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In this episode, Pierre-Etienne Claveranne is joined by Green Giraffe Advisory’s market leader for bioenergy, Michael Ware, to dive into one of the fastest-growing…
The Energy Transition Brief: Biomethane market growth
In this episode, Pierre-Etienne Claveranne is joined by Green Giraffe Advisory’s market leader for bioenergy, Michael Ware, to dive into one of the fastest-growing sectors in the energy transition: biomethane.
The market is rapidly shifting from burning local biogas for electricity to injecting biomethane directly into the gas grid. What is driving this momentum, and where are the real investment opportunities across Europe?
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Are renewables finally a true large-cap asset class? In this live episode, we dive into how the scale of energy transition financing has transformed…
The Energy Transition Brief: The power of scale
Are renewables finally a true large-cap asset class? In this live episode, we dive into how the scale of energy transition financing has transformed over recent years—moving from isolated single assets to multi-billion-dollar portfolio structures, mega-fund equity deployments, and complex debt mandates.
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The Energy Transition Brief is your insider’s guide to the evolving clean energy landscape, brought to you by Green Giraffe Advisory. Each episode features…
The Energy Transition Brief: There is no single energy transition
The Energy Transition Brief is your insider’s guide to the evolving clean energy landscape, brought to you by Green Giraffe Advisory. Each episode features senior leaders and industry experts sharing sharp analysis, practical market perspectives, and clear commentary on the capital, strategy, and innovation driving the global energy transition.
In the debut episode of The Energy Transition Brief, Managing Director Pierre-Etienne Claveranne introduces Green Giraffe Advisory and shares his perspective on the current market landscape. He offers a clear breakdown of what we do, where the industry stands today, and what the energy transition actually means in practice.
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MEET THE TEAM
Our Advisors
Managing Director Paris
Pierre-Etienne Claveranne
Pierre-Etienne is a founding partner of Green Giraffe Advisory and an industry veteran with extensive experience successfully guiding clients and closing complex transactions across diverse markets and technologies.
Over the past 15 years, he has built a track record of transactions globally, specialising in large-scale non-recourse and holdco debt financings, and M&A (buy-side, sell-side, and corporate fundraising) spanning a diverse portfolio of energy transition projects and platforms. His transaction experience is structured across three key areas:
- Strategic capital raising and energy transition: Pierre-Etienne leads complex capital raises for high-growth platforms focused on next-generation energy infrastructure. This expertise includes leading the capital raise for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), structuring multiple corporate equity rounds (Series A/B/C/D) for platforms, and advising on bioenergy and synthetic fuels. He also handles portfolio financing for major European developers and utilities
Benchmark offshore wind M&A and debt: He has overseen numerous fundraising efforts for major European offshore wind projects, including non-recourse debt financing for developments exceeding 1 GW in capacity. Key mandates include advising on major asset sales for offshore wind projects, managing platform M&A, and executing debt restructuring mandates. Before founding Green Giraffe Advisory, Pierre-Etienne spent four years in Dexia’s project finance team, where he closed multiple transactions across public-private partnerships, transportation asset financing, and renewable energy sectors, including solar, offshore, and onshore wind farms.
Pierre-Etienne graduated from École Centrale de Lyon and holds an MSc in Finance from ESCP-EAP Business School in Paris.
