OPIC Selects Lyon Capital, Inc. & Athanasios Niforos as Originators for Enterprise Development Network
April 16, 2013
(OPIC)
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Overseas Private
Investment Corporation (OPIC) has selected Lyon
Capital Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based firm
specializing in international finance, business
development and strategic planning, and
Athanasio Niforo, a financial and investment
advisor, to serve as originators for a growing
alliance with the private sector designed to
support small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) expanding into emerging markets
overseas.
The alliance, the Enterprise Development
Network (EDN), is expanding the ability of OPIC
– the U.S. government agency charged with
facilitating U.S. private sector investment in
emerging markets – to provide financing to SMEs
doing business in developing countries.
Through the support of financial institutions,
business consultants, associations, law firms
and regional investment promotion agencies, EDN
is designed to enhance SME access to OPIC
products and services. By empowering such
service providers, the network is resulting in
more efficient, cost-effective delivery of
services to American businesses.
Lyon Capital, Inc. has been based in the
Washington D.C. area for over 20 years. It
specializes in assisting firms with strategic
financing, entering new international markets,
and strategic planning. Lyon Capital focuses
on technology, telecommunications, life
sciences, and aviation sectors. It brings
together experts in finance, business, law, and
U.S. federal government operations. Please
visit its website at:
www.lyoncapitalservices.com.
Athanasios Niforos, with over 20 year of
corporate lending, investment banking and
capital markets experience, specializes in
international business transactions involving
Latin America, MENA, Central and Southeast
Europe and Asia regions. He provides consulting
in the areas of infrastructure development and
project finance, wealth management, corporate
lending and cross-border financial
transactions, raising private equity funds with
primary expertise in the sectors of mature
renewables and energy efficiency, real estate
finance and development, hospitality, health,
agriculture and food processing. He has a
special focus on impact investments for clean
and “base-of-pyramid” infrastructure, green
affordable housing as well on SMEs with high
positive impact.
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