New energies and natural resources
The new energies and natural resources team is responsible for providing structured financing solutions to support our clients focused on developing new energies, as well as to support the transition of conventional natural resources producers to a low-carbon economy.
The team has a strong track record in advisory and lead arranging roles, such as documentation, technical and environmental bank and bookrunner.
Our approach is to proactively work together with our clients to identify opportunities, propose adapted financing solutions for their projects, and contribute to their sustainability agenda.
The team has excellent business relationships with international energy companies together with the major Japanese trading companies and contractors. It has experience working with ECAs and multilateral agencies, as well as in Islamic finance and capital markets.
New and transitional energy project types
- Hydrogen
- Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
- Biofuels and geothermal
- Circular economy
Conventional energy project types
- Gas and LNG
- Midstream and pipelines
- Downstream and petrochemicals
See
reserves based lending for non-recourse financing secured by oil and gas fields.
Renewable energy
SMBC Group has an established track record within the EMEA region for renewable energy project financing, having participated in wind, solar and energy transition projects totalling more than US$85bn. With a total portfolio capacity in excess of 32 gigawatts, the bank’s EMEA renewable energy portfolio delivers more than 101 terawatt hours of clean energy every year, enough to supply 27 million households.*
SMBC Group regards renewable energy as one of its most important sectors for growth within the utility industry, and will continue to provide financing to clean energy projects throughout the EMEA region as the market matures.
Project types
- Wind – onshore, offshore and transmission
- Solar – concentrated solar power and solar photovoltaics
- Energy transition
Power, utilities, mining & metals
SMBC Group has a strong track record in arranging water and power utilities project finance transactions on a global basis. It is a leading bank that provides financing support to customers in relation to water and power projects tendered in the Middle East.
The bank has underwritten and arranged debt for such projects exceeding US$64bn, with a total capacity in excess of 56 gigawatts and 2,400 million imperial gallons per day in the Middle East.* As one of the most important sectors for growth within the utilities industry, the bank will continue to provide financing to sustainable and cost efficient energy projects.
Project types
- Combined heat and power (CHP)
- Independent power production (IPP)
- Independent water production (IWP)
- Independent water and power production (IWPP)
- Independent water, steam and power production (IWSPP)
- Metals – aluminium smelters
- Mining
- Transmission of electricity and gas
- Utilities – air separation and cooling
- Wastewater – sewage treatment plants
Infrastructure
SMBC Group maintains a leading position in the United Kingdom and continental European infrastructure markets. It has become the arranger of choice for the leading infrastructure sponsors in EMEA.
The bank has been active in the infrastructure and public-private partnership (PPP) market in the UK since the inception of such schemes. With many countries in Europe and beyond accessing private finance for the delivery of public services, the bank is providing a platform for infrastructure growth across EMEA.
In addition to the well-established sectors of health and education, SMBC Group also provides a market-leading service for growth areas such as smart meters and grids, social housing, water and waste water, urban regeneration, infrastructure asset acquisitions and fund financing.
Project types
- Defence
- Education – schools, colleges and universities
- Emergency services
- Healthcare
- Law and justice
- Smart meters and smart grids
- Social housing
- Sports and leisure
- Street lighting
- Urban regeneration
- Waste and wastewater
*Figures as of January 2021.
Transport
SMBC Group has extensive experience in providing project finance across the transport industry for rail, rolling stock, roads, airports and seaports. The transport team works with many of the key European contractors, advisers, and public authorities at both local and national level. The team members have experience as advisers, and as mandated lead arrangers of major European transport projects.
Project types
- Roads – availability-based road concessions, shadow and real toll roads, highway maintenance and road user charging
- Rail and rolling stock – light and heavy rail, passenger trains, freight wagons and locomotives
- Airports and seaports
See aviation finance and maritime finance for financing of aircraft and shipping assets.
Telecoms
SMBC Group has an established footprint in the European telecoms sector, financing a range of core national and regional communications infrastructure projects. The bank has supported leading global developers of data centres and national internet service providers as bookrunner and lead arranger on some of the most recent digital infrastructure transactions in the EMEA region.
Project types
- Fibre-optical cables
- Towers
- Data centres