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$55 Million STILAS Loan Closing for South American Developer

December, 2008 – Amsterdam, Netherlands

The licensed financial services institution STILAS International Law Services, P.A.
organized, negotiated, structured and closed an international finance project loan for
a Suriname, South America holding company with Netherlands Antilles holdings.
The company specializes in investment project development for real estate
complexes and biofuel energy production.

The multi-party loan contract, signed jointly by three coordinated syndicate lenders
with the one borrower, was signed in December 2008. Syndication of three private
investment funds from the United States, Netherlands and Curacao, was arranged
by STILAS as a result of meetings in the Netherlands and London throughout the
year between STILAS and representatives of the investment funds.

The funding package facilitated by STILAS, consisting of $55.0 Million USD, is for a
10 year term with a 3 year interest deferment, with interest at only 3.5% annual. This
closing demonstrates that STILAS’ track record of billions of dollars in successful
fundings, at interest rates substantially below market rates, is precisely because of
the strength of the collateral assets leveraged or structured by STILAS. Providing
more attractive collateral, or structuring superior collateral mechanisms, has
consistently improved terms of international project finance loans including greatly
reduced interest rates for STILAS clients.

STILAS structured the international project financing package as an asset-based


loan against pre-acquisition land value, additionally backed by temporary equity in
the holding company operating the project.

The successful closing used new propriety legal strategies of STILAS for short-term
asset based loan closings. The proprietary STILAS strategies consist of new
variations of established financial products that were developed by a team of lawyers
and compliance officers led by Matthew Greene, a prominent economic security
expert, in cooperation with a Swiss mortgage lending institution.

These innovative collateral loan structures, applying traditional Swiss investment


banking strategies in new ways to facilitate and accelerate acquisition loans, were
first launched by STILAS in 2007. They resulted in successful “test transactions” of
6 loans totaling $7.5 Million USD in July 2007, and a batch of 12 loans totaling $90.0
Million USD closed in October 2007. The 2008 closing for $55.0 Million USD
demonstrates that STILAS has the capability to independently apply these
alternative methods for qualified clients “at will”, provided that the borrower has
cooperative sellers of real estate assets, and that lenders are interested in the
borrower’s project.
(Case results depend on many factors unique to each case, including facts of a case
and decisions of independent third parties. No firm can guarantee a positive result in
any particular case.)

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