WHI, LLC

 

 

PRIVATE INVESTMENT

 

WHI, LLC has one of the most sophisticated private investment fund practices in the industry. The success of our practice is based on three tenets:

• Our purpose is to help clients to make intelligent investments on intelligent terms. To this end we are constructive in all our dealings with others.

• We are committed to excellence in service by being responsive to client needs and understanding the time sensitive nature of opportunities.

• We work constantly to develop our practice through innovation to provide our clients with access to leading-edge solutions and strategies.

 

Building on these values, we bring an unsurpassed depth of experience and a distinctive approach to provide astute advice and assessments of risk, practical solutions, and first-class service for our clients.

 

FUND FORMATION

 

We have organized the full range of private investment funds, from leveraged buyout funds, to venture capital funds, to funds of funds, to CDO (collateralized debt obligation) funds, to hedge funds, to mezzanine funds.
We also have organized specialized funds in the natural resources and energy, technology, and health fields. Structuring these funds requires not only an intimate familiarity with the relevant securities and investment company rules, but also a significant amount of tax, ERISA, and industry knowledge. We also have substantial experience in structuring and organizing offshore funds and in solving complex problems involved in structuring the internal management of sponsors.

Our expertise is continually reinforced by our comprehensive database of current market terms assembled through review of private equity funds on behalf of institutional investors. We are able to quickly identify significant issues and formulate practical solutions given our extensive expertise in dealing with the structuring of the internal management of fund sponsors.

PROJECT FINANCING

 

Funding for infrastructure projects is a complex area, and there are specific challenges involved in creating the appropriate finance structures to manage risks effectively.

• Project finance requires multidisciplinary teams. Economists, engineers, accountants and finance specialist all need to work together to ensure that a project achieves its funding objectives.

• The long-term nature of project funding dictates specialist knowledge of the many different institutions, both local and international that offer financing in this sector.

 

HOW WHI, LLC CAN HELP

• WHI, LLC work for both public and private sector, but always working toward achieving a successful project. We have shown real problem-solving abilities, designing finance mechanisms for hundreds of successful infrastructure projects across North America, Europe and Asia.

• We help the public sector develop the right approach to procurement.

• We help private sector partners to get the best out of the process.

• We cover sectors including health care, education, transport, regeneration and housing, technology, leisure, defence, energy and utilities, waste and renewable, housing, criminal justice and emergency services.

 

 

International investment brings growth and sustainable development when the right policies are pursued. International investment includes foreign direct investment, other capital movements and the operations of multinational enterprises.

WHI, LLC provides a forum for international cooperation, policy analysis and advice to clients on how best to enhance the positive contribution of investment worldwide.

Current priorities include: increasing the capacity of developing countries to attract more and better investment; promoting corporate responsibility through WHI, LLC Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; enhancing the understanding of emerging legal and policy issues relating to international investment protection provisions and arbitration procedures and promoting transparent and non-discriminatory treatment of investment through observance of WHI, LLC instruments.

Reliable and up-to-date statistics are essential for a meaningful interpretation of investment trends for the purpose of decision and evaluation. WHI, LLC gathers and analyses detailed statistics on international direct investment and other resource flows to developing countries and countries in transition and related matters.