure — and structure is our trade.”
08Contact
Bring us the project everyone likes but no one will fund.
A Bankability Readiness Review takes two weeks and tells you exactly what stands between your project and a term sheet. If we cannot see a path to close, we will say so.
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