ECA | BoX

ECA Bureau of Experts (“ECA|BoX”) was established to assist foreign export credit agencies (“ECA”), insurance companies, and multilateral development agencies to do business in Brazil.

With headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ECA|BoX was conceived by its founding partners to provide specialized services in a one-stop-shop format. After more than 20 years of activity in the export credit insurance industry, the ECA|BoX partners recognized the unfulfilled needs of the export finance market and constituted a company to satisfy the demand for specialized services neglected by existing providers, such as law firms, risk assessment bureaus and financial advisers.

ECA|BoX is the result of a partnership between seasoned practicians with in-depth knowledge of the export credit insurance business, the needs of industry players and the local regulatory and economic environment. Our partners are former senior executives from the Brazilian ECA with ample involvement in the Berne Union as delegates, Vice-President and MLT Vice-Chairman, and an experienced attorney who has been assisting ECAs, backed lenders through his own law firm for decades, rendering services on the entire life of backed loans, from origination to the collection of credits.

The core business of ECA|BoX is to support ECAs and MLT guarantee providers in doing business in Brazil by offering (i) sensitive financial and economic information on potential transactions, (ii) credit risk assessment on local companies, (iii) country risk and economic sector analysis, and (iv) highly specialized local regulatory legal framework assistance covering the phases of export finance transactions, from origination to guarantee enforcement.

The company can also advise on the financial structuring of local cost and collateral guarantees as per the local legislation, as well as arrange guarantees for deals that require surety bonds.

ECA|BoX also offers support in (i) business prospection in Brazil, (ii) developing local finance projects, and the feasibility study, (iii) providing information on local industry, and (iv) sourcing short and long-term market projections.

The company's differentials are based on the one-stop-shop format, with full support to ECAs, lenders, and multilateral development agencies in Brazil at all stages of trade, export and project finance.