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BTG TIMO Debt The Latin American reforestation strategy (the Strategy) was established in 2021 by the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) to focus on greenfield climate-positive forestry. The geographic focus of the Strategy is Latin America, mainly Brazil and Uruguay.  The Strategys objective is to protect, restore and plant trees on approximately 280,000 has of degraded land for timber production and restoration of natural forests, managing forests sustainably. Additional revenues are expected to come from carbon removal credits and manufacturing of FSC-certified wood products. IFC expects the Project to have climate mitigation effects through forest restoration, afforestation, and sustainable forest management.  Beyond the Project, IFC anticipates contributions to promote environmental sustainability by financing among the largest initiatives to restore and preserve native forest in the ecologically important Cerrado biome in Brazil.
Estre Ambiental The project consists of financing Estre Ambiental S.A.s (Estre or the Company) 2008-2010 investment plan (Investment Plan). The Investment Plan includes financing to support the companys capital expenditure and growth strategy to:   - upgrade and expand Estres existing landfill facilities and associated landfill gas (LFG) collection and combustion systems,  - develop new sanitary landfills, including deployment of LFG collection and combustion systems,  - acquire and expand solid waste management related businesses,  - develop LFG-fired power generation projects in selected landfills, and  - enhance corporate management information system. Improve Urban Environmental and Social Quality.    Proper disposal of urban solid wastes is critical to maintaining and improving urban environmental and social (E&S) quality. This requires that adequate landfill capacity be available near urban areas. The Project supports the expansion of existing landfills and development of new landfills which will provide additional available capacity to dispose of urban municipal and industrial solid waste.  Mitigate Adverse Impacts from Non-Sanitary Disposal.    Only around 39% of the municipal solid waste collected in Brazil is disposed of in sanitary landfills. The rest is disposed of in open dumps or in landfills without adequate protection against adverse environmental and social impacts. Modern, sanitary landfills, such as the ones developed and managed by Estre, provide substantial environmental and social benefits compared to traditional solid waste destinations.  Contribute to GHG Reductions.    Estre expects the five existing landfills that it owns and operates in Brazil to generate 3.1 million CERs through the capture and flaring of landfill gas. The Company plans to install and operate LFG collection and flaring systems at all its new landfills, and where feasible, use the LFG to generate electricity.  Increase Renewable Energy Supply.    Estres Investment Plan includes the installation of a 9MW and 3MW LFG-fired power plant at two of its landfills. Besides supplying additional energy into the Brazilian grid and thus helping meet growing electricity demand, the two projects will generate power from a renewable source of energy. The LFG collected, if not used to generate electricity, would otherwise be flared.
Mauricio de Nassau II Ser Educacional S.A. (Maurício 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 approximately 55,000 students mainly from the middle and low income social classes. Maurício currently runs fifteen campuses in ten different states. Mauricio is undertaking a 2-year investment program to (the Project): (i) modernize and improve its existing campuses; (ii) open 2 new campuses in the Northeast of Brazil; and (iii) make new acquisitions. i. Raise quality standards: Strengthening the Company''s position as a leading education company in North and Northeast regions of Brazil will pressure other institutions to raise the quality of their services in order to remain competitive;  ii. Improve access to services: the Company''s plan to expand its network in the Brazilian North and Northeast will enhance the country''s education infrastructure and improve access to quality, affordable post-secondary education services for lower income students;   iii. 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.
Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. Credit Line Unibanco provides banking, insurance, leasing, brokerage and asset management products through relatively independent subsidiaries.  Under the proposed credit line, on-lending will be made for projects in the areas of  sanitation, development of water and sewage services, small power plants including biomass-based energy plants, industrial expansion, and environment support.     The credit line would be used to finance companies that have viable projects, but have limited access to term financing.  The project is a response to:    	a) Strong demand for and inadequate availability of long-term financing for private infrastructure projects.   	b) Inadequate financial resources for the private sector and exports.    Even for the more efficient firms, capital scarcity has been a major constraint  to modernize plant and equipment, expand to meet external competition, or take advantage of new opportunities opened by changes in relative prices.  Under todays market conditions, with access alternately closed (when bad news occurs) or open only for top-quality credits, the ability of Brazils private sector to borrow externally remains minimal, and limited to a few blue chip companies and banks for short maturities at high rates.  IFC''s credit line will help provide much-needed long-term financing to Brazilian companies.  Furthermore, it will enable IFC to help a relatively large number of Brazilian corporates more efficiently than through direct IFC lending.       This project has important benefits for Brazils financial and infrastructure sectors--both key in promoting growth. Increased productivity in a globalizing environment is today''s challenge for Brazilian firms, which, historically, have mainly competed against other domestic producers.  In this connection, improving the countrys infrastructure is a priority of the government of Brazil, since major bottlenecks are emerging in power, ports, railways, gas, roads, urban transport, and water, due to low investment over many years.       Given the weak investor confidence in emerging markets, there is a major capital and financing constraint, and several initiatives have been delayed or put on hold.  The proposed credit line will be critical to the countrys rehabilitation and expansion efforts, as it continues to recover from the recent difficult environment and as the Brazilian companies brace for competition in globalized markets.