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Managing Director Paris
Daniel Marshall
- 10 years with Barclays working in power, utilities and infrastructure
- 4 years living in Johannesburg, working across the Sub-Sahara Africa region
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Managing Director – Head of Green Giraffe Advisory Hamburg
Udo Schneider
Udo is a managing director of Green Giraffe Advisory and co-heads the Hamburg office
Since joining Green Giraffe in 2015, he has advised on multiple sell-side and buy-side equity transactions, as well as debt raises and provided commercial contracting advice for complex energy transition projects at different development stages and in different countries. He is also providing advice on tenders and renewable energy offtake solutions
Amongst others, he has led the debt raise for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project in Poland (ongoing) and debt finance for an innovative geothermal project, supported developers in offshore wind tenders and headed the M&A transactions for the offshore wind projects TWB II (200 MW, DE, 2017), Global Tech I (400 MW, DE, 2020), and Gode Wind I (347 MW, DE, 2018) as well as the development, structuring and sale of a Polish 350 MW offshore wind project to RWE. He also supervised the M&A transaction leading to the creation of Alterric (JV ENERCON & EWE) and is contributing to establishing a new green hydrogen economy
Before joining Green Giraffe, Udo worked in the infrastructure finance and renewables team of PwC for 14 years advising investors, developers and industry players on several onshore and offshore wind projects as well as infrastructure and public private partnership projects globally
Udo holds a bachelor of business in finance from the University of Technology, Sydney, and graduated from Hamburg University with a degree in economics
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- We won the Inspiratia Energy Transition Award 2024 for Best Financial Adviser – Renewables! Details
- Green Giraffe and Pekao Investment Banking advise on EUR 4.4 bn non-recourse financing of the Baltic Power offshore wind project Details
- Offshore wind – Auction designs and why PPAs are only second best Details
Managing Director – Head of Green Giraffe Advisory London
Clément Weber
Wind Power List 2026
Clément is a founding partner of Green Giraffe Advisory. Based in London, where he established the firm’s office in 2011, he brings extensive expertise across the offshore and onshore wind sectors, advising on both equity and debt financing. Between 2017 and 2019, he led the Paris office before returning to London to support the firm’s continued growth.
He is a recognised thought leader in renewable energy and a frequent speaker at industry events, offering strategic perspectives on bankability, market dynamics, and commercial positioning for clients across the energy transition.
His transaction experience includes:
- Pioneering floating offshore wind and platform development: Clément specialises in structuring and financing floating offshore wind platforms and development funding across Europe, APAC, and the US. This includes successfully closing six development funding transactions for major floating projects (up to 1,000 MW) and leading Series B equity raises and tender mandates for pioneering technology developers
- M&A and strategic mandates: He has led multiple sell-side M&A mandates for offshore wind developers and oversaw the sale of a significant onshore wind portfolio. He also provides high-level counsel, having advised major utilities on strategy and intelligence and developed Green Giraffe Advisory’s offtake advisory capabilities, procuring renewable electricity across Europe for a major international corporation
- Benchmark project financing: His track record includes structuring complex debt deals and refinancing mandates for major European offshore wind assets. This expertise spans non-recourse debt and mezzanine financing for benchmark projects up to 367 MW (Walney) and 309 MW (Rentel)
Before founding Green Giraffe Advisory, Clément worked in project finance at Dexia in Paris (2008 – 2010), preceded by a tenure with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Beijing (2006-2007). He is a graduate of École des Ponts ParisTech and holds an MSc in Project Finance from Université Paris X.
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Managing Director Utrecht
Barbara Zuiderwijk
Tamarindo Women in Power list 2024
Barbara is a founder of Green Giraffe Advisory. She has a strong track record in the contracting and financing of onshore and (offshore) wind farms in Northern Europe
Barbara supported the development, contracting, and (re)financing of Northwind (216 MW, Belgium, 2012), Gemini (600 MW, the Netherlands, 2014), Veja Mate (402 MW, Germany, 2015), Norther (370 MW, Belgium, 2016 and 2020), Windpark Fryslân (383 MW, The Netherlands, 2019), Baltic II & Co (1.5 GW, Poland, 2019), Windpark Zeewolde (322 MW, The Netherlands, 2020) and Deutsche Bucht (252 MW, Germany, 2021). She has been supporting consortia participating in several European offshore wind tenders as well as having been involved in other technologies such as the ground-mounted solar farm Duurkenakker (64 MWp, The Netherlands, 2020)
She is currently involved in raising financing for a portfolio of projects that combine on-site renewable energy generation with electric vehicle charging infrastructure and battery storage
Before founding Green Giraffe, Barbara worked at the project developer Econcern, and as investment banking trainee at ABN AMRO
Barbara is recognised in the top 100 most influential female business leaders in the 2024 Women in Power list
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Managing Director – Head of Germany Hamburg
Kai Leverköhne
Kai is a Managing Director at Green Giraffe Advisory and heads the Hamburg office. He brings almost 20 years of experience in the energy transition and renewable energy finance.
