Kowostone undertakes major infrastructure project support and assignments from inception to feasibility study to procurement phases including bidding process, evaluations facilitation, negotiations and securing of all end-stage key approvals through to development, delivery and financial close. Our services also include the handling of project management and logistics coordination related to the infrastructure contracts, to maintenance of operations. We raise project finance on behalf of our clients; undertake risk management and project risk assessment and capital structuring and advisory.

As part of our portfolio of services our technical team has the capabilities and expertise to a) develop bankable project proposals; b) evaluate proposals and projects; c) undertake due diligence; d) identify and evaluate investment opportunities; e) identify and match joint-venture partners and funders; f) raise capital through traditional channels g) host investment conferences, roadshows and workshops to raise project and infrastructure finance; h) undertake regional and international market promotion and development on behalf of client organisations.

Our services are as follows:

Transaction Advisory

In order to meet the demands of the dynamic and sophisticated commercial and industrial markets, we are in a position to offer a number of transaction advisory services and solutions for public-private partnerships (PPP) and community PPPs.

Investment Promotion

We organize and host local, regional and international conferences, workshops, indabas and investment expos to attract investors for targeted projects. We also travel extensively within targeted regions soliciting for investors and investments. We only promote investment projects and programs that are sensitive to the environment.

Project Finance

We also raise capital and infrastructure finance for private-public partnerships in the following sectors:

• Energy projects (electricity power stations for retrofits, up-rate etc, thermal power stations,hydropower stations)
• Road projects (motorways, multi-laning, widening, etc)
• Airports
• Renewable Fuel projects
• Telecoms (fixed network rollout, GSM rollout, infrastructure re-financing, etc)

Project Management

Guided by international guiding principles such as PMBoK and PRINCE2, we offer the following:

• PMO Establishment
• Project and Portfolio Management
• Quality Assessments and Project Risk Evaluations
• Project Logistics and Administration
• Project Monitoring and Evaluation
• Change Management
• Contract Management
• Corporate Governance
• Supply Chain Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Outreach and Education
• Capacity Building and Training
• Close-out Reports

Event Management

Kowostone organizes and hosts international and regional capital-raising road-shows to bring opportunities to potential investors. We also arrange strategic business-to-business investment conferences, workshops and indabas.