M&A, DEBT ADVISORY, STRATEGIC ADVISORY AND EQUITY MARKETS
Augusta provides a full-suite of financial advisory services to its clients. Augusta works with developers, IPPs, utilities, industrial companies and investment funds. We help clients trade portfolio businesses, merge, raise new capital, structure partnerships, JVs and framework agreements.
In addition, we provide a full range of transaction and financial advisory services.
We have worked extensively on each of the phases of the renewable energy project lifecycle, including development, construction and operation. Building or unlocking value at each of these phases requires very different expertise. For example, demonstrating the value creation of a management team, optimising the contracting structures of projects that are ready-to-build, or arguing for the life extension or re-powering potential of a mature operating portfolio.
DEBT ADVISORY
We are active across the full capital spectrum with access to 150+ lenders and a deep understanding of where the most competitive terms are available
Augusta’s involvement ranges from advice on, or the adaptation of, the optimal debt structure in an M&A process to a full-scope debt raising process as a stand-alone mandate.
We advise on structured debt products across the capital and corporate structure from traditional project finance to non-dilutive growth capital designed to provide parent companies with flexible capital. We provide funding options that maximise value for existing shareholders while safeguarding for future liquidity needs.
We balance offtake, financing structure and equity to boost value for sponsors, and source the full range of capital from bank lenders, through dedicated debt funds to mezzanine and structured finance vehicles.
POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
As part of our capital raising or M&A mandates, Augusta has sourced and negotiated PPAs with a broad range of offtakers, from utilities through market-makers to corporates seeking green branding opportunities and industrials looking for long-term power contracts.
These services are most relevant in ex-subsidy markets such as the UK or markets where there is a substantial merchant component to a project’s power offtake that needs to be contracted in order to secure the best terms from equity and debt.
We have been leading the development of the industry away from subsidies and into the corporate power purchase market for a number of years and have worked on projects with offtakers including Google, Facebook, Norsk Hydro, Alcoa, Neste and others.
SPECIALISED CONSULTANCY WORK ON SPECIFIC TRANSACTIONS
Augusta provides specialised consultancy services to its clients primarily geared to specific equity or debt financing issues, the assessment of commercial market strengths and the potential for growth through mergers and acquisitions or other corporate finance measures. In most cases such a consultancy mandate is the pre-cursor to a strategic sale or acquisition mandate at a later date.
Our consultancy activities complement and extend the detailed technical and management consultancy services provided by well-established consultancy groups, with many of whom we cooperate closely to provide a complete picture of a market and its plausible points of entry.
We work with large corporates to optimise their energy usage and procurement strategy to ensure they hit their net zero targets including limiting Scope 3 Emissions.