Since joining Green Giraffe in 2019, Kai has led numerous landmark transactions in the offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, EV charging and battery storage sectors. Kai’s most recent achievement includes supervising the major corporate refinancing of EUR 435 M for EEW Group.
He has led several financings in the offshore wind space for Global Tech I, Baltic Power or Veja Mate, whilst also being active on the buy- and sell-side for offshore and onshore wind farms, solar PV platforms, EV charging, grid infrastructure, and BESS assets.
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Kai spent 11 years at Deutsche Bank’s infrastructure and energy team (part of 18 years total at the bank), where he structured Europe’s largest solar PV project bond (EUR 404 M, Spain, 2016).
Kai has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg and studied at Aarhus Business School.
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Senior Director – Head of Africa Cape Town
Frederico Sanches
Frederico has focused on complex and cutting-edge transactions. He has led transactions in tender support as well as debt and equity raising globally with a recent focus on emerging markets particularly in South Africa and the broader African continent
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Senior Director – Head of Australia Sydney
Marcus Dixson
Marcus heads the Australian office. He has experience leading debt and equity transactions across Australia and the UK. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he spent 6 years at IDCM, a debt boutique in London. Prior to that he was at EY
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Senior Director – Head of Southern Europe Madrid
Raúl Santos Chozas
Raúl leads Green Giraffe Advisory’s commercial operations in Southern Europe. He brings over 15 years of experience advising clients on energy transition transactions, with a strong focus on debt structuring, M&A and financing. Before joining Green Giraffe, Raúl spent 3 years at Astris Finance, and previously held roles at BBVA and ACS.
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- Spain’s sleeping giant: Biogas, bureaucracy, and that Dutch blending obligation Details
- Navigating Spain’s dynamic energy market: Unlocking value and opportunities for investors and developers Details
- Raúl Santos Chozas joins Green Giraffe Advisory’s Madrid office to drive green ambitions forward Details
Senior Director – Head of Japan Tokyo
Jun Kasamatsu笠松 純
Jun is in charge of leading and managing the Tokyo office. With over 20 years of experience in renewables and investment banking, he has contributed to the development and realisation of more than 50 utility-scale renewable energy projects totalling more than 1 GW of installed capacity in Japan
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Senior Director – Head of UK and Ireland London
Yusuf Thanawala
Yusuf is a Country Manager UK & Ireland at Green Giraffe Advisory, responsible for leading and expanding the firm’s UK franchise. He brings more than 20 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance, including over a decade focused on the energy transition, renewable energy and power infrastructure sectors.
Yusuf has advised developers, infrastructure investors, private equity sponsors and strategic corporates on a broad range of transactions across solar PV, battery storage, onshore and offshore wind, EV charging, smart metering, biogas, district energy and grid infrastructure.
His experience spans IPP platform sales, portfolio disposals, minority and majority stake investments, growth capital raises, acquisitions and strategic partnerships across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Yusuf was a Director at Akereos Capital, where he played a leading role in building the firm’s M&A advisory franchise and advising on numerous landmark energy transition transactions across Europe.
Previously, Yusuf spent almost a decade at HSBC in the Power, Utilities and Renewables investment banking team in London and Dubai. He also worked at Credit Suisse in the European Energy team, advising clients on M&A, IPOs, equity raisings and acquisition financings across Europe, the Middle East and emerging markets.
Yusuf holds an MBA in Finance and a Master of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai.
Senior Director – Head of Singapore Singapore
William Jackson
Will is a Director and Head of Singapore office. He has worked on transactions and tenders across four continents, with a particular focus on offshore wind. Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Will worked at the oil & gas team of Continental AG, a multinational engineering firm
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Director Paris
Amélie de Magondeaux
Amélie has managed several complex infrastructure transactions in the energy transition sector, ranging from M&A (incl. equity raise) to debt financing and refinancing, as well as a public renewable energy tender. Prior to GGA, she worked at Natixis commodities structured finance team in Paris and New York
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Senior Director Utrecht
Jakob Bergvelt
Jakob Bergvelt is a Senior Director at Green Giraffe Advisory, with 14 years of expertise in renewable energy finance. He has been a driving force behind the execution of landmark offshore wind, onshore wind, and solar PV transactions across Europe.
