We are based in Washington DC dedicated to the provision of technical advisory services for the financial structuring of investments in social and public-private infrastructure projects in Latin America through the support of multilateral development banks, private equity funds, insurance companies and specialized firms in the United States and Europe. MDG works together with developers, investors and corporations in the structuring of short, medium and long-term debt, equity or sub-equity capital and the placement of credit, political and foreign exchange risk guarantees. MDG has successfully closed financial transactions for its clients with the US Development Finance Corporation (“DFC” formerly “OPIC”), the Inter-American Investment Corporation (“IIC” now “BID Invest”) for projects located in Mexico, Central America, Panama, Peru and Ecuador. MDG maintains representative offices in Mexico City, Guatemala City, Panama City, Lima, Santiago and Montevideo.
With fixed rate senior debt loans and loan guaranties up to $1 billion with tenor up to 25 years to cover up to 60 percent of total project costs for new ventures, and up to 75 percent for expansions, including project development and up-front financing costs, capital expenditure requirements and working capital.
As investment opportunities to participate with project financing subordinated to the senior debt provided by multilateral lenders.
To protect the value of your overseas investment and mitigate long term political risk. In addition to the standard insurance coverage for inconvertibility events, expropriation and or political violence, the Breach of Contract coverage protects foreign investors against losses arising from the host government’s breach or repudiation of a contractual or concessionary agreement with the investor. The coverage insures terms under government power purchase agreements, natural resource concessions, licenses, and sale contracts.
Options with swaps and forward contracts with competitive rates provided by specialized multilateral firms focusing on developmental impacts generated by foreign direct investments.
MDG works through a Fintech trade finance digital platform built to address the operational risks associated with small and medium size exporters. The digital platform enables exporters with immediate access to working capital by factoring their trade account receivables and can reduce the length of the traditional loan origination process from over two months to one week and provide funding to approved exporters within 24 hours.
MDG works with institutional and impact investors, multilateral and bilateral development banks, commercial and nonprofit organizations to structure complex and sophisticated transactions using an array of financial instruments including concessional debt and equity capital, credit and political risk guarantees, technical assistance funds and design stage grants focusing to address a variety of developmental needs in low income countries including low levels of access to safe drinking water, internet, sanitation and hygiene, energy, high levels of pollution, marine conservation and lack of physical infrastructure.
Bien Para Bien (“BpB”) is a Mexican lending Fintech and Non-banking financial institution that offers an attractive alternative solution to traditional credit products offered by banks through medium-term liquidity loans secured by real estate properties, for both SMEs and individuals. Founded in 2014 by Victor Borras, one of the most experienced public and private bankers in Mexico and a key player in the transformation of the Mexican banking industry, BpB sets itself apart from its competitors in the implementation of cutting-edge technological structures to enhance loan origination and portfolio management. MDG served as financial arranger for structuring a Credit Facility through the DFC formerly OPIC.
The facility consisted of the provision of political risk insurance coverage for a syndicated loan by leading Guatemalan and Panamanian banks to finance the construction and commissioning of a natural gas power generation plant located in Mexico.
URBI Desarrollos Urbanos SAB de CV designs, develops, constructs, and markets residential housing, specializing in the low-income market. The company has 39 years of history, reaching a national operation in 28 cities and building more than 432,000 homes. URBI became a public company in the Mexican Stock Market in 2004 and is listed under code URBI.MX. Urbi is now one of the few highly specialized companies that exclusively develops low-income housing projects along the US Mexican border targeting workers from the US maquila industry operations that are eligible for INFONAVIT mortgage financing.
Destino Desarrollos, previously known as “Multivistas Group”, is an American owned company with wide experience in the development of housing projects for middle-income families in Guatemala. In 2016, MDG structured for the company an OPIC Credit Facility for the development of middle-income projects in the secondary cities of Escuintla, Xela and Chimaltenango. MDG is currently structuring a second Credit Facility through the Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) to finance the expansion of new middle-income projects located in Cobán, Fraijanes and Xela in Guatemala.
Financia Credit is a Finance-Technology company based in Panama that operates regionally in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica. Financia Credit focuses in providing technology web-based platforms to assist SMEs effectively managing their costs and payment operations. MDG serves as the financial arranger for the structuring of a Credit Facility with the Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”) to fund the expansion of Financia Credit’s portfolio of fintech products in the region.
La Curacao is a well know retailer with 92 stores locations through the country that targets the low-income segment of the population in Peru. MDG served as financial arranger for structuring a loan through the Inter American Investment Corporation (“IIC” now “BIDINVEST”) to fund the expansion of 25 new stores in provincial cities in Peru.
MDG served as financial arranger for structuring a loan through the Inter American Investment Corporation (“IIC” now “BIDINVEST”) to fund the installation of necessary infrastructure and devises to recover, transport, and generate electricity on-site using the capture of natural associated gas at Petroamazonas EP Block 15 Oil field in Ecuador.
The project involves the provision of financing to small farmers and coffee growers for the incorporation of Big Mike bananas in their productive activities; technical assistance for a land titling program for small farmers and coffee growers, a vehicle for industrial, logistics and community infrastructure and an Export Program for Japan and Korea under Denomination of Origin – Verapaz, Guatemala
Main Office: Washington DC, United States
Mexico City, Mexico
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Panama City, Panama
Lima, Peru
Santiago, Chile
Montevideo, Uruguay
Bogotá, Colombia
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