Ecovia NW Bridge The proposed investment is a bridge facility of up to BRL 700 million for Concessionaire de Rodovias Noroeste Paulista S.A. (the Company). The Company was established to operate, improve, and maintain 600 km of brownfield toll-road segments in the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil, under a 30-year concession awarded in 2022. The Project is expected to result in improved quality in the toll-road, by increasing capacity with lane expansions, reducing accidents, and incorporating technology solutions with traffic monitoring systems and digital toll collection. In addition, tariffs will decrease and new discounts will be offered to the users. Beyond the Project, this transaction is expected to enhance the competitive structure of the market and increase the share of private participation in the sector, especially by demonstrating the viability of the ongoing concession agreements in the sector.
BI Gender Incl BI-Gender Inclusion (Project # 32605), consists of an A/B syndicated loan of up to US$ 65 Million to Banco Industrial do Brazil (BIB, Banco Industrial or the Bank), a midsized SME bank in Brazil, and an existing IFC client.     The above loan will support BIBs lending operations to the SMEs, with at least 50 percent of the total funds earmarked to funding women-owned businesses. Therefore, the above Project will assist BIB to promote financial inclusion of women entrepreneurs in Brazil.  The Project would include eligibility criteria on the use of proceeds related to the profile of the sub-borrowers (women entrepreneurs), as similarly done in other IFC projects in Brazil. The expected development impacts of this project are: i)	The key development objective of this project is to increase financial inclusion for SMEs in Brazil with a special focus on women-owned business ( at least 50 % of the project amount will be used to on-lend to women-owned SMEs ).  ii)	This project is intended to have a demonstration effect of the business opportunity presented by women entrepreneurs as an under-served market in Brazil. iii)	Foster competitive environment in the Brazilian banking sector.    Furthermore, given that the project targets financial inclusion which gives people the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives.  Furthermore, World Bank Group research shows that focusing on access to finance for female entrepreneurs has the following benefits: a)	Increasing opportunities for women entrepreneurs is key if the global economy is to have sustained and more equitable growth b)	Women entrepreneurs create jobs that are more likely to employ other women  c)	Women are more likely than to men to contribute additional income to household poverty reduction and improved nutrition and schooling for their children; and d)	Giving women entrepreneurs access to credit and increasing their economic power will translate into improve livelihoods for a wide cross-section of society.
DARP NPL Jive II The proposed project entails investing in the Brazilian distressed assets market in partnership with Jive Investments Gestão de Recursos e Consultoria S.A. (Jive or the Company). It will consist of an investment in a special purpose vehicle, to be established by Jive and IFC, to acquire distressed assets (DARP SPV Jive II) (the Project). Stakeholders impact: The Project will support the acquisition and resolution of small and medium enterprises (SME) and corporate distressed assets in Brazil. By creating a more active distressed market, it will help: (a) financial institutions to offload distressed assets, and consequently release capital and decrease their liquidity needs, which will strengthen their capacity to increase their lending activity; and (b) Brazilian companies to normalize their defaulted obligations, regain access to credit and continue their operations. The Project will also support companies by providing immediate liquidity through the acquisition of their existing legal claims and precatórios.
 Market impact: IFC expects the Project will contribute to further develop the Brazilian distressed assets market by supporting Jive, an integrated asset manager and servicer which services a wide range of distressed assets. These are assets are currently not resolved in the market in an efficient manner.
Bauducco I Project Pandurata Alimentos Ltda. (Bauducco or the company) has an investment program for 2007-2010 to expand its production and logistics capacity. The investment program includes:   - the expansion of its Extrema (state of Minas Gerais) and three of its Guarulhos (state of Sao Paulo) plants; - the construction of a new distribution center and administrative offices in Guarulhos; - the construction of a new plant; and  - incremental working capital. IFC will support the Investment Program of a competitive Brazilian company. It will support the continued growth of Bauducco by helping the company in the expansion of its plants and construction of the new plant outside the state of Sao Paulo, which would mean an increase in the total companys capacity by 33% by the end of the Investment Program.  - Other Benefits:  Employment:   By the end of 2006, before the Investment Program started, Bauducco directly employed 2,600 people and 1,200 seasonal jobs. As the Investment Program develops, the company shall hire new employees across its units, and will employ a permanent staff of 3,800 people (additional 1,200), who receive a number of benefits such as full medical insurance, life insurance, pension funds and a bonus scheme based on the companys performance.