Specialising in complex debt-raising and investment strategy, Jakob has guided clients through large-scale financial closings and competitive tender processes. His expertise spans the full project lifecycle, including advising consortia on bid structuring in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Poland.
Most recently, Jakob led the financing for the 1.14 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland – one of the world’s largest – successfully reaching financial close for Northland Power and ORLEN. His extensive track record also includes milestone projects such as Gemini, HKZ 1&2, Norther, Zeewolde.
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Senior Director London
Michael Ware
Michael has been leading several deals, in particular in waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, solar and battery energy storage. Michael has a high profile in the renewable energy industry due to his work in the media and his role as part-time writer for the Spectator magazine
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Latest insights
- The Energy Transition Brief: Biomethane market growth Details
- The great European biomethane certificate gold rush: why bits of paper are becoming worth more than molecules Details
- Poles apart – why is the German biomethane sector so much bigger than the Polish one, and is this about to change? Details
Director Paris
Olivier Pichery
- 2 years at BNP Paribas in Paris and New York working in energy and transportation finance
- Involved in the structuring of several reserve-based lending, mining and aircraft financing transactions in EMEA and the US
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Director Paris
Emilie Quintin
Emilie has managed several complex infrastructure transactions in the energy transition sector, ranging from equity financing (including M&A) to debt financing and refinancing, as well as a public renewable energy tender
Prior to GGA, she worked at Engie in the former Energy Services branch where she was involved in several M&A deals in Europe and Australia
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Senior Director Utrecht
Frank Janse
Frank focusses on complex leading-edge projects. He advised the winning Oya hybrid project in a technology neutral tender. As market leader for hydrogen & e-fuels he has worked on several power-to-X projects including the development of the 1 GW Nujio’Qonik onshore wind to ammonia project located in Canada. Besides, he is advising on the optimal plant sizing by combining a technical and financial model
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Director Utrecht
Tim de Pater
Tim worked on various solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, storage, EV-charging and circular economy projects across multiple countries. He looked at cross-technology optimisations and the energy system as a whole with a strong background in modelling and quantitative analysis
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Director Cape Town
Inès Pinot de Villechenon
Inès heads the Cape Town office. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Inès worked at BNP Paribas in the Project Finance Latin America team. Based in New York, she was involved in structuring and arranging large-scale energy and infrastructure projects
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Director Utrecht
Christoph Reich
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Director Madrid
Ramona Kammerer
Ramona brings expertise across a broad spectrum of transactions, including early-stage equity fundraisings, corporate and asset-level M&A on both the buy-side and sell-side, competitive tender processes, and debt advisory mandates such as greenfield financings and refinancings. Her work is primarily focused on Europe
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Senior Manager Tokyo
Sachiko Kaku郭 沙千子
Sachiko is leading debt and equity transactions across APAC region. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, she spent 10 years at Development Bank of Japan and 2 years at ING Bank HQ, experiencing energy and infrastructure financing in Japan, US and Europe
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Director Paris
Karim Nejmi
Karim is a Director in the London office, previously working for Investec within the Power and Infrastructure Finance team and for EY within the Power & Utilities M&A team
He has therefore extensive M&A and debt experience having advised developers, large utilities and infrastructure funds, across a wide range of technologies
Director Utrecht
Tobias van Baarsen
Tobias co-heads the Dutch office. Since joining Tobias led numerous offshore wind projects such as Lely, WPF and several tenders. Further, he has worked on debt and M&A transactions in solar, biogas and sustainable heating
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Director Marseille
Arthur Dussillol
Arthur has experience in leading greenfield financings, refinancings and M&A transactions in Europe, South Africa and Asia. He has run multiple offshore wind competitive tenders in Europe. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he spent 3 years with Eolfi, a French onshore wind and PV developer, as a financial analyst
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Director Hamburg
Ann-Kathrin Weber
Ann-Kathrin is a project finance professional with extensive expertise in originating, structuring, and executing deals across the energy sector. Over the past year alone, she has successfully closed seven renewable energy transactions.
