Services
What we do
A focused practice covering foreign direct investment, critical minerals, infrastructure, and commercial diplomacy — with clear mandates for investors, governments, and project sponsors.
We operate as one founder-led platform: Invest Shepherds LLC in Chicago, and Shepherds Oud Advisory as our European subsidiary in The Hague.
Critical Minerals Investment Platform
Preparing projects for institutional and strategic capital across African and corridor-linked supply chains.
We help governments, project sponsors, and investors ready critical-minerals opportunities for serious capital conversations.
Workstreams typically include data standardisation, ESG readiness, due diligence packs, permitting support, transaction preparation, and investor roadshows — so projects arrive investment-ready rather than concept-stage.
We connect resource holders, operators, and downstream partners across U.S.–Africa and Atlantic corridors, with particular attention to strategic minerals and industrial value chains.
U.S.–Africa & Lobito Corridor Focus
Corridor-based strategy for capital, infrastructure, and offtake linked to the Lobito Corridor and broader Atlantic routes.
The Lobito Corridor and related U.S.–Africa investment pathways are reshaping how critical minerals and infrastructure projects meet capital.
Invest Shepherds supports project screening, financing-structure conversations, offtake introductions, and institutional engagement for sponsors and investors active along these corridors.
From Chicago, we meet North American capital and operators where they sit. Through Shepherds Oud in Europe, we extend that work to European industrial and institutional counterparts.
FDI & Infrastructure Advisory
Full-lifecycle foreign direct investment and infrastructure support — from strategy to aftercare.
We advise economic development organisations, investment promotion agencies, and international companies on FDI strategy, sector targeting, investor engagement, site selection support, and aftercare.
Infrastructure and public-private partnership work focuses on durable structures between governments, investors, and operating companies — with clear milestones and accountable delivery.
Mandates can be retained representation, project-based campaigns, or performance-linked engagements tied to qualified leads, site visits, and announced projects.
Commercial Diplomacy & Market Entry
Navigating cross-border negotiations where politics, capital, and industry intersect.
Commercial diplomacy is how serious cross-border opportunities actually move. We help ministries, agencies, and companies design engagement strategies that open doors and convert interest into projects.
Services include structured outreach, trade mission and roadshow design, ministry and industry-association relations, partnership structuring, and market entry across regulated and complex environments.
European representation for destination clients is delivered through Shepherds Oud Advisory, our European subsidiary based in The Hague.