Resource Play
Where Junior Mining Companies Find Capital from Japan
Who we are
We are Tokyo-based boutique consulting firm to assist junior mining companies connect with Japanese companies for your various needs such as in-person research, sounding your project, finding strategic partner in offtake-backed financing and project equity financing.
Managing Director Mr. Nakaba Chimura represented Ivanhoe group of companies as their country head and helped partner with Tier-1 Japanese companies for various mining projects worldwide for 17 years, where he was instrumental in raising in excess of USD350M.
With a successful track record and trust from his connections in the Japanese mining industry we encourage to work with us to help advance your mining project.
What we do
What we do is essentially one thing: connect you with the Japanese companies, be they strategic partners for your project as an equity or offtake partners. While Japanese companies are looking for good metal sources outside Japan, they will not talk to junior mining companies unless they know you well or entrusted by the public domains. Japanese companies often go after the big names such as BHP and Rio Tinto to avoid the obvious avoidable risks such as project permits, project completion, stable production and quality guarranteed delivery. For this reason, we believe there is a missing link between Japanese companies and the juniors as they are not under the radar scopes of the Japanese companies and vice versa.
We use our established connections with the Japanese companies, to introduce you and your project, represent your company and fulfill your needs on your behalf.
We open the doors for you to the Japanese capital market.
Why Japan?
Japan does not have industrial metals and is constantly looking for them, outside the country. Example of companies looking for sources include smelters and trading houses. These companies will be the offtaker and also the financier for your mining projects. When it comes to project financing they will go and talk to Japan’s export credit agencies like JBIC (Japan Bank for International Corporation, an equivalent of EDC: Export Development Canada) and NEXI (Governmental insurance company) or seek financial guarantee from JOGMEC.
These financing institutions provide arguably the most competitive interest rate in the world and will be available to you, if you partner with said Japanese companies. Junior companies often face financial shortfall and are restricted to limited funding sources such as private equities, Toronto Stock Exchange, Australia Stock Exchange, AIM and similar services. Japan can be your alternative sources of funding, if you are prepared to trade in some portion of your project equity or offtake from your project.
Why Choose Us
We have extensive personal relationships built through years of working relations, which gives us a strong access to the right contacts at the Japanese trading houses and smelters. We act like an investment bank who finds a partner for you to raise capitals and jointly develop your projects. However, we are not the investment bank, but a small consulting firm, which enables us to provide custom services to you.
We can conduct in-person market research, market interest investigation , finding strategic partner, offtake arrangement and project financing for various commodities in the mining, oil and gas spaces in Japan. Those who lack of capital for project development, looking for a partner to jointly develop a project, need a buyer for your commodity, please contact us.
We can facilitate the connection with appropriate Japanese companies to meet your needs.
