Great projects take time, funding them shouldn’t.

We structure debt for European projects and bring it to investors worldwide. Four business lines, structuring, agency, trustee and market access, taken as one mandate or on their own.

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How a project of value gets funded. Send us your project.

Our approach

Why Bluewater Capital

Capital markets are kept complicated because complexity is billable. We take it out.

Debt is simple. The whole deal comes down to one number. An investor says “I’ll pay 98.50.” Done.

AI finds the investors and reads the deal. It does not decide. The owner holds the value; the investor judges it.

Transparent, published pricing built for mid-market deals, not an institutional rate card.

Who we work with

We work for the project.

Sponsors, business owners and the agents who represent them. Investors don’t need another service provider. They need a deal worth pricing, and that’s what we bring them.

Sponsors

Sponsors backing sector expertise with capital and conviction. We give them the structuring and agency infrastructure to put a deal together without building the back office.

Borrowers

Business owners and management teams raising debt to grow. We shape the structure and put the deal in front of the investors whose appetite fits.

Agents

Placement agents and credit intermediaries. We equip them with deal-ready data and work alongside them, never around them.

Our business lines

01 — Structuring

The right vehicle, nothing more.

Every borrower needs a vehicle to reach the capital markets — a debt security, a private placement, a syndicated loan, a convertible. The vehicle’s only job is to get you funded, so we keep it simple and fit-for-purpose, not over-engineered. Over fifty years’ combined industry experience, nine years of clean operation, zero regulatory friction. Simple structures. Fast execution. Fundable deals.

Simon Pettitt
Simon Pettitt Lead, Structuring. Thirty years originating, structuring, and syndicating debt across the UK, Europe, and Asia.
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Diagram: outline of Luxembourg with international financial-centre markers and the four BWC product types — loan note, listed bond, securities-funded lending or syndicated loan, actively managed certificates.

02 — Agency

Agency services fail silently and impact deals.

Independent facility agent, payment agent, calculation agent, covenant monitoring, registrar. Run as an active business line not as a side-service. Bilateral and small-club structures, published pricing, no conflicts. Bespoke solution depending on covenant complexity and reporting cadence. Comparable institutional providers don’t publish their rates because their rates assume institutional deal sizes.

Shannon Grinnell
Shannon Grinnell Lead, Agency and Compliance. AML and KYC oversight across all engagements.
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Diagram of BWC's agency services.

03 — Trustee

The role is straightforward when understood and dangerous when underestimated.

Independent trustee for UK and European debt transactions. Holding security on behalf of lenders and acting on enforcement. Replacement appointments accepted where incumbents are exiting or unable to act. Conducted through Blue Water Trustees Limited (Companies House 12780682).

Michelle Rayner
Michelle Rayner Lead, Trustee. Trustee construction and enforcement, including contested multi-jurisdictional recoveries.
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Editorial illustration of a bank vault, representing security held on behalf of lenders.

04 — Market Access

The owner holds the value. The investor judges it. We make the match.

More than $500bn of undeployed private credit is looking for deals, and most of it sits outside Europe. We use AI to find the investors whose appetite fits your project, and we publish your deal in a form their credit teams can read in minutes. AI makes the match; it does not make the decision. The investor decides, and the answer is a price. Your data stays yours, published from your account under your permissions. Where a placement agent is the better route, we bring one on, paid only on capital raised.

Henry Porter
Henry Porter Managing Director. Leads client mandates and the firm’s market access work.
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Diagram mapping mid-market borrowers to lender appetite.

From Dallas to Dubai, the value is in the project, not the jurisdiction.

Faster to market, and priced for the mid-market.

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