Financial services

Investor pressure for financial returns from sustainability is accelerating. Limited partners, lenders and regulators now expect sustainability to be costed, delivered and evidenced in the same terms as any other investment. Firms that can show the numbers raise capital and exit on better terms.

General Partners (GPs) face fragmented data, inconsistent Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices across portfolio companies and rising regulatory complexity. Banks, insurers and private debt managers see the same problem across their books. Without an investment-grade approach, firms risk value leakage in the hold and harder questions at exit.

We help Private Equity (PE) and Private Debt managers put a cost, a return and a delivery route on decarbonisation and ESG, from investment decision through the hold to exit.

Achieve ROI

An 18.3 per cent average return on investment across the sustainability projects we cost and deliver.

Attract higher valuation premiums

Decarbonisation returns you can evidence to Limited Partners (LPs) at raise and at exit.

Reduce risk exposure

Screen energy, carbon and regulatory exposure before it reaches the price.

Fee-linked delivery

Through an open, pre-vetted supplier network, with fees partly linked to the results delivered.

Stay compliant

With evolving regulation, and know what each change costs in money and administrative hours.

Build credibility with LPs

With LPs. Our average client relationship is eight years.

Exit ready

Metered savings and delivery history that stand up in exit diligence.

Our services

Regenerative strategy

Regenerative strategy is for when the business model itself has to change. We design portfolio-level strategies built for Private Equity ownership, addressing where a company’s earnings come from in ten years.

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Sustainable transition

Sustainable transition is the costing and delivery work. We put CapEx, OpEx and payback on decarbonisation, then deliver with portfolio companies until they can run the programme themselves.

Here are some examples of our services:

Find out more about our sustainable transition service

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Energy Check-up a no-commitment portfolio pre-screen using readily available information, showing which companies justify costed work.

Find out more about the Energy check-up service
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Rapid costed decarbonisation CapEx, OpEx and payback per measure, in diligence, on one company or across a supply chain.

Find out more about the Rapid costed decarbonisation service
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Implementation partnership delivery through an open, pre-vetted supplier network, with fees partly linked to results.

Find out more about our Implementation partnership service

ESG Excellence

ESG Excellence covers targets, reporting and assurance. We co-authored the SBTi Private Equity Guidance and the PE Component of the Net Zero Investment Framework, and we set credible targets under any framework, SBTi validated or otherwise, each with an implementation roadmap, leaving you with:

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The right targets for your firm with its financial and practical implications for portfolio companies costed first.

Find out more about our FINZ targets service
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Independent assurance and pre-assurance of your disclosures, as an AA1000AS licensed provider, delivered separately from our advisory work.

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Our software

MyVerco monitors delivered projects, so the value reported to investors is measured.

If the tool you need does not exist, we build it in your environment, owned outright. Its method and data come from delivering the projects ourselves.

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