Overview

National Standard Finance, LLC, is a US-based, multinational investment firm, asset manager and owner of real estate and infrastructure asset portfolios, specializing in long-term investments in social and economic infrastructure and Public Private Partnerships.

Often referred to as National Standard or NatStandard, the company finances, designs, builds, manages and acquires real estate and essential infrastructure assets for local, state and federal government agencies, as well as for private sector healthcare and energy-related enterprises.

Investments range from $10 million to as much as $1 billion, with target investment size between $50 million and $500 million.

"National Standard provides the lowest cost private alternative to public and bond financing by investing private capital into community and public sector projects."

National Standard Finance was a pioneer and one of the first private equity and infrastructure investment firms to focus on European private financial structures such as Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnership investments. Later, it led the way during the infancy of similar, privately financed government projects in the United States.

Historically, privately financed structures were used for very large European infrastructure projects such as roads and airports. As a private investor in public/private government projects, National Standard Finance has made private investment capital available to the U.S. market. Municipalities and projects at the city and county level, which previously had no access to private capital as an alternative to public bond financing, sought to take advantage of the National Standard financing model. These private capital alternatives to public bond offerings have become critical to local and state governments that need to maintain services to the community in the face of declining tax revenues and increased healthcare costs.

The firm has developed partnerships and joint ventures with important corporations that dominate the public social and economic infrastructure markets. National Standard established its foundation in the tumultuous 2007 - 2008 public sector markets. In 2009, governments and municipalities worldwide began to report substantial deficits and shortfalls. Bond markets struggled to meet demand, and the market was extremely volatile as monolithic insurers were downgraded and became insolvent. Because they could no longer rely upon the bond markets to meet financial needs, public sector leaders and politicians began to consider and pursue private sector capital solutions.

The investment firm has expanded beyond North America to include New Zealand, Australia and South Korea, Europe, South Africa and the People’s Republic of China. The firm has also been evaluating and planning infrastructure investments in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the Middle East.