ANCILE AGRI AND FOOD INVESTMENT SUB-FUND
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES
The investment objective of the Sub-Fund is to achieve risk averse but efficient, both financially and socially and environmentally responsible, returns for Investors by:
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Extracting the most value from its investments in non-speculative, sustainable, and tangible Business Sectors in the Agricultural Sectors over the Region deployed to growing business and infrastructural requirements:
- Major Corporates by selectively co-investing alongside, and/or
- SME and/or Mid-Market Corporates by availing to them structured and secured funding (the "Investees"),
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While doing so, generate, through its investments, direct and long-lasting development impacts on the Investees’ capacity to generate sustainable wealth, and incentivizing ESG/SRI positive externalities (direct and/or induced) with a special emphasis on local food security, poverty reduction, environment quality and women empowerment.
INVESTMENT STRUCTURE
The investments will take the format of either:
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Co-participation(s) by the Sub-Fund in carefully selected physical commodities supply and/or sell transactions sourced, contracted and transacted by the Major Corporate. These transactions will therefore remain operationally managed by the Major Corporate with the Sub-Fund and its Investment Manager still overlooking and monitoring hands-on the performance of the underlying physical commodities transactions as per milestones defined during the transactions’ selection process. The investments by the Sub-Fund will be made through strict pari passu co-investment with the Major Corporate in one or a series of identical physical commodity transaction (the "Trade(s)") which cash cycle duration would be known with minimal variation, but which may repeat over a period of time solely with the consent of for a period defined by the Sub-Fund. The Sub-Fund’s investments will always be operated with the Major Corporate and the Sub-Fund will at no point be a direct counterparty to the Trades. The Sub-Fund will economically and legally participate in the Trade(s) through syndicated co-investment structures with the Major Corporate remaining as both a participant and the execution agent (the "Agent") of the Trade,
a. Defined fix profit or fix return for the Sub-fund, flat or pro rata temporis based,
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b. A known contribution ratio between the Sub-Fund and the Major Corporate as may be opportunistically defined by the Sub-Fund on a case-to-case basis, but with the Major Corporate retaining at least a minimum 10% participation either pari pasu or first loss.
and/or
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Direct structured and secured funding by the Sub-Fund for the Investees’ business and/or infrastructure growth requirement (the "Private Debt Transaction(s)").
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(the "Investment(s)").
The Sub-Fund will seek to invest directly or indirectly through a subsidiary and/or Local Asset Owning Subsidiary (the "Subsidiaries") as may be structurally best for efficiency. Accordingly, whenever deemed necessary the Sub-Fund may create Subsidiaries.
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In relation to this Sub-Fund, it is not necessarily the intention that these Subsidiaries will ultimately be held by a Luxembourg Holding Company as indicated in the descriptions in the "Tax" section of the Prospectus. It is not the intention for the Sub-Fund to create a Subsidiary for each transaction invested or jurisdiction used. The Subsidiaries and/or Local Asset Owning Subsidiary, where used, will have the following purpose:
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As a Security Vehicle: a subsidiary entity that will obtain the rights to the Trade and/or Private Debt Transaction’s collateral being encumbered in favour of, or owned by, the Sub-Fund as security to the Investment; or
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As an Investment Vehicle: subsidiary entity through which the Sub-Fund indirectly provides the capital participation as a form of investment. This approach will be used in circumstances where it is not deemed beneficial for the Sub-Fund to contract directly with the Investee due to unfavourable legal considerations.
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The Subsidiary’s chosen jurisdiction of incorporation will be guided by the requirements imposed to obtain fiscal conformity and/or legal efficiencies provided by the relevant jurisdiction pertinent to a specific Investment.