Sovereign

Equity Investors

Sovereign's clients include major multinational companies located in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. Sovereign can provide multinational corporations or project sponsors with political risk insurance for tenors up to 15 years and per-transaction amounts up to $125 million. Sovereign's Equity Investors coverage protects against financial losses due to a wide variety of political and economic events that deprive equity investors of their fundamental ownership rights and interests or cause physical damage to the insured assets. These events include:

- Confiscation, Expropriation, Nationalization or "Creeping" Expropriation, including discriminatory legislative actions implemented by the host government;

- War and/or political violence events in the host country;

- Forced abandonment or forced withdrawal following war and/or political violence events in the host country;

- License Cancellation or trade embargoes making continued operations impossible;

- Non-payment of an arbitration award following the breach of a key investment agreement;

- Foreign exchange shortages in the host country, including the inability and/or unwillingness of the Central Bank to process foreign exchange transactions;

- Transfer restrictions implemented in the host country;

- Expropriation or blockage of bank accounts in the host country;

Sovereign can insure investors for their contribution in the form of equity, branch capital, shareholder loans or guarantees and can cover new investments, existing investments or privatizations (where minority or majority shareholdings can be covered). Sovereign's coverage is available for all industry sectors, including:

- Telecom

- Power generation

- Oil and Gas

- General manufacturing

- Mobile assets such as aircraft and equipment

- Mining

- Water

- Agribusiness

- Electrical distribution

- Roads and transportation

- Other infrastructure

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