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GP Capital III The proposal is to make an investment of up to $15 million in GP Capital Partners III (GPCP III or the Fund).   The Fund has a target size of $200 million and will make control-oriented equity and equity related investments in companies either located in or which have significant business activities in Brazil.  The Fund will be structured as a 10-year Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership with a commitment period of five years.
Cabo Telecom II table, .k-table{ border-collapse:collapse; width:100%; table-layout:fixed; margin-bottom: 15px;} .k-table, .k-table td, table, table td {outline: 0;border: 1px solid #000; } .k-table td, table td { padding: 5px; }    Triple Play Participações S.A. ("Company" or "Cabo") is a holding company that currently owns two leading independent triple play (cable TV, telephony and broadband) service providers in the northeast Brazil cities of Natal and Fortaleza: Cabo Serviços de Telecomunicações Ltda. and Videomar Rede Nordeste S.A., respectively.   The Company is seeking IFC financing of up to BRL $120 million. The IFC financing will support Cabo to fund the service expansion investment plans to accelerate the growth of its footprint (the "Project"). 1.	Increase coverage: Promote broadband coverage penetration in frontier regions of the country (Northeast and North), thereby supporting regional economic development, expanding access to information, which in turn will transform the way private and public sectors operate and how services are delivered in the region. 
2.	Increase penetration of broadband services is expected to drive economic growth: Current fixed broadband penetration in the Northeastern region of Brazil is substantially below the rest of the country. Greater access to broadband is expected to contribute to economic growth by helping to bridge the supply gap, improving labor productivity and generating economic efficiencies.
3.	Promote innovation: Broadband spurs innovation, promoting new business models across several sectors including education, health, e-commerce, e-Government, etc.
4.	Enhance competition: Cabo - with a fully digital triple play offering - will promote convergence, reduce prices and improve service and availability of content. This will consequently help reduce the inter and intra-country digital divide by increasing competition and, particularly, promoting lower tariffs.
Boston Metal Boston Metal (BM or the Company, https://www.bostonmetal.com/) was created in 2012 with technologies licensed from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Company patented the Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE), a technology that can be used to reduce the carbon footprint of steel production and to produce high-value metals, such as tin, tantalum and niobium. The MOE technology, is an electro-chemical process, which uses direct electric current and an anode to separate chemical compounds into their constituent parts, eliminating the need for coal in steel production. MOE can make use of low- and mid-grade iron ore fines and iron slag that are unsuitable for low-emission steel making with incumbent technologies. MOE can also be used to recover high value metals from mine slags.     Boston Metal research and development (R&D) facilities are located in an industrial neighborhood in Massachusetts, United States (US) where MOE modular cells of different sizes are routinely redesigned and reconfigured as part of the Companys MOE scale up R&D process. In addition, Boston Metal is planning to ramp up production of steel at its new industrial demonstration plant, begin its construction in 2024 and start commercial operations in 2026. The location of the new plant has not been decided yet.      In 2022, Boston Metal established a subsidiary in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where MOE technology will be used to recover high-value metals from mining slag. The project will be built in the municipality Coronel Xavier Chaves. In addition to the plant, the project will include the civil works for the connection to the electrical grid which is located around 500 meters away from the project site.      The proposed IFC investment is an up to US$20M equity investment as part of a Series C round to further develop and commercialize the MOE platform and expand BMs operations in the United States and Brazil. The development impact of the project will be via: 
(i) Project Outcomes (Stakeholders): Access to a steel production decarbonization technology for manufacturers, potentially resulting in improved access to offtake markets, and in the medium term some GHG emissions avoidance.
(ii) Contribution to Market Creation (Sustainability): Creating a sustainable steel manufacturing sector in emerging markets, especially Brazil and India, via demonstration and replication channels.
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         The proposed investment (the Project) consists of an A loan of up to US$150 million to XP Investimentos S.A. (XP or the Company). The Project will support XPs client base expansion 
         . Consolidating the market: With the Project, IFC will be supporting the consolidation of a sector that changed the culture of investments and has strengthened capital markets in Brazil. 

Widening access to financial inclusion: The Project will be supporting the development and consolidation of a wide platform of distribution of assets, through which XP was able to connect investors looking for alternative ways of investing and companies and mid-sized banks looking for diversified funding sources.