Latapack Growth Headquartered in the city of Sao Paulo, Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda (Latapack or the Company) is an established Brazilian manufacturer of aluminum beverage cans.     Founded in 1995, Latapack is Brazils third-largest producer of aluminum cans, mainly for Brazilian brewing companies, with a 18% domestic market share. The Company has three production facilities: (i) a can body plant in Jacareí, São Paulo State; (ii) another can body plant in Três Rios, Rio de Janeiro State, and (iii) a can end plant in Simões Filho in the State of Bahia.  Latapack is undertaking an Investment Program consisted of the installation of a new plant at the city of Alagoinhas, in the state of Bahia to produce aluminum can bodies on 3 sizes, 12oz, 16oz and sleek. The new plant will respond to the rapidly growing market demand for aluminum cans in Brazil and especially to the countrys Northeast Region. Also, Latapack will increase its can end capacity in its Simões Filho plant to meet the additional production from Alagoinhas plant. (i) Development and employment generation (136 direct employees) in a frontier region of Brazil (100% of the investment in the Bahia State);  (ii) Increase the production and utilization of easily recyclable packaging materials;  (iii) Increase of energy efficient manufacturing process, including new CDL technology;  (iv) Increase of supply in an underserved market/replacement of imports; and (v) Indirect Positive Base-of-Pyramid effect.
Usina Delta S.A. Usina Delta S.A. (Delta or the Company),  is a sugar and ethanol company, based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, that operates three mills with a combined sugarcane crushing capacity of 10.5 million tons.  In the season ended in March 2013, the Company produces about 500,000 tons of very high polarity sugar, about 230,000 tons of crystal sugar, about 250,000 m3 of ethanol (sold mainly for use as fuel to substitute petroleum derivatives for motor vehicles) and about 330 MWh of electricity per year through bagasse-fueled co-generation, most of which is sold to outside parties.   The proposed IFC Loan entails providing a tranched corporate facility of US$ 80 million with final loan maturities expected to be between 7 and 9 years. This facility is composed of a senior loan of US$ 40 million from IFC''s own account, a syndicated loan of US$ 20 million, and US$20 million from IFC acting in its capacity as implementing entity for the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program. The Loan is part of a financing package for Deltas 3-year capital improvement program. During this period Deltas investments include cogeneration capacity expansion, industrial upgrades as well as sugarcane replanting and treatment (the Project). The most relevant development impacts are expected to be on climate change mitigation and on assisting communities in frontier regions. The effect on climate change mitigation will come from the co-generation investment, which will be enough to power a city with 180,000 people, thereby  promoting the use of renewable energy in a country with expanding demand. The frontier region supported by the investment is Cerrado region. The Project will foster economic development in the Cerrado by increasing agricultural production and creating jobs in areas which are highly dependent on the agricultural sector for income generation.
Suape International Container Terminal The project company, Tecon Suape S.A., is a special purpose Brazilian company, which was established to build, develop and operate the container terminal at Suape port under a 30-year lease from the Suape Port Authority. The projects objective is to build, develop and operate berths 2 and 3 at the port.  The project cost covers the first phase of investments, which includes acquisition and installation of container handling equipment, development of the container yard, construction of office buildings, and installation of computer systems.    The project is expected to have a positive developmental impact, as it will help reduce overall transport costs and increase competitiveness of exports from the north-east of Brazil by improving operational efficiency and lowering rates at Suape and neighboring ports. IFC''s role in the project is to provide the necessary financing to Tecon Suape at a time when international and local long term financing for infrastructure projects is scarce.
Borborema Project Crusader Resources Ltd. (Crusader or the Company) is a junior mineral exploration company organized and existing under the laws of Western Australia, Australia.  The Company is focused on the development of the Borborema Gold Project (Borborema or the Project) located in Rio Grande do Norte, in Northeastern Brazil.  Borborema, Crusaders flagship project, is an advance gold exploration project which has a gold resource of 2.43Moz of which 1.6Moz (@1.18 g/t) are classified as reserves.  The Project is at the feasibility stage and Crusader is currently conducting an optimization study to determine the Projects optimal size.  The Project hosts the old San Francisco mine which operated in the 1980s and produced 100,000 ounces of gold.     IFCs investment will support the optimization study on Borborema and further exploration in the Serido belt in which the Project is located. The proposed investment is considered an early-stage investment preceding a project construction decision. Generally, pre-construction stage projects have limited development impacts.  The expected development impacts during the construction and production phases would include:  (i)	Supporting local economic development through the generation of direct and indirect employment opportunities to the communities of Currais Novo and Campo Redondo.   (ii) Fiscal receipts in the form of taxes, royalties and foreign exchange.  (iii) Development of Community investment programs; and (iv) Demonstration effect to other mining companies on how to develop large-scale commercial mining in accordance with good international industry practices.
