Purpose
We provide flexible financing to facilitate the development, de-risking, and scaling of high-integrity carbon projects and offer long-term access to their generated carbon credits to both corporate and governments.
Team
We have spent our careers providing financing for decarbonization and natural resource projects globally. We have expertise in structuring creative project and trade finance, and supporting projects through development into operation and expansion. We have young families, making us passionate about the environment they will inherit.
STEPHEN GILL
STEPHEN GILL
Over the last 15 years, Stephen has overseen all decarbonization-related investments at a leading private equity firm, Pala Investments, including building one of the world’s largest independent cobalt suppliers, structuring the first dedicated project debt financings into the lithium sector, and developing the firm’s commodity trading and carbon market investment strategies. Previously, Stephen was a senior environmental consultant at a global engineering firm, Amec, advising on regulatory and permitting matters for industrial clients, and asset investment for strategics and financial investors in some of the largest industrial and energy assets in the world. Stephen holds a MBA, a MSc in Marine Science and Natural Resource Economics, and a BSc in Marine Biology.
ERICA VERTEFEUILLE
ERICA VERTEFEUILLE
Over the last 9 years, Erica has led multiple energy transition-related and niche commodity private equity and debt investments at a leading private equity firm, Pala Investments, and was instrumental in the origination, design and implementation of its carbon markets investment strategy. Erica is passionate about finding innovative ways to bridge long-term, positive investment outcomes with sustainability goals, and leveraging her expertise in commodity markets and project finance to structure alignment for project stakeholders. Prior, Erica advised clients on transactions involving a broad range of natural resources assets at a global investment bank. Erica holds a BSc in Geological Engineering.
Operations
We finance and support high-quality, high-integrity carbon projects. We apply creative solutions that meet the diverse needs of project stakeholders such as investing through production-linked project financing or offering price-floor protection via an offtake.
We are a trusted supplier of carbon credits from an active portfolio of high-impact nature-based carbon removal projects that generate offsets at scale.
We support and monitor carbon market developments, with a focus on the cross-section of carbon credit projects into global compliance carbon markets as well as high-integrity use of carbon credits in the voluntary market.
