Finacom Investment House of The Park Lane Buildings, Guardamangia acted as adviser to Agrenco Group in Brazil to arrange a four different secured prepayment facilities amounting to $142 million.

The facilities include:

• a $30 million three-year pre-export facility and

• another $12 million three-year pre-export facility, both for Agrenco Madeira,

• a $15 million revolving warehouse facility for Agrenco Argentina, and

• an $85 million facility in derivatives transactions for Agrenco do Brasil

This was another successful approach to the international syndicated loan market by Finacom and will finance the warehousing and processing of non-GMO Brazilian soybeans, soy-meal and soy-oil for the 2008/9 crop.

On the advice of Finacom Investment House Limited, Agrenco’s subsidiaries mandated WestLB AG to act as sole arranger and lender. Based in Düsseldorf, Germany and partly owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, WestLB AG was incorporated on 1 January 1969. Total assets of the group are €292.1 billion with operations spread over Europe, The Americas and Asia, including significant investment banking operations in New York, London, Luxembourg, Tokyo and Hong Kong.