Meridian Universal was founded to support sustainable economic growth in developed and developing markets, specialised in energy and transport infrastructure.
We finance strategic infrastructure in North America, Europe and Asia, with a focus on critical interdependencies that underpin economic prosperity and resilience.
Our work involves getting involved at the policy level in each country we are active, where our solutions aim to support national development and economic goals for the betterment of society through private-sector and state-led projects.
Our Financing Strategy outlines our priorities and enables us to be flexible in a rapidly changing world.
Achieving civic stability through prosperity: using infrastructure finance to achieve sustainable economic growth in developed and emerging markets
Energy Security: Facilitating the adoption of renewable and cleaner energy technologies, helping countries expand or shift their energy infrastructure.
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Sustainable Economic Growth: Financing projects that enhance national industrial output, improve infrastructure, and enable increased trade, particularly for economies where these sectors significantly impact GDP.
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Sovereign Debt Advisory: Supporting governments in both emerging and developed economies to maintain sovereign debt solvency and improve fiscal stability through strategic infrastructure investments, liquidity programmes, and debt management.
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Better Health Outcomes: Financing healthcare infrastructure, whether private or public, to improve health outcomes and bolster resilience in underserved communities.
Solutions
Our financing strategy includes the following solutions:
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Construction Finance: Project Finance is our bread and butter, structuring and arranging medium-long-term financing solutions for infrastructure projects.
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Emerging Market Infrastructure Debt: Emerging markets for us mean most sub-investment grade economies from South-America to East Asia, in most cases where USD liquidity is short. We develop solutions that are mostly base-currency denominated but also try to use local currency where feasible.
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High-Yield Private Credit: We predominantly structure and arrange high-yield credit solutions given the nature of the institutional investor capital we work with - this is designed on a risk-matched basis with the relevant project or company and is competitive in each domestic market we employ this strategy - our purpose with our high yield strategy is to effectively match the risk and therefore support the projects and companies that need support whilst achieving the best possible yield for the investors. ​
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Credit-Enhanced Private-Credit: Where required, we have the ability to structure using credit-enhancement applications, including where using local currency solutions, or where investors require additional security in higher-risk markets. These can be in the form of DFI credit wraps or Bank guarantee mechanisms.
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Investment-Grade Infrastructure Debt: We serve institutional investment grade infrastructure investors, where these solutions are predominantly focused on our North America and Western Europe strategy. These solutions are mostly based on brownfield assets or are structured solutions with credit-enhancement in emerging economies.
Markets
Our target markets for strategic infrastructure financing include the following: ​
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North America: We are currently active in the United States, focusing primarily on social infrastructure, energy infrastructure, and transportation infrastructure that supports strengthening of the domestic economy.
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Asia: We are focused in supporting GDP per capita growth and raising of income status in Asia, focusing on transport infrastructure and energy infrastructure in Mongolia, Vietnam and Malaysia, with additional exploration in Sri Lanka and wider regional opportunities.
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Eurasia & Central Asia: We have active interests in strengthening mutually beneficial trade and investment in Eurasia, strengthening regional trade and industrial infrastructure. We are currently active in Türkiye, actively supporting inflation-reduction infrastructure development, including wider energy and industrial-related infrastructure, where we see expansion of the middle-corridor trade as a key driver for regional growth.
Research
Meridian actively researches and builds intelligence around the area of sustainable economic growth, sovereign debt sustainability and international capital market evaluation for emerging markets, and the role of infrastructure finance in the above. Given we are active participants in financing growth through infrastructure development, we have to be conscious and have command of what impact it has, and also what are the best strategies to employ in terms of financing structure, global solutions, and what are the long-term impacts to economies. Our Economists actively investigate and build intelligence and research around these topics which support our solutions.
