How can I raise a total of 200.000.000 euro for investments in the energy sector in Africa. The money will be used for leveraged finance.

The question was asked first on LinkedIn where other answers can be found. My answer was:

“Dear Lodewijk,

To help us better understand what you want to do, perhaps you will want to the answers to some basic questions like:

- What are your key organizational characteristics?

- What are your key organizational challenges?

- What do you mean by success?

- What kind of evidence are you prepared to disclose to support your effort to raise the money?

- How do your organization's senior leaders lead?

- How do you govern and address your social responsibilities?

- How do you develop your strategy?

- How do you obtain and use customer and market knowledge?

- How do you build relationships and grow customer satisfaction and loyalty?

- How do you measure, analyze, and then improve your organizational performance?

- How do you manage your information, information technology, and organizational knowledge?

- How do you engage your co-workers to achieve organizational and personal success?

- How do you build an effective and supportive co-worker environment?

- How do you design your work systems?

- How do you manage and improve your key organizational work processes?

- What are your charted product and service performance results over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- What are your charted customer-focused performance results over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- What are your charted financial and marketplace performance results over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- What are your charted workforce-focused performance results over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- What are your charted process effectiveness results over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- What are your charted leadership charted over the period of the last three years? What trends do you see? How do your results compare to competitors and benchmarks?

- Will you be able to provide the answers to such questions in a written statement of less than 50 pages?

This approach of writing this statement must then be followed up with deployment to persons who are in a position to formally and legally provide an investment prospectus. But the spade work is in the answer to these and other questions. John”

What do you think?

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Thanks.

John Darrouzet