Hong Kong · China · United Kingdom · United States · Africa
CIIC McFaddens Holdings Limited is a cross-border enterprise combining a 40-year-old Chinese industrial conglomerate with a London-based legal, fund management and family office group — a single trusted institutional platform delivering Eastern industrial capability and Western institutional capital into African resource and infrastructure opportunities.
CIIC McFaddens at a glance
Our joint venture architecture is purpose-built to channel Chinese state-owned industrial capability and Western institutional capital into the high-growth markets of Africa — and to bring African resource opportunities to Eastern and Western counterparts.
A 40-year conglomerate with joint-venture relationships across the largest Chinese state-owned enterprises that built modern China.
A City of London law firm and fund management business with an unrivalled contact base across the UK, Europe and the United States.
Deep operational experience across African mining markets — the world's next major development frontier through 2050.
A resources, infrastructure and energy division addressing a US$10.9 trillion market, coupled with a US$1.4 trillion capital markets and advisory division.
The market opportunity
More than US$50 trillion of mined non-energy minerals are required over the next 25 years to deliver the energy transition and the mass urbanisation and economic development of emerging economies — the largest unresolved supply-chain problem in the global economy, and one for which no integrated solution exists today. CIIC McFaddens is entering these markets at the start of the growth cycle, not the end of it, with the platform, partners and pipeline already in place.
Africa's urban population is forecast to grow by 700 million by 2050, with GDP expanding 400–600% — an exponential increase in demand for the infrastructure and natural resources CIIC McFaddens can deliver.
A combined annual market across natural resource extraction, infrastructure and energy development, targeted by our Development Division.
An annual fund management and corporate advisory market that remains materially under-served in emerging economies, targeted by our Capital Markets Division.
The Africa opportunity · 2025–2050
The UK, Europe and Africa are priority markets for Chinese SOE expansion. McFaddens' operating experience across African mining markets is directly applicable to a sovereign-partnership model that brings resources to market faster, with greater returns to host governments.
The CIIC McFaddens bridge
A unique cross-border network spanning China, the UK and EU, the US and Africa. The relationships were built over decades and cannot be bought or assembled quickly; they are the reason the opportunity is available to CIIC McFaddens and not to others. Relationships reach national governments, state-owned enterprises and development-finance institutions.
State-owned industrial capability, infrastructure construction, sovereign capital and 40 years of cross-border operating history.
Holdings Limited
The institutional platform structuring cross-border deals, sovereign partnerships and capital flows — bringing Eastern industrial capability and Western institutional capital into Africa, and African opportunities to Eastern and Western counterparts.
City of London law and fund management heritage, US institutional access, and direct operational presence across African resource markets.
Joint venture partner · China
CIIC is a Chinese conglomerate established in the 1980s with deep joint-venture relationships across the largest Chinese state-owned enterprises that provide the infrastructure, energy and technology that built modern China — the same capability now needed across emerging and developing markets.
State-owned enterprise JV partners
Joint venture partner · UK & Africa
McFaddens, a London law firm tracing its history back to the 1980s, has co-founded a fund management and family office business, with an unrivalled contact base across the business communities of the UK, Europe and Africa — all priority markets for Chinese SOE expansion.
Deep operational experience across African mining markets — directly applicable to Unitas' sovereign-partnership model.
Sovereign-level access
Relationships reach national governments, state-owned enterprises and development-finance institutions, including China Development Bank representation within the leadership group, and over two decades of bipartisan Sino–US business cooperation.
Two synergistic divisions
The Development Division and the Capital Markets Division share a single technology-driven stack, lowering unit cost and underwriting the Company's preferred-partner positioning with sovereign clients.
Development Division · Addressable market
US$10.9TCombined annual global market: natural resource extraction, infrastructure and energy development, with an emerging-markets focus.
“Use of Geo AI to develop new productivity-enhancing applications, coupled with our global network, creates a structural competitive advantage.”
Resources, infrastructure & energy
A sovereign-partnership delivery model spanning natural resources, infrastructure and energy in emerging markets.
Geo AI technologies developed by Geognosis and licensed exclusively to Unitas for its target markets, delivering a measurable productivity uplift that competitors do not have.
Positions the CIIC McFaddens bridge as the preferred procurement and structuring partner for sovereign clients.
