A Consulting Firm Specialised in Financing Private Sector Projects in Iraq
Managed by a team with two decades financing private sector projects in Iraq and over four decades of financing experience in global emerging markets, Dolavon supports clients in obtaining financing and lenders in identifying creditworthy projects in Iraq.
Where we specialise
Financing Projects
Credit assessment of Iraqi private sector projects, preparing business plans and loan applications, identifying co-financiers (Loan syndications).
Loan Management
Project and loan portfolio management, commercial and financial performance and compliance with loan agreement terms.
Development Finance Seminars
Strengthening the credit analysis skills of university business students, emphasis on costs, risks and renewable energy sources.
About Us
Jorge R Vila is the founder and Managing Director of Dolavon GB Ltd.
As General Manager of the Iraq Middle Market Development Foundation (IMMDF), a DFC-funded (www.dfc.org, formerly OPIC), United States company from 2009 to 2024, he led a team that financed 52 private sector projects of small and medium sized companies in Iraq, with outstanding results identifying creditworthy projects and originating and monitoring loans.
He founded Dolavon in the United Kingdom, where he lives with his family, to continue to support Iraqi private sector clients in obtaining financing for their projects, as well as international lenders in identifying creditworthy projects in Iraq.
Dolavon also offers development finance seminars to strengthen the credit analysis skills of business students at universities in Iraq and the United Kingdom. Designed to take students through the analysis of costs and risks of financing projects from a practical perspective, these seminars include industry specific case studies of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power.
Mr Vila is an Argentina-born Spanish citizen with 43 years of experience in global emerging markets, at leading private and public-sector commercial, investment and development financial institutions in Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Buenos Aires and London since 1979.
With a business and legal background, he has extensive experience identifying, structuring and implementing financing and co-financing options for private sector projects of small and medium sized financial institutions and companies in emerging markets, including conversions of debt to equity and to local capital markets and other debt restructuring vehicles.
