Starzec Partners sources, structures, and arranges asset-backed financing for licensed trade operators, energy infrastructure, and green-energy projects across West Africa, connecting them with the capital that funds them.
Across Africa, the capital that moves trade, builds infrastructure, and finances green energy rarely comes from a bank. The ticket is too small, the timeline too short, or the project looks "unbankable" on paper, even when the underlying asset is real, collateralized, and cash-generative. That gap is where we work.
We source, structure, and arrange asset-backed financing across three verticals: short-tenor trade and commodity finance for licensed operators, structuring and capital-sourcing for energy and logistics infrastructure, and financing for green-energy and off-grid power projects. Every structure follows the same discipline: collateralized, independently controlled, and legally reviewed before a dollar moves.
Our founding vertical, and where we fund from our own balance sheet. Fuel is a physical commodity, and this is where we finance its trade: we advise licensed fuel importers and sellers in Ghana, known locally as BDCs and OMCs, and structure the short, self-liquidating facilities that fund it. We never buy, sell, or take title to the fuel; our role is to source and structure the deal, mitigate the risk, and see it through to completion.
A facility structured against the fuel plus a confirmed order the buyer has already agreed to.
Structured against a batch of fuel already in-country, held in storage tanks under independent control. The licensed importer holds it as the regulator requires, an independent party controls the tanks and the cash, and a licensed operator makes the sale. Nothing is shipped, so the cycle clears fastest.
Structured around a licensed importer's incoming shipment, secured by the cargo under independent control and the confirmed order. Longer, to cover the shipping time.
A share of a large importer's cargo instead of a dedicated shipment, which removes shipping and scheduling risk. On arrival it passes to a licensed operator to sell on, secured throughout.
We structure and source capital for the energy and logistics infrastructure that the trade we finance depends on. Here we act as originator and arranger: we structure the facility, then connect sponsors with the DFI, ECA, bank, and guarantee-fund capital that infrastructure tickets require.
Structuring capex and working-capital facilities for storage terminals, depots, and distribution infrastructure that underpin the trade we already finance.
Structuring the facility, then connecting sponsors with DFI, ECA, bank, and guarantee-fund capital sources matched to the project's risk and tenor.
We structure and source financing for solar, off-grid, and distributed-generation projects serving commercial and industrial demand, and for the working capital that moves the equipment behind them.
Structuring project financing for solar, mini-grid, and off-grid power serving commercial and industrial buyers.
Asset-backed working-capital structures for renewable-energy equipment trade and the inputs a green-energy project needs to reach completion.
We build the record before we scale. Each engagement below is from trade finance, our founding vertical, sourced, structured, and secured on the same discipline, and seen through to completion. Early, small-ticket facilities (under $500k) were funded from our own balance sheet. Infrastructure and green-energy mandates are underwritten on the same discipline as they move through origination.
The fastest way to lose money in trade finance is to fund a good story. Discipline is the product. It is the only reason a deal clears.
Downside protection is non-negotiable. Every facility is stress-tested and collateralized before anything moves.
Every deal is secured by tangible collateral: cargo, assigned receivables, or landed property. We structure; we do not speculate.
Repayment comes from the underlying trade, not the next deal. Short tenors, defined exits, USD settlement.
The borrower never controls collateral, collection, and valuation at once. Buyers pay into controlled channels; independent parties inspect.
We stay in every deal through to completion, on the same discipline we would accept ourselves, not just at signing.
No deal proceeds without legal review of contracts, collateral, and counterparty by our legal partner, BE Law Consult.
Ground-level origination in Ghana's energy sector, paired with disciplined structuring and capital partnerships.
Founded Starzec to bridge the capital–execution gap in Africa's energy sector. A Geological Engineer and Petroleum Geologist by training, and a finance and investment professional schooled in Ghana and London, he has led structuring engagements with international oil & gas companies and the Government of Ghana, and served on procurement panels assessing counterparties contracting with the state.
Brings a financial-services background across banking operations and project implementation, translating complex requirements into structured, executable workflows. She leads partnerships and deal origination, building trusted relationships with counterparties and institutional partners across the deal lifecycle.
Works with Starzec as an external advisor on capital strategy and structuring: how facilities are built, secured, and brought to funding partners. He supports the process across structuring, due diligence, and reporting in emerging-market trade finance.
Every deal is reviewed by our legal partner, BE Law Consult: contracts structured, collateral verified, counterparty diligence completed. No deal proceeds without legal sign-off.
Every facility is secured by tangible collateral at a minimum 1:1 coverage ratio: cargo, assigned receivables, or landed property that can be realised if needed.
Clear repayment schedules, defined exit mechanics, and performance covenants are built into every facility to protect the position from day one.
Continuous oversight of operations, cash flows, and covenant compliance, with early-warning triggers that enable action before issues escalate.
We work with two kinds of partner: licensed operators who need a trade sourced, structured, and funded, and capital partners looking for disciplined, asset-backed deal flow in West Africa's energy sector. Whether to compare notes or explore working together, we'd value the conversation.
Disciplined, asset-backed financing across our three verticals is the foundation, and our focus today. As the platform scales and the track record compounds, the same underwriting discipline extends into adjacent parts of the real economy.
Structuring physical commodity flows beyond fuel: metals, agricultural and soft commodities, on the same secured, self-liquidating terms.
Extending the same underwriting discipline into new West African trade and infrastructure corridors beyond Ghana.
Selective, long-horizon principal positions in the operators and assets we know best, once scale and completed cycles justify it.
The foundation does not change: collateralized, self-liquidating, disciplined. New verticals are added only as the track record earns them, never ahead of it.
In Africa, few businesses outlast the generation that builds them. Starzec is built to be the exception: a disciplined institution, and the relationships behind it, designed to endure and to create value that lasts beyond any single cycle or founder.