Bompreco S.A. Supermercados do Nordeste Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Brazil-Bompreco S.A. Supermercados do Nordeste (BSN)      RegionLatin America and the Caribbean   Sector   Project No007683   Projected Board DateDecember 30, 1996   Company NameBompreco S.A. Supermercados do Nordeste   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	The Company is currently privately-held by the Paes Mendonça family.  The Company has signed a letter of intent with Royal Ahold, a publicly-held Dutch supermarket multinational, to sell 50% of its outstanding shares.  Control of the Company will remain with the Paes Mendonça family.    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	US$170 million, including an IFC A loan of US$30 million, inclusive of IFCs proposed quasi-equity investment of US$5 million.    Location of project and Description of site    	Four stores will be built in urban areas of Pernambuco state, and one in each the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, and Ceara.  Three stores will be located in shopping centers, while the others will be free-standing.         Description of Company and Purpose of Project    	BSN is the fourth largest supermarket chain in Brazil and the largest in the northeast of the country, where it operates 50 food retail stores and four distribution centers.  The project will construct new stores, which is expected to increase annual revenues by over US$300 million and increasing employment by creating 2,670 direct and 7,500 indirect jobs.  The project will also modernize existing operations, permitting the Company to provide internationally competitive services to consumers.    Environmental Category and Issues    	This is an environmental review category B project.  Environmental and occupational health and safety issues include liquid and solid waste disposal, use of non-ozone depleting refrigerants, fire safety measures, and employee training and general safety.  The sponsor has been requested to provide information addressing the issues listed above.     The  is  November 21, 1996 from the Public Information Center.       Date SPI sent to PIC     November 20, 1996      For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 676-0365  Environmental documents for this project are available at http://www.ifc.org and from the World Bank InfoShop (http://www.worldbank.org/html/pic/aboutinfo.html).
Mauricio Equity Ser Educacional S.A. (Mauricio or the Company) is a for-profit higher education company providing undergraduate, graduate and technical education to students in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. The Company has over 100,000 (including technical courses) students mainly from the middle and low income social classes. Maurício currently runs twenty-three campuses in eleven different states. Mauricio is undertaking a 2-year investment program (the Project), which comprises: (i) improvement of existing campuses; (ii) organic growth of current operations; (iii) distance learning (DL) implementation; and (iv) M&A combined with accelerated greenfield. i. Raise quality standards: Strengthening Mauricio''s position as a leading education company in Northeastern and Northern Brazil will potentially serve as a catalyst for other leading education institutions, especially in those regions, to continue to raise the quality of their services; ii. Improve access to services in frontier regions: Mauricio''s plans to expand its network, particularly in frontier regions, will enhance Brazil''s education infrastructure and improve access to quality, affordable education services for low- and middle-income students. Larger national providers are also expected to follow Mauricio''s regional strategy of expansion in underdeveloped regions, thus further enhancing access to higher education and greater opportunities for employment;  iii. Expand reach of community service activities: Mauricio''s expansion in number of enrolled students and into new states of Brazil will allow the Company to provide services to a larger population and a greater range of communities through students'' voluntary professional activities.  Services include legal advice, health care (e.g. dental, medical, and physiotherapy), among others; iv. Create jobs: Mauricio''s expansion plan will benefit the labor market in Brazil''s frontier regions by creating both direct and indirect employment opportunities for local communities in construction and operation of the campuses; and v. Rationalize the market: The expansion of the Company through growing market share and selective acquisitions may help to consolidate the still fragmented education sector, potentially leading to rationalization and quality improvement in the industry.
SABESP UCL II The proposed transaction consists of an A Loan for up to BRL1.0 billion to Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SABESP or the Company). SABESP is a water and sanitation service provider operating in the state of São Paulo and supplying approximately 28.0 million people with water and 24.7 million people with sewage collection. The A Loan will have a 10-year tenor. The proceeds of the loan will be used to finance investments in water and sanitation infrastructure in the state of São Paulo (the Project). Stakeholder
impact: IFC will support investments focused on sewage expansion and water
quality improvements in the state of São Paulo.    

  Market
impact: The use of performance-based contract as part of the Novo Rio Pinheiro
program demonstrates an innovative contractual model that can be used as
reference for other water and sanitation companies to increase efficiency in
meeting coverage targets, while boosting the sectors competitiveness.
