Atlantic Capital International advises sovereign governments, institutional investors, and defense-adjacent developers on capital formation, renewable energy, healthcare infrastructure, and critical minerals across the Middle East, Asia, and U.S. federal markets. Our principal brings 25 years of direct transaction execution under federal authority, including $25B in Enhanced Use Lease and Other Transaction Authority programs.
Senior infrastructure and energy leadership with a record of structuring and executing large-scale public-private partnerships under 10 U.S.C. § 4022 and related federal authorities.
Atlantic Capital International's work spans utility-scale energy, national security real estate, defense industrial base modernization, and international capital advisory. The firm operates at the intersection of federal procurement authority and private capital, designing solicitations, structuring capital stacks, and managing transactions from feasibility through post-award execution.
ACI works alongside multilateral and development finance partners, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Energy Council (WEC), to structure and close transactions across socially responsible investment verticals.
Senior infrastructure and energy executive with 25 years structuring and executing large-scale federal P3 transactions spanning utility-scale energy, national security real estate, and defense industrial base modernization.
Strategic advisor with more than a decade of experience in government relations, business development, and cross-border deal facilitation across the Middle East, the Gulf region, and Africa. His commercial portfolio spans energy and technology, including a 1,000 MW solar power plant in development in Iraq, multiple structured oil-and-gas transactions, and infrastructure projects built from the ground up in Syria. He has also played a key role in launching an AI platform purpose-built for geopolitical and economic analysis.
Entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with extensive international experience across Europe and East Asia. Tom is the Founder of 1787 Capital Management and serves on the Global Advisory Council of a major Irish venture fund, providing strategic guidance on growth, investment, and global market development. He has built and scaled businesses spanning banking, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, renewable energy, and emerging technologies. He also serves as a senior executive with Eclimai, contributing to international expansion and strategic partnerships.
Feasibility, solicitation design, source selection support, and post-award lease management for DoD and civilian federal Enhanced Use Leases, Intergovernmental Support Agreements, and Other Transaction Authority agreements. ACI has supported programs under AFCEC, USACE, DASN(S), and Army Secretariat direction.
Utility-scale solar, battery storage, wind, and geothermal development advisory. Services include EIS support, power purchase agreement structuring, interconnection strategy, and capital raise, across both domestic federal programs and international markets in the Middle East and Asia.
Asset-backed securitization, green bond issuance, EB-5 capital stack design, and operating/capital lease scoring for FASB/GAAP compliance. ACI has supported $100M+ securitization programs and investment committee packages for institutional lenders.
Advisory and introductory services connecting international clients to U.S.-based healthcare operators providing remote, austere-environment, and occupational health services, including programs aligned with Optum Serve Global's clinical staffing, telehealth, and evacuation models.
Transaction advisory for critical mineral extraction, supply chain structuring, and offtake agreements in Asia and the Middle East, aligned with U.S. critical minerals strategy and allied-nation sourcing requirements.
Atlantic Capital International sources direct oil and gas contracts backed by sovereign nations. Our international footprint guarantees delivery, eliminates counterparty confusion, and links buyers and sellers in a direct commercial relationship, stripping out the cost and risk added by middlemen. We structure each transaction with state-backed counterparties, secure title and logistics under enforceable bilateral frameworks, and deliver contracted volumes on fixed pricing without intermediated markup.
Atlantic Capital International will structure the $600M financing for the Diyala, Iraq 1,000 MW (1 GW) solar energy project, anchoring procurement through major American equipment suppliers and operationalizing bilateral agreements between the United States and the Republic of Iraq.
Project Overview
The Diyala project advances strategic energy and infrastructure objectives across the Diyala Governorate. Atlantic Capital International leads the capital stack design, sponsor equity placement, and senior debt syndication, delivering a bankable structure aligned with Iraqi Ministry of Energy requirements and U.S. Export-Import Bank guidelines.
Execution Pillars
Capital Structuring: $600M blended finance package combining sponsor equity, ECA-backed senior debt, and host-country participation.
American Equipment Procurement: Direct sourcing from tier-one U.S. original equipment manufacturers, supporting domestic content thresholds for ECA coverage and U.S. jobs.
Bilateral Trade Framework: Execution under U.S. and Iraq bilateral commercial agreements, reinforcing long-term trade corridors and partner-nation interoperability.
Delivery Discipline: Full-lifecycle program management from solicitation through commissioning, with milestone-based disbursement and independent engineer oversight.
Strategic Value
The project demonstrates a working template for U.S. private capital deployment into allied-nation infrastructure. It builds durable commercial linkages, expands the export footprint of American manufacturers, and delivers grid-scale capacity to the Iraqi people on a fixed-price, performance-guaranteed basis.
Led the feasibility study and Environmental Impact Statement for the largest renewable energy project in the United States, structured as an Enhanced Use Lease delivering more than $80M in in-kind services to the 412th Test Wing. Ribbon-cutting held February 2, 2023.
Lead negotiator for the Navy's cable landing easement at Naval Air Station Oceana, securing $500M in grid upgrade value as in-kind consideration. The $9.8 billion CVOW project includes 176 turbines stretching as far as 42 miles off the Virginia Beach coast, with nine export cables running underground to a switching station at NAS Oceana.
Congressional advisory and transaction support for the Navy's IGSA with the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority, the largest public-private partnership executed by the Department of the Navy. The facility will support C-130 and HH-60W maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations, with the first C-130 induction planned for September 2026.
Led all phases of the Army's largest EUL from source selection through post-execution lease management. The 470-acre mixed-use office, hotel, and retail development at the main entrance to Redstone Arsenal will ultimately provide over 4 million square feet of developed space. Now also designated as the site for U.S. Space Command's temporary operations facility.
Project Manager for real property acquisition, rights-of-way, easements, and dark fiber interconnection in support of the Utah Data Center, the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, designed to store data at exabyte scale.
Led EUL program development for a 250,000 SF data center co-located with 35MW of renewable biomass energy, including source selection, lease negotiation, and OMB compliance under SECARM direction. The EUL offered approximately 60 acres of Arsenal land and facilities to the Arsenal Business and Technology Partnership for private development.
Led transaction development for a prototype OTA under 10 U.S.C. § 4022 delivering a 185,000 SF ICD-705 accredited RDT&E facility and anechoic chamber for NAWCAD, structured as a design-build-finance-operate-maintain-transfer model with Clark Construction, Blackstone, and Maryland Economic Development Corporation. Target commissioning: September 2028.
Director of Land Acquisition responsible for $50M+ in sale-leaseback transactions supporting a $100M green energy bond issuance, including FASB/GAAP operating lease compliance modeling and investment committee package preparation.
Let's structure the next transaction.