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, she spent 14 years at KfW IPEX-Bank. Her background includes managing portfolios of multi-billion-euro energy assets, alongside handling complex restructuring assignments. She combines strong analytical rigour and intercultural competence to deliver sustainable, long-term financial solutions.
Director Hamburg
Felix Schmitt
Offshore wind | Onshore wind | Solar PV | BESS & grid
M&A: sell-side and buy-side | Debt advisory | Tender support
Felix is a project manager in the Hamburg office. He has more than 12 years of track record in renewable energy M&A, finance and structuring
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he worked in various commercial and management roles at UKA, Prime Capital and DZ Bank
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Director Hamburg
Katharina Wieszner
M&A: buy-side | Debt advisory | Tender support
Katharina has extensive experience structuring and arranging renewable energy projects from a lender’s perspective with strong expertise in offshore wind M&A transactions. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, she was an Associate Director in the Investments team at Reventus Power (CPP Investments). Prior to that, she held the role of Vice President at KfW IPEX-Bank, working both in NYC and Frankfurt
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Senior Manager Paris
Maxime Vauchier
Maxime has been involved in several large-scale debt financings and equity transactions in the offshore wind and onshore wind sectors across Europe, Africa, and Asia
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Maxime worked at Crédit Agricole CIB in the infrastructure project finance team
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Director Utrecht
Bram Lof
Bram has broad experience across various renewable energy technologies (both electrons and molecules) worldwide. He has managed equity and debt raises, tender support, development support and is experienced in business case optimisations, bid writing, risk management and Monte Carlo analyses
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Senior Manager Paris
Damien Jacquin
5 years with Société Générale, based in London, where he worked on infrastructure project financing and acquisition financing transactions across Europe and Africa
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Senior Manager Hamburg
Svantje Schade
Svantje has been involved in advising on several debt and equity transactions across the energy and infrastructure spectrum in various stages of development. The last project she led, a debt raise for an innovative geothermal technology project won multiple awards and she was recognized with an individual award as Rising Star Europe from IJ Global in 2024
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Senior Manager Hamburg
Annika Berghaeuser
Annika has been involved in advising on several debt and equity transactions across the energy and infrastructure spectrum in various stages of development and in different markets. Lately she has also been leading venture capital and value-add infrastructure transactions
Senior Manager Sydney
Kristina Grigoreva
Kristina joined Green Giraffe recently, having just led the financing of a large project in Australia, where she has extensive experience, particularly in relation to onshore wind. Kristina has more than 10 years of experience working for investors and developers in the renewables sector; GE EFS, Allianz Capital Partners and Cubico Sustainable Investments
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Senior Manager Tokyo
Shinya Kitagawa北川 慎也
M&A: sell-side and buy-side | Debt advisory | Tender support
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Shinya worked for Marubeni Offshore Wind Development Corporation for 2+ years. As a finance manager, he was involved in project financing for Japan’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm. He also led a finance team for offshore wind round 2 tender in Japan
Senior Manager Utrecht
Kana Fukushima福島 香南
+4 years with one of the main Japanese civil engineering & architecture firms, managing financial control of infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia
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Senior Manager London
Leigh Barrow
Leigh previously worked at SunPower developing custom financial models, and leading development, deal structuring, and contract negotiations for custom US solar projects. Prior to that, Leigh worked at Monitor Deloitte and at a clean energy developer in South Africa
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Manager Marseille
Emilien Grimm
Emilien is a manager at Green Giraffe Advisory with over eight years of experience in M&A, debt advisory and tender support across wind (onshore/offshore), solar PV, bioenergy, storage, hydrogen & e-fuels. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory in 2019, Emilien worked in ENGIE’s Acquisition, Investment & Financial Advisory team, and holds an MSc in Energy Economics from Paris-Dauphine University
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Manager Marseille
