WHO IS ARGENTA?

Argenta Group LLC is a private equity firm specializing in the creation and funding of Public-Private Partnerships. With a long history of working closely with public entities, the principals of Argenta have recognized how recent market changes have affected public sector efforts to create economic development and finance public projects. Through collaboration with cities, counties, public sector consultants, and construction experts, Argenta has developed a financial model to stimulate economic development, increase public entity revenues and provide a funding alternative for public projects. Agenta projects, both large and small can be funded within a 90 day period.

. . . [A] government's risk-adjusted average cost of capital typically exceeds its cost of debt because the public sector takes on project-specific risks such as cost overruns and delays that need to be factored into the cost of capital for each project it undertakes . . . Moreover, even though the private sector takes on some of risks of construction, time overruns, and project performance, it can better control its capital costs by making efficient use of resources.

-- Deloitte research study, "Closing the Infrastructure Gap: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships," pg. 31. Download a PDF of the source (608k).

TARGET MARKETS

• HEALTH – hospitals (acute and ambulatory), medical centres, aged care
• JUSTICE – courts, police stations, prisons
• EDUCATION – schools, universities/higher education
• TRANSPORT – roads, bridges, interchanges, rolling stock
• TOURISM – convention centers, event/sports arenas, fine art centers, leisure facilities
• COMMUNITY – social housing, childcare, city offices
• PROPERTY – office, research, special-purpose
• WATER – treatment, recycling