Guilman-Amorim Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Brazil-Guilman-Amorim Hydroelectric Project            Region    Latin America        Sector       Project No007906   Projected Board DateMarch 25, 1997   Company NameUsina Hidroeletrica Guilman-Amorim S.A.   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	The Companys shareholders and Sponsors are Belgo-Mineira for 51% of the share capital and Samarco for 49%. Belgo-Mineiras core business activities are in the steel manufacturing sector while Samarco is a mining company    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	US$146 million, including a US$20 million IFC A loan, US$86 million IFC B loan and US$10 million IFC C loan (quasi-equity).    Location of project and Description of site    	Plant located on the Piracicaba river, in the Municipalities of Nova Era (the reservoir) and Antonio Dias (the Power House), Minas Gerais.    Description of Company and Purpose of Project    	This project involves a build, own and operate a run-of-the-river 140 MW hydroelectric plant on the Piracicaba river, in the State of Minas Gerais. The plant will supply energy to Belgo-Mineira Monlevade steel plant and to Samarcos Germano-Aalegria mine, through the State utility company, CEMIG.  The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy predicts an electricity shortage as early as 1997 in the Interconnected System of Southern Brazil. Given the limited resources of the Public Sector and in accordance to the World Bank recommendations, the Brazilian Government issued a new regulatory framework to allow the Private Sector to generate electricity. In this context, the Sponsors, who are both large electricity consumers, have decided to develop their own power generation capacity with the objective to reduce their cost of electricity and to increase the reliability of power supply. This is the first private project in the power sector to be implemented in Brazil     Environmental Category and Issues    	This is a category Special B project under IFCs environmental review procedures because a limited number of specific impacts may result which can be avoided or mitigated by adhering to generally recognized environmental performance standards, guidelines, or design criteria. Environmental issues associated with this project include: land use modification, erosion control and effects on aquatic resources and water users.  The environmental impacts of this project are expected to be less than significant, and in compliance with local environmental requirements and consistent with applicable World Bank environmental policies.    The  is  from the Public Information Center.       Date SPI sent to PIC     February 18, 1997      For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 676-0365  Environmental documents for this project are available at http://www.ifc.org and from the World Bank InfoShop (http://www.worldbank.org/html/pic/aboutinfo.html).
Andrade Project AG group has requested that IFC provide a financial package for Andrade Gutierrez S.A., the central holding of the group, with the intent of strengthening the group''s financial structure by lengthening the maturity of its financing.  Part of the loan proceeds will be applied to new investments of the group, most likely to occur in Brazil''s infrastructure sector, in which case it would do so through AG Concessoes.      The World Bank Group''s primary objective in assisting Brazil, is the achievement of sustainable, private-sector led, broadly shared growth.  Priorities are: creation of new, formal employment opportunities in internationally competitive private firms, broadened financial access for the commercial system, and delivery of improvements in areas of basic needs and/or visible impact on standards of living: housing, water, health, education, urban transport.  Specifically, IFC''s strategy, consistent with this objective, is: backing companies that will create growth,  supporting activities which demonstrate tangible benefits of liberalization (such as water, health, education, and urban and inter-modal transport), investing in financial and physical infrastructure to improve the prospects for sustained growth; and broad support for business leading to development in the Northeast.      IFC finds supporting AG''s operations consistent with its strategy for the following reasons.  AG group owns an array of businesses that contribute to the objectives stated above.  First, AG Telecom has brought much needed improvements to the telephone system in the Northeast of Brazil. Second, it is AG Concessoes'' strategy to participate in privatizations of public infrastructure and it is likely to benefit from part of this financing to increase its business. Third, CAG participates significantly in important large infrastructure projects that benefit Brazil''s economic growth.  CAG seeks to be an efficient company and financial efficiency is an important element that translates into lower cost of construction and thus benefits the economy of Brazil. Lastly, AG group is rapidly  modernizing, bringing modern management concepts and creating jobs for skilled professionals including in information technology. This gives young Brazilians a chance to apply their skills at one of Brazil''s most influential firms.       Currently companies in Brazil have limited access to capital markets as a result of global economic and political conditions.  The upcoming elections are compounded by this problem and Brazil is affected, to some degree, by the Argentine crisis.  This means that even for large companies financing is gradually becoming more difficult to access and tenors, historically short, may decrease even further in the near future.  In addition, it is AG''s intention to maintain its ability to invest over the next 24 months and this requires the group to have a stable financial structure.  This requires a tenor not currently available in the local market.  Finally, the group has shown interest in improving further its corporate governance and furtherance of sound environmental and practices.
