Manfred Kammans

European Consultant

Manfred is a consultant to Endeavour with specific focus on Continental Europe and German speaking countries. He has more than thirty years of experience in working in International Banking, Corporate Finance and Project & Structured Finance at WestLB AG with longer secondments to New York, London and HongKong. The last 15 years he held senior management functions in WestLB’s Global Structured Finance unit as a member of the Executive Committee, as Global Head of Metals & Mining – Commodity Finance – Trade & Export Finance and prior to that as Sector Head of Energy/Metals & Mining for EMEA & Asia. As a result, he has wide experience in advising on, arranging and packaging of cross-border funding sources for specialised financing and acquisition situations.

Manfred Kammans Deal Experience

• Glencor/Billiton, Project Kudu Acquisition, US$575m – Lead Arranger
• Oxus, Amantaytau Project Financing, US$30m – Lead Arranger
• Bema Gold, Kupol Project Financing, US$442m – Lead Arranger
• Oriel Resources, Voskhod Mine Financing, US$120m – Lead Arranger
• Base Resources, Kwale Project Financing, US$170m – Lead Arranger
• Mercator Minerals, Corporate Facility, US$130m – Lead Arranger
• Rio Tinto, Acquisition of Alcan, US$40,000m – Arranger
• Xstrata, various – Arranger/Lead Arranger
• CEMEX, Acquisition of parish cement companies, US$1200m – Lead Arranger
• Gazprom, Bluestream black sea gas pipeline financing, US$2,000m – Lead Arranger
• International Power, Hub Power IPP Financing, US$830m – Co-Arranger
• Enron, IPP Project Financing in Poland, US$130m – Lead Arranger
• Various Exporting Commodity Producers, Pre-Export Finance transactions, US$100m – US$3,000m – Lead Arranger