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In an e-mail from Spain between between executives of a company with one telling others about a conversation he has had with a banking contact, with some colloquial language:

Here there appear to be two possible meanings - the company has already invested heavily in a project, but was originally committed to investing more, so does it mean something like "riding on" or something like "available for"

"Que nosotros tenemos £[X million] pillados y somos los primeros interesados en terminar la obra y explotar el [business]"