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Six capabilities across Sterling's investment and advisory platforms. Most transactions and mandates draw on several.
Six capabilities across Sterling’s investment and advisory platforms. Most transactions and mandates draw on several. Select one to read further.
Direct and SPV investments in AI and frontier-technology companies from pre-seed through Series B, alongside selected venture-fund and fund-of-funds positions and the sponsorship of a dedicated Africa AI venture fund.
Diligence focuses on commercial demand, revenue quality, defensible advantages, unit economics and the path from an initial use case to repeatable growth. Technical novelty may open the door; evidence of real demand determines whether an opportunity can be underwritten.
Selective, senior-led advisory mandates helping institutions move from AI ambition and isolated pilots toward commercially and operationally sustainable deployment.
Engagements begin with the decision, capability or operating problem the institution must address — not with a technology it has already been sold. The work may encompass investment cases, governance, operating models, partner selection, implementation economics and pathways to scale.
Financial structuring, lender engagement, negotiation and closing for greenfield and brownfield projects, including limited-recourse, multi-tranche and blended-finance structures.
Sector experience encompasses power and renewable energy, telecommunications, airports and aviation, roads and bridges, mining, water and sanitation, hospitality, healthcare and higher education.
Buy-side and sell-side advisory, valuation, recapitalization and restructuring, together with strategic partnerships, market entry and commercial-expansion mandates.
Sterling focuses on transactions where value depends not only on identifying a counterparty, but also on designing the structure, aligning interests and creating a credible path to execution.
Debt and equity capital raising, credit enhancement, guarantee structures and blended-finance arrangements involving development finance institutions, commercial lenders and private investors.
The work frequently begins with making a transaction bankable: sequencing concessional, commercial, equity and guarantee capital so that each risk is allocated to the party best able to assume it.
PPP and concession structuring for governments, sponsors and investors, from preliminary bankability assessment through procurement, negotiation and financial close.
Capabilities include commercial and financial structuring, risk allocation, tariff and availability-payment design, financing strategy and the negotiation of appropriate government support.
Most mandates begin with a transaction nobody has yet made bankable.
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