Coelba Disco The proposed investment consists of an 8-year green + sustainability-linked loan of up to BRL 550 million to Companhia de Electricidade do Estado da Bahia (Neoenergia Coelba) to finance part of its 2023 capex program, namely network expansion and renewal (excluding transmission lines), substation upgrades and digitalization programs. Neoenergia Coelba is a power distribution company operating in the state of Bahia, Brazil, with over 6.2 million customers and more than 21.2 TWh of energy sold in 2021. It is a subsidiary of Neoenergia, a publicly traded integrated energy company in Brazil, which is majority-owned by Spanish group Iberdrola (53,5%). The IFC loan will benefit from a parent company guarantee by Neoenergia. The proceeds of this loan will finance part of Neoenergia Coelba's capital expenditures in 2023, including network expansion and renewal (excluding transmission lines), substation upgrades and digitalization. Project Outcomes: IFC's investment will contribute to increasing access to energy in the state of Bahia, which has the largest rural population in Brazil. Neoenergia Coelba expects to add to the grid an average of 140,000 customers per year for the next 5 years. In terms of quality of service, IFC's intervention is expected to result in an improvement in the frequency and duration of interruptions, increasing the reliability of the power supply. Market Creation: This "super green" instrument is an innovative market structure that combines green use-of-proceeds and sustainability-linked pricing features. It is Neoenergia Coelba's and Neoenergia's first sustainability-linked financing, as well as one of the first sustainability-linked products in the Brazilian infrastructure market and the Latin American energy sector.
ABC Frontier ABC Frontier (Project # 32730), consists of an A loan of up to US$30 million and a B Loan of up to US$50  million to Banco ABC Brasil (Banco ABC, ABC Brasil or the Bank). The Bank is a mid-sized bank in Brazil and an existing IFC client under the Global Trade Finance Program.     The above loan will support ABC Brasils lending operations to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in the frontier regions of Brasil, which encompasses the North, the Northeast and parts of the mid-western region. The Project will increase access to finance to SMEs in the frontier regions of Brazil, which are underserved by the domestic financial markets. It will also help ABC Brasil to expand its reach to maintain and increase its lending to SMEs in frontier regions. Finally, the Bank will be required to design and implement an ESMS to screen all SME sub-projects against the IFC Exclusion List and the Brazilian E&S laws and regulations.
GTFP VOTORANTIM The proposed investment consists of an unfunded trade finance facility under IFCs Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) of up to US$70 million with Banco Votorantim. The trade line will support short-term trade finance activities. The trade finance activities supported by the Project will be required to meet the requirements of the IFC's Exclusion List and other exclusions deemed necessary. The Project will not support any activities with significant E&S concerns such as: (a) involuntary resettlement; (b) risk of adverse impacts on Indigenous Peoples; (c) significant risks to or impacts on the environment, community health and safety, biodiversity, cultural heritage; or (d) significant occupational health and safety risks. It will also not support any activities related to upstream oil & gas production and activities related to coal such as coal mining, coal transportation, coal-fired power plants, or infrastructure services exclusively dedicated to support any of these activities. IFC will review the details of the underlying trade transactions to confirm that they do not include activities in the IFC Exclusion List and any other exclusions.
Uniao Quimica The proposed investment entails an up to US$65 million A loan in BRL equivalent to União Química Farmacêutica Nacional S.A. (UQ or the Company), a life science manufacturing company headquartered in Brazil. The proceeds will be used to (i) expand production capacity with a focus on antibiotics, corticoids, anti-inflammatories, anesthetics, and others serving the hospital segment which had a spike in demand due to COVID-19 and supply disruptions; (ii) upgrade two existing plants to produce vaccines (both for COVID-19 and other uses); and (iii) finance working capital needs (all investments together are defined as the Project).  With over 85 years of operations, the Company has grown into a diversified pharmaceutical manufacturer for human health (prescription drugs and OTC for retail and hospital clients), animal health and toll manufacturing. The most significant, expected project-level outcome is an increase in access to vaccines and much-needed medication in Brazil, including additional capacity for COVID-19 treatment medication. There is also expected to be an impact on market resilience through strengthening the supply chain to deliver medication and vaccines.