Capital Markets Division · Addressable market
US$1.4TAnnual fund management and corporate advisory market — materially under-served in emerging economies.
“Both divisions share a single technology-driven capability and cost layer — a structural advantage across the CIIC McFaddens divisions.”
Capital, funds & corporate advisory
Structuring and managing capital for emerging-market development opportunities, leveraging McFaddens' fund management and institutional relationships.
Cross-border M&A, capital raising and structuring services for sovereigns, SOEs and corporates active in target markets.
A shared technology stack with the Development Division reduces unit cost and underwrites the bridge's preferred-partner positioning.
A five-year path to Global 500 scale
Driven by the scaling of our two divisions. Leading corporate partners are already assembled: we are not seeking partners, the partners are in place.
Core growth engine
Unitas addresses the largest unresolved supply-chain problem in the global economy — the need for US$50 trillion+ of mined non-energy minerals over the next 25 years — and CIIC McFaddens believes it can transform mining the way Tesla transformed the automotive industry.
Expected to represent over 80% of group value at Global 500 scale, its scaling is the core driver of the projected leap in value.
The sovereign-partnership model
Master agreements with national governments, under which mining licences are granted for 25 years — Unitas as end-to-end resource development partner.
An inclusive platform advantage that increases government income by at least 50%, and brings natural resources to market 50% to 75% faster than current processes.
Unitas is a sovereign mineral development platform built to solve the two structural failures that cause mineral-rich nations to capture only a fraction of the value of their resources: the absence of geological data and the chronic underfunding of exploration.
Three core assets, built over five years
More than US$50 trillion of mined non-energy minerals are required over the next 25 years to deliver the energy transition and the mass urbanisation and economic development of emerging economies — the largest unresolved supply-chain problem in the global economy, and one for which no integrated solution exists today. Arran Critical Metals, Geognosis and Unitas Development Partners were each developed to address that problem from a different direction, and reinforce one another.
The physical critical-minerals supply that the energy transition depends on — mined non-energy minerals, held in the ground.
Proprietary Geo AI surveying technology, licensed exclusively to Unitas for its target markets, delivering a measurable productivity uplift that competitors do not have.
The sovereign mineral development platform that brings the resource and the technology together with national governments, as end-to-end resource development partner.
The Development Division and the Capital Markets Division share a single technology-driven stack, lowering unit cost and underwriting the Company's preferred-partner positioning with sovereign clients.
Leadership and track record
Public-sector, capital-markets and operating experience in one team — regulators and broadcasters, state banks and SOE presidents, institutional asset managers, real estate developers and a qualified barrister formerly in-house at Total.
Founder and Chairman, CIIC Group
Former Chairman of Ofcom, the BBC Board of Governors, ITV, Camelot and Ocado
Founder and Chairman, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.–China Relations
Former President of China Unicom and of China General Technology Group
Deputy President, China Development Bank Beijing Branch
Leading New York real estate developer; multi-generational property dynasty
Formerly Man Group plc
Prominent Hong Kong businessman; family has been involved in real estate development in Hong Kong and China
Successful track records across five connected industries
Every one of which is essential to the energy transition and to emerging-market development.
Why CIIC McFaddens deliver
The two divisions were purpose-built to solve a problem: developing and emerging markets are structurally under-served in resources, infrastructure and capital markets. CIIC McFaddens exists to expedite all three.
CIIC's four decades of Chinese industrial growth and SOE joint ventures, united with McFaddens' City of London legal and fund management heritage — a proven team without a true comparable, built to execute.
The two divisions exist for one purpose: to expedite resource, infrastructure and capital markets development in developing and emerging markets — the world's most under-served, highest-growth economies.
Decades-old relationships across China, the UK and EU, the US and Africa, reaching national governments, state-owned enterprises and development-finance institutions — and track records across five connected industries: technology, natural resources and mining, infrastructure, real estate and capital markets.
Unitas' first three sovereign partnerships are lined up to sign in the coming months.
Three synergistic strategies — the fund management and advisory business will scale by partnering and acquisition.
Entering these markets at the start of the growth cycle, not the end of it — with direct exposure to emerging-market urbanisation, resource and infrastructure demand, and the global realignment of capital.
Contact
CIIC McFaddens Holdings Limited
Hong Kong · Company No. 3057165