About

Background

Osprey Investments Group Limited is a privately owned British company with headquarters based in Nigeria, which has more than 50 years of presence in the resource rich West African country. We partner with world class technical companies and have consistently executed our projects on time and within budget. Osprey principally works in Oil & Gas, Agro-Industry, Solid Minerals, Environmental Remediation, Property Development, and Information Technology.

Osprey Investments Group Limited board members and managers have local understanding built over decades of industry and investment in Nigeria. The company has consistently and successfully delivered on projects, both technically and financially, leading to trusted partnerships with decision-makers, in government and the private sector in Nigeria and internationally.

Osprey Investments Group Limited is capitalised with US$100 million in shareholder funds/net assets and has offices in London, Abuja, and Kaduna.

Our financial strength means that we can help overseas partners share commercial risk. Osprey Investments Group Limited finds the right partners for the job. We are minority investors in Africa, and principle investors in Europe.

Our guiding principles are integrity, commitment, efficiency and excellence.

Osprey is keen to see and assist Nigeria in its development goals through the implementation of projects and initiatives that will go towards Nigeria achieving its vision of becoming one of the top twenty economies by the year 2030.

VISION AND STRATEGY

For more than 50 years, Osprey has been a trusted partner to the Nigerian federal and state government agencies developing innovative solutions to Nigeria’s most challenging problems.

Osprey draws on an extensive network of contacts and experience in Nigeria to support inward investments and technology transfer by international companies. Providing a broad range of investment and consultancy services, Osprey is committed to facilitating the delivery of world-class, transformational projects and investment to drive sustained private sector growth.

Our vision is to be the preferred and trusted partner for large international companies seeking to gain access and succeed in the West African market, particularly Nigeria.

Our strategy is to drive development in Nigeria, West Africa, and beyond by facilitating inward investment supported by world-class consultancy services delivered by competent technical partners. We achieve this by:

• Connecting potential investors to opportunities in Africa and specifically marketing investment opportunities in Nigeria to multi-national, global firms,
• Facilitating fair and durable deals between government and large multi-national firms,
• Promoting technology and skills transfer to local firms to improve efficiency, raise productivity and boost skilled employment,
• Helping multi-national firms understand the risk/return trade-off of investing in Nigeria, and
• Providing our clients with world-class technical resources.

Osprey Investments Group Limited is a British-based Investment, Management and Consultancy firm with over £20 million worth of shareholding funds on its balance sheet, property worth £10 million in Guernsey and Two Hundred Million Naira (N200,000,000.00) vehicular assets and properties in Nigeria.

Osprey has a long, successful and distinguished history of consultancy, management and investment in development projects worldwide, particularly in Nigeria with 50 years of experience through its Chairman and Founder, Dr. David Winn.

Osprey has worked closely with federal, state, and local governments in the field of Agriculture and Agro-allied Industrial development, particularly in the Northern States of Nigeria where Dr. Winn was heavily involved in the Agri-business sub-sectors of cotton, cereals and seed multiplication.

In 2005, Osprey Investments Group Limited was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Commerce to spearhead the development of the Nigerian Ethanol Sector and to make Nigeria self-sufficient in ethanol; increase large scale irrigated cassava production as raw materials within the north-central part of Nigeria as well as provide same to serve seven ethanol plants. This led to the signing of contracts and various negotiations for ethanol plants in Akwa-Ibom, Kaduna, Kebbi, Kwara, Kogi, Niger and Nasarawa States. Osprey was appointed as Project Manager capable of delivering the projects in Kebbi, Nasarawa and Niger States in partnership with China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (CMEC).

Osprey Investments Group Limited completed a due diligence audit of the textile industry by the Presidential Committee on the Revival of Textile Industry in Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Osprey Investments Group Limited completed various Food Security projects with the Adamawa State Government in line with the nation’s 7-point Agenda, the Grassroots Empowerment and Micro-Finance Programme and the Agricultural Master Plan which reflects the potential of the State to develop profitable projects for development, facilitation and implementation within its region.

Osprey recently completed the Nigerian National Gas Transportation Network Code Study for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Department of Petroleum Resources.

Osprey Investments Group Limited has key competitive advantages:

Osprey Investments Group Limited board members and managers have local understanding built over decades of industry and investment in Nigeria. Dr. David Winn and his team have developed business and personal relationships with key Nigerian decision-makers. With this experience Osprey Investments Group Limited can compete for – and win – valuable contracts.

Thanks to our knowledge and experience of Nigeria, Osprey makes things happen.

The company enjoys strong relationships with and, support from, Nigerian and foreign banks. Nigerian banks have provided performance bonds of up to N5 billion and Osprey Investments Group Limited has no debt.

Our financial strength means that we can help overseas partners share commercial risk.

Nigeria

Over the years, Osprey has engaged with the State and Federal Governments of Nigeria through the execution of a number of projects, including in the field of Agriculture and Agro-allied Industrial development, particularly in the Northern States. The firm was heavily involved in the Agri-business sub-sectors of cotton, cereals and seed multiplication as well as feasibility studies on solid minerals and oil and gas.

Osprey Investments Group can be your ethical partner in Africa’s most dynamic market.

Osprey focuses on the following key sectors in Nigeria:

United Kingdom:

Clarendon Serviced Apartments is a subsidiary of Osprey Investments which specialises in providing serviced apartments in London to businesses and individuals seeking temporary short term accommodation.

Since conception, 30 years ago, Clarendon has a firm reputation in London for the provision of high-quality serviced apartments in prime business locations. It is the preferred provider of temporary short term accommodation to businesses spanning all sectors; accommodating senior management, graduate training groups, contractors and families relocating to London.

With a growing portfolio of serviced apartments in the City (Tower Hill and Spitalfields) and in Canary Wharf London’s 2nd largest business district, Clarendon Serviced Apartments is well placed to support Corporate groups and a number of specialist sectors including the oil and gas sector, providing short let rentals close to Sunbury, Staines, Slough and in Canary Wharf, for contractors, engineers and consultants seeking short term rental accommodation.

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