LONDON (Reuters) -The U.S. fund overseeing U.S. President Donald Trump’s critical minerals deal with Ukraine said on Friday it had appointed advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal to help it identify and size up potential opportunities.

Ukraine and the U.S. in April signed a deal, heavily promoted by Trump, that gave the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals projects in exchange for investment.

The U.S. government’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) was then charged with overseeing a newly created U.S.–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. It injected $75 million into the fund to begin financing critical minerals, energy, and infrastructure projects.

Conor Coleman, DFC’s Head of Investments and Chief of Staff, said on Friday it had appointed financial a

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