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Deep Ravines

River Bend Impact is an independent advisory firm providing consulting services across Impact Finance, Investment Risk, and Strategic Financial Advisory

 River Bend Impact specializes in unlocking the most challenging projects and transactions to extend the reach of private capital. We focus on managing investment risks and designing innovative capital strategies to drive positive social, economic, and environmental change.

We have a passion for helping social enterprises achieve sustainable growth, accelerating climate finance to emerging and frontier markets, and shifting capital flows towards the highest impact companies, communities, and solutions.

Advisory Services

Piece of architecture in the desert

Impact Finance

Services

  • Debt placement in impact capital markets

  • Fund design and transaction structuring of blended finance vehicles

  • Capital raising and execution

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Who is it for

  • Social enterprises operating in emerging and frontier markets

  • Impact advisory firms

  • Impact fund managers

  • Non-profit organizations 

Piece of architecture in the desert

Investment Risk

Services

  • Credit risk

  • Portfolio mangement and stressed/distressed situations

  • Country risk

  • Climate risk

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Who is it for

  • Impact fund managers

  • Private foundations

  • Other private investors managing impact investment portfolios deployed across sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia.  

Piece of architecture in the desert

Strategic Financial Advisory

Services

  • Fractional CFO:

    • Financial strategy and capital planning

    • Capital raising with a focus on first-time debt raises 

    • Support with M&A and other special situations

  • Business restructuring:

    • Support with stressed situations

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Who is it for

  • Private companies 

  • Social enterprises operating in emerging and frontier markets

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