Peter Ballinger Director, Business Development

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Supporting U.S. Investment Overseas
Peter Ballinger Director, Business
Development Istanbul April 14, 2008
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Tools to Support U.S. Investors

• Political Risk Insurance
• Finance (Debt)
• Investment Funds (Equity)

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Political Risk Insurance

• Covers U.S. Investors against
• Inconvertibility Inability to convert and
  transfer local currency into U.S. dollars.
• Expropriation Losses due to expropriation,
  nationalization or confiscation by a foreign
  government.
• Political Violence Losses due to war,
  revolution, insurrection or political motivated
  strife.
• PRI does not cover commercial risk or currency
  devaluation risks

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Finance

• Direct Loans Reserved for small business and
  cooperatives ranging between 100,000 and 250
  million.
• OPIC will only finance projects that are
  commer-cially sound, have at least 25 percent
  U.S. ownership, have significant collateral and
  generate enough cash flow to pay the loan.

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Finance

• Ways in which a SME can utilize this program
• Exporters who need to invest with a JV partner to
  increase sales
• Warehouses, distribution facilities, retail
  outlets, franchises, etc.
• What OPIC does not do
• Provide financing for export sales

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• For business development inquiries contact
• Peter Ballinger
• Director, Business Development
• 1 [phone] telephone
• peter.ballinger_at_opic.gov