Mathilde Sapède
Manager Hamburg
Ann-Kristin Torkler
Ann-Kristin worked on the debt financing, strategic tender advice and M&A of several wind energy projects, both onshore and offshore, as well as hydrogen projects across Germany, Poland and other countries
Ann-Kristin was also involved in the 4.4 bn debt raise for the award winning 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea
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Manager Paris
Yuntian Gao
Before Green Giraffe Advisory, worked at CGN Europe Energy in the investment and M&A team for 5 years
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Manager London
Albert Tarter
Albert has advised on a wide array of deal-shapes (tender, debt, M&A) and is native in four languages. Most notably, he worked on debt financing of the first-of-its-kind Geothermal Eavor Loop project. Before joining, he spent a combined 3 years at GE and Siemens, gaining a valuable technical knowledge of components and supply chain
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Manager Madrid
Santiago Alfonso Galeano
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Santiago worked at Acacia Capital in Mexico City where he was responsible for leading the research team’s due diligence processes of the fund’s public and private equity portfolios
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Manager Singapore
Darren Lee
Darren has experience in M&A transactions across Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he was an associate in Dragonfly for three years working on strategic consulting, risk advisory, investment analysis and modelling projects over multiple sectors
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Manager Cape Town
Uthman Samodien
Uthman has had experience across strategy and intelligence missions, tender support, M&A transactions, and debt and equity raises since joining Green Giraffe Advisory in 2021. This builds on 4+ years prior experience in private credit, private equity, venture capital and real estate investing. He also has 5+ years of engineering management experience in the FMCG industry
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Manager Hamburg
Stephen Mettler
Stephen co-leads the Integrated Energy Systems and Power-to-X practices. He covers technical modeling, new technology bankability, and integration of renewable electricity and process industries. These include energy commodities such as hydrogen and its derivatives (methanol, ammonia, SAF, plastics), as well as integration of new solutions, like demand response and other grid-supportive practices by heavy power users
Prior to GGA, Stephen worked on the structured finance team at Bloom Energy, a United States electrolyser and fuel cell OEM and developer
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Manager Tokyo
Clément Gilbertクレモン ジルベール
Clément is based in Tokyo. He has 7 years of experience in debt and equity transactions across multiple technologies. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Clément worked 4 years in Japan as a junior banker in the project finance department of Credit Agricole CIB Tokyo and as corporate M&A analyst for Veolia Japan
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Manager Madrid
Giuseppe Scaglione
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- Private: (Undisclosed) Energy Transition Fund
- Acacia – Bloom – FR – BESS (capital raise) Details
- Acacia – Bloom II (debt advisory) Details
- African solar portfolio Details
- Adele (sell-side) Details
- Akuo Energy (portfolio financing) Details
- Aker Offshore Wind & Hexicon JV Details
- Airies and Sorbie Details
- Alizé (sell-side) Details
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Manager Sydney
Mihael Gibson
Mihael is a manager at Green Giraffe Advisory with over nine years of experience in M&A, development and project finance, having closed more than AUD 3 billion of renewables and infrastructure transactions in Australia and New Zealand. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Mihael worked at Aula Energy, Macquarie’s renewables platform, and InfraRed Capital Partners
Manager Utrecht
Daan van Rijn
Daan is a manager at Green Giraffe Advisory with over five years of experience in corporate finance and the energy sector, advising on transactions across wind, solar PV, biogas, BESS, district heating and grid infrastructure. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Daan worked at KPMG Corporate Finance & Valuations, and holds an MSc in Finance from Utrecht University
Associate Paris
Camille Chamussy
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Camille worked at Scatec ASA, focusing on deals in the MENAWA region. She then joined a French private equity fund specialised in renewable energy, where she worked on M&A transactions within the EU. Since joining, she worked on several corporate sell-side transactions in Germany and offshore wind refinancing in Taiwan
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Associate Singapore
Shawn Lee
Shawn is an Associate at Green Giraffe Advisory in the Singapore office.