Icatu Equity Partners Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Brazil-Icatu Equity Partners              Region    Latin America & the Caribbean        Sector       Project No008608   Projected Board DateDecember 18, 1997   Company NameIcatu Equity Partners   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	The projects primary sponsor is Banco Icatu.  Banco Icatu is controlled by the Almeida Braga family.    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	US$200 million, including IFCs proposed investment of US$20 million.  In addition, IFC would exercise co-investment rights for up to US$10 million to co-invest with the Fund in selected portfolio companies.    Location of project and Description of site    	Brazil    Description of Company and Purpose of Project    	The project involves establishing Icatu Equity Partners (IEP), a US$200 million private equity fund.  IEP will seek influential minority equity positions in Brazilian mid-sized enterprises.  A key role for IFC in this project will be to catalyze the flow of additional equity finance in Brazil from a broad base of foreign institutional investors.     Environmental Category and Issues    	This is a category FI project according to IFCs environmental review procedures.  Icatu has committed to establishing an environmental management system that will ensure that investments are consistent with applicable host country environmental laws and regulations as well as applicable World Bank environmental, health and safety guidelines and policies; designating appropriate individuals who will have responsibility for environment; attending IFCs environmental management workshops; submitting an environmental management plan; ensuring that category A projects are cleared by IFCs Environment Division; and submitting an annual environmental performance report.       Date SPI sent to PIC     November 5, 1997      This Summary of Project Information is prepared and distributed to the public in advance of consideration of the proposed transaction by the Corporations Board of Directors.  It is provided for the purpose of enhancing the transparency of IFCs activities and should not be construed as presuming the outcome of IFC Board consideration.    For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 974-4384
Rede Dor Growth 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; }   Rede DOr São Luiz is the largest network of independent private hospitals in Brazil, with a network of 34 own hospitals and 2 hospitals under management totaling 4.7 thousand beds. It has an impressive growth and execution history (Net Revenue CAGR11/15: 32.5%), with proven successful track-record of executing 7 greenfield hospitals and acquiring 27 hospitals since 2005, consolidating itself as the market leader in a very fragmented sector. The Company mainly serves patients with private insurance plans that today represents approximately 25% of the Brazilian population, operating on a fee-for-service basis, but pro-actively partnering with the payers to promote a more integrated solution. This will be the third IFC project with this client. The project consists of the support for the Companys investment program for 2016-2022 period, which comprises brownfield and greenfield projects to add approximately 3.5 thousand beds to the Companys network. Taking advantage of favorable market environment, the Company is also seeking for additional liquidity to pursue opportunistic acquisitions. The group has an active and expanding research focus plus undergraduate and graduate training initiatives. Rede DOrs research institute, IDOR, has been particularly active on developing cutting-edge research on the effects of the Zika virus on newborns and its studies have been published internationally. - Act as a catalyst for the professionalization of the private hospital sector in Brazil, through the implementation of Rede Dor's best practices in medical, E&S and corporate governance standards into the newly acquired hospitals;
- Expand access to high quality medical care, as demand for high-quality tertiary care is increasing in Brazil, and international standards of care are still limited and insufficient throughout the country;
- Enhance  cost competitiveness by supporting a scalable business model in a very fragmented and inefficient sector;
- Potential for a climate friendly IFC investment, through the implementation of greenbuilding standards in the new greenfield facilities;
- Employment of local professionals, most of them women (75% of the Company's workforce);
- Address Brazil's important skill gap issue by providing adequate training to the workforce through Instituto D'Or (IDOR). IDOR is also initiating an undergraduate education program and has also initiatives in specialization programs and partnerships with several national and international universities;
- Support Zika-related research undertaken by IDOR with results getting international exposure and similar research being extended into the future;
- Improve the quality of the public healthcare system, as Rede D'Or has a partnership with the Rio de Janeiro State Government to manage a 80-bed pediatric hospital that has an average of 17 daily procedures, ranging from medium to high complexity surgeries such as transplants and cancer treatment.