Services
Three integrated practices — corporate finance advisory, private funds placement and sustainable infrastructure finance — under one roof, with senior-led execution on every mandate.
01 — Impact Investment Banking
We are storytellers. The first step is making the anatomy of your pitch perfect before we architect your fundraising strategy. We provide bespoke advice and tailored solutions for resource-efficient, low-carbon, energy-transition and climate-technology clients — crafting a compelling value proposition and finding the best investor and valuation for the company.
Our overriding objective is to secure the best investor and valuation for the client. Capital raising requires strategic vision and a dynamic approach — executed across five disciplined stages.
Advise on short- and long-term financial strategy, craft a compelling story for investors, and prepare marketing materials — teasers, management presentations, financial models, valuation analysis and the electronic data room.
Coordinate investor due diligence and manage the flow of information — answering questions and serving as facilitator so management stays free to run the business.
Determine whether valuation is fair to the client and, once a lead investor is secured, continue marketing to follow-on investors until the target raise is achieved.
Act as the client's representative on key contract terms, work to obtain the best price, and select the best possible partner for the company.
Manage all elements of the closing process and funding through to completion — and keep investor relationships intact for future rounds.
02 — Private Funds Placement
We assist general partners — venture capital, private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds — with the design, development and placement of innovative fund vehicles. We act as architects of capital-raising plans for strategies focused on impact investing, socially responsible investing (SRI), ethical investing and renewable-energy infrastructure.
We map each mandate to the right pool of capital, from venture through buyout and infrastructure debt, targeting both pure-play sustainability funds and diversified managers with sustainability experience.
Focus on quality entrepreneurs, large markets and emerging technologies; target 10x+ MOICs.
Focus on identifiable growth opportunities and proven technologies; target 3x–6x MOICs, or 25%+ IRRs.
Focus on defensible market positions, free-cash-flow and cost efficiencies; target 2x–3x MOICs, or 15%+ IRRs.
Focus on capital preservation, underlying assets and risk-adjusted yield; target 8%+ yield.
03 — Sustainable Infrastructure
We advise landowners, developers and independent power producers (IPPs) on how best to structure domestic and overseas projects for commercial bank debt, bilateral and multilateral institutional support, equity-fund investment and credit enhancement. Creating demand and momentum are the catalysts that accelerate the fundraising timeline in a market where competition for capital is at an all-time high.
Track Record
Our principals have advised utilities, IPPs, developers, investors and lenders across renewables, climate technology and the energy transition.
Includes transactions executed prior to SCM executives founding the firm.
Frequently Asked
Impact investment banking applies traditional investment-banking services — capital raising, M&A and strategic advisory — to companies, funds and projects that generate measurable, returns-driven impact. At Sustainable Capital Markets, that means an exclusive focus on the energy transition, climate technology and the next economy.
Yes. Impact investment banking is Sustainable Capital Markets' core practice, alongside private funds placement and sustainable infrastructure finance. We pair Wall Street discipline with an AI-enabled platform to deliver institutional-grade execution for resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate-technology clients.
The firm's impact investment banking practice is led by founder and Managing Partner Gary LaDrido, a 20+ year investment banker and former Vice President on Morgan Stanley's Clean Energy Team who has executed equity and equity-linked transactions in excess of $15 billion.
We advise across the energy transition, climate technology and the next economy — including clean power, energy storage, advanced nuclear and SMRs, grid and transmission, hydrogen, carbon capture, electric transportation, critical minerals, battery manufacturing and recycling, and the AI data-center power build-out.
Tell us about your company, fund or project. We'll outline how we can help — confidentially and without obligation.