He spent 2+ years in Deutsche Bank’s Project Finance team focusing on Renewables and Infrastructure, where he played a role in the financing of various projects such as a 500MW standalone BESS in Australia, a standalone 250MW utility solar farm in Australia, and a 100+MW portfolio of C&I solar assets in South Korea. He also spent about 1 year in a datacentre investment platform as an Investment Analyst. Shawn graduated with a double degree in Business Management and Economics from the Singapore Management University
Associate Hamburg
Iuliia Iskhakova
Prior to joining GGA, Iuliia worked at the structured finance team in Pacifico Energy Partners, a renewable energy developer based in Munich, active in solar, onshore wind and BESS technologies in Europe
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Associate Cape Town
Jason Halstead
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Jason worked as a research analyst in global equities. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in investment management from Stellenbosch University, a post-graduate honours degree in financial analysis from the University of Cape Town and has passed all three levels of the CFA exam series
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Associate Madrid
Victor Carbasse
Victor has worked on offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and BESS projects across Europe and the APAC region. Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he was an Investment Associate at BlueFloat Energy and previously held a role as an M&A Analyst at SSE Renewables. He also completed an internship at Ardian in Madrid
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Associate Tokyo
Shin Hsu徐 行
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Shin worked at Orsted’s headquarters in Denmark as financial analyst, responsible for financial modelling and business case analysis of execution-stage offshore wind projects in Taiwan and the US. He also has experience in market development and regulatory analysis in Japan
Associate Tokyo
Chinami Yamagami山上 千波
Chinami has been focused on projects in Japan, with experience supporting sectors including offshore wind, standalone BESS and solar PV. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Chinami spent three years as a manager at SoftBank Group Corp., where she worked on private equity investments in the renewable energy sector
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Associate Madrid
Pablo Montoya Cabezas
Pablo has over 5 years of experience advising and financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
Prior to joining Green Giraffe, he spent nearly three years at Santander’s Structured Finance team in Madrid and London, where he closed more than EUR 13 billion debt transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors. He also held roles at Alantra and SSE
Associate London
Giacomo Coriani
Giacomo has over 4 years of experience in M&A, with a focus on energy and infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining Green Giraffe, Giacomo worked at KPMG Deal Advisory and AXIA Ventures, advising corporate and financial investors on buy-side and sell-side transactions across renewable energy, infrastructure and industrials
Associate London
Thomas Martin
Thomas is an associate at Green Giraffe Advisory with four years of experience in financing and M&A transactions across solar PV, BESS and wind energy, including multi-GW portfolios across Europe. He holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London
Analyst Paris
Thomas Pellerin
Before his current role, Thomas spent one year at KPMG Corporate Finance in Paris, where he advised on several infrastructure transactions, including an airport, a hydropower plant, and a water treatment facility. Prior to that, he worked for 18 months at EDF Renewables as an offshore wind business developer
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- Private: (Undisclosed) Energy Transition Fund
- Acacia – Bloom – FR – BESS (capital raise) Details
- Acacia – Bloom II (debt advisory) Details
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Analyst Paris
Marielle Zapfack
Onshore wind | Solar PV
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Marielle worked at RES France as a transaction analyst intern where she was involved in M&A transactions in onshore wind, solar and BESS sectors in France. Prior to RES, she completed an apprenticeship at Société Générale as a Risk Credit Analyst on the financial institutions sector
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Analyst London
Max Roper
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Max was an Associate working with Green Bonds, analysing impact and allocation reports published by corporate, governmental, and supranational issuers, supporting portfolio managers in evaluating and standardising operational metrics from the underlying projects. Max holds a BSc in Economics
Analyst Utrecht
Aagje Franse
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Aagje worked as an ESG & Sustainability Consultant, advising investors and companies on sustainability strategy and decarbonisation, and supporting a solar mounting system developer on ESG integration. She holds a BSc in Econometrics, a BA in Philosophy, and an MSc (with honours) in Quantitative Finance
Analyst Utrecht
