Civitas Capital Group's Mine Ekim Examines How Cross-Border Capital Closes Project Funding Gaps
Mine Ekim, Managing Director, Legal & Head of Investor Experience at Civitas Capital Group, has authored an article in the July 2026 issue of the International In-house Counsel Journal on the role of cross-border investor capital in closing project funding gaps.
The article opens on a familiar moment: land assembled, senior lender committed, equity largely spoken for – and a gap that still stands between a groundbreaking and a stalled site. With traditional lenders tightening underwriting and domestic institutional equity turning more selective, Mine argues that capital crossing borders has become a decisive tranche of project finance.
She also argues that the era of light-touch oversight is over. Legislative reform, cross-border securities enforcement, successive AML regimes, and intensifying source-of-funds scrutiny have made international fundraising a discipline demanding real legal rigor – and have moved in-house counsel from downstream reviewer of offering documents to architect of fundraising strategy.
