Blue Ocean Harvest, an emerging markets-focused provider of credit-based capital raising and advisory services, celebrates the firm’s ten-year anniversary today. The announcement marks a decade of successful global capital markets operations on behalf of the firm’s clients, with an emphasis on debt financing solutions. The independent firm specializes in project finance, corporate growth finance, and structured finance, with extensive experience in Latin America and a long-term commitment to Colombia.

“We thank our clients and stakeholders for their ongoing trust in Blue Ocean Harvest. We are proud of our reputation for quality execution in the global capital markets and we will actively continue our efforts to enhance both the local capital markets, and the market participants, within the developing countries in which we operate,” said JP Michel, founder and managing partner of Blue Ocean Harvest.

Founded in 2007, Blue Ocean Harvest operates an innovative Growth Financing Platform, connecting high-quality emerging market companies and concessionaires to the firm’s global network of institutional capital providers. The uniquely integrated platform combines proven debt structuring expertise with exclusive data analytics and a world-class ecosystem. This evolving ecosystem includes international and local banks, infrastructure investors, global debt investors, credit funds, pension funds, asset managers, multilateral organizations, and leading professional service providers.

Blue Ocean Harvest, in collaboration with its platform partners, creates lasting value for its clients by:

  • Ensuring the financial viability of critical renewable energy and infrastructure projects
  • Optimizing capital structures in support of companies’ local and international expansion goals
  • Building efficient frameworks to attract long-term global debt, equity, and hybrid investment

Carlos Velasquez, managing partner of Blue Ocean Harvest, concludes, “The global capital markets matter, as they are the key for emerging countries, such as Colombia, to unlock sustainable growth and realize their full economic potential. Our team is excited about the future and to continue serving as the bridge for our clients to access the global capital markets, now and for another ten more years.”

About Blue Ocean Harvest

Blue Ocean Harvest is an emerging markets-focused provider of credit-based capital raising solutions and advisory services. Headquartered in New York, with an in-country Colombia team, the independent firm develops custom global capital markets strategies for its clients, which consist of multinationals, middle market companies, infrastructure concessionaires, and government entities. Blue Ocean Harvest has successfully completed mandates related to the global capital markets and sovereign economic development across a range of emerging market countries and sectors, including energy, infrastructure, real estate, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and aviation. Collectively these mandates represent more than US 4.8 billion in direct investment.

For more information, please visit www.blueoceanharvest.com.