Sam van Rijnsoever
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Sam gained experience as financial advisor for cooperative renewable energy projects
Sam holds a BSc in economics and governance from the Wageningen University and a MSc in economics, specializing in environmental economics from University of Amsterdam
Analyst Singapore
Wesley Tan
Wesley has experience working across investment banking, private equity and strategy consulting. Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he previously interned with Boston Consulting Group in the Singapore office as well as several boutique firms in the region
Analyst Sydney
Will Scribner
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Will worked as a Consultant in Aurecon’s Infrastructure Advisory team, working on buy and sell side transactions as a technical advisor in the power, data centre and water sectors. Some notable previous works includes buy and sell side support for data centre portfolios across the APAC region
Credentials – Relevant projects
Analyst Singapore
Denise Koh
Denise is an analyst at Green Giraffe Advisory with experience in debt advisory and sell-side M&A across offshore wind, solar PV and BESS in Asia-Pacific. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Denise worked at a Singapore government project facilitation office and interned at RWE and the IFC, and holds an MSc in Management from the University of Mannheim
Analyst Tokyo
Kaiya Hirota弘田 凱雅
Kaiya has experience working on BESS and solar PV projects in Japan and Canada. Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, she was an Investment Analyst at Northland Power’s Toronto headquarters and previously interned with Macquarie Capital’s Infrastructure & Energy Group in Tokyo
Credentials – Relevant projects
Analyst Hamburg
Alex Dickson-Axt
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Alex spent 6+ years in sustainable finance at BlackRock and an ESG technology scale-up, delivering strategic advisory, project management and modelling expertise to some of the largest global financial institutions. Alex recently gained an MBA from the University of Cambridge before moving into energy transition finance
Analyst Madrid
Elena Rovira
Elena is an analyst at Green Giraffe Advisory who has rapidly built transaction experience across debt financing and sell-side M&A in solar PV, onshore wind and BESS. She holds a BBA from ICADE and an MSc in M&A and Private Equity from ISBIF Corporate Finance School in Madrid
Analyst Hamburg
Frederic Hoch
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Frederic worked in Investment Banking at Jefferies, where he focused on public takeovers led by financial sponsors. In addition, he was involved in a number of traditional private M&A transactions, supporting clients across different stages of the deal process. Through this work, he gained broad exposure to transaction execution, complex stakeholder environments, and fast‑paced, collaborative deal teams
Analyst London
Trevor Dean
Trevor is an analyst at Green Giraffe Advisory with experience in sell-side M&A and financial modelling across offshore wind, solar PV and BESS. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Trevor completed RWE’s Finance Graduate programme, and holds BBAs in Finance and International Business from UW–Madison, having also studied at LSE
Analyst Hamburg
Austin Waldmann
Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Austin worked in Investment and Valuation at CVE Green Finance, an independent power producer (IPP) with a €1.2 billion portfolio of operational assets. He focused on Group Valuation, Corporate Funding and Project Finance across solar, hydrogen, BESS and biogas projects. Through this role, he gained exposure to corporate financing, M&A transactions and project finance debt structures in the renewable energy sector, with experience spanning the United States, Chile, Spain and France. He developed expertise in financial modelling, valuation and investment analysis
Analyst Paris
Hugo Fournier
Hugo is an analyst at Green Giraffe Advisory with experience in M&A and debt advisory across offshore wind, onshore wind and solar PV. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Hugo spent over one and a half years in the M&A team at Mexens (formerly Technique Solaire), and holds a Master in Management and an MSc in Sustainable Finance from the EDHEC Business School Grande École Programme, as well as an MSc from Mines Paris – PSL
Analyst Madrid
Juan Daniel Alfaro González
Juan Daniel is an analyst at Green Giraffe Advisory with over three years of experience in financial modelling and investment analysis across solar PV, BESS and bioenergy. Before joining Green Giraffe Advisory, he worked on infrastructure transactions in Latin America and holds a Master’s in Finance from Bocconi University
Analyst Utrecht
Daan van Dijk
Prior to joining Green Giraffe Advisory, Daan gained experience across several private markets investment firms, most notably at an impact fund, where he focused on sustainable investments across e-Mobility, BESS & grid infrastructure, Recycling, and other energy transition sectors in the Netherlands. He holds a BSc in Econometrics and an MSc in Quantitative Finance
Compensation and benefits and HR projects manager Paris
Marine Gravereau
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