Structuring impact-focused funds that attract and deploy capital at scale.
The Challenge
Designing an impact-focused fund that is both credible to investors and deployable at scale is structurally complex. Blended finance vehicles must balance competing priorities across capital types – aligning concessional and commercial investors around shared risk, return, and impact expectations. Without the right architecture, governance, and pipeline, even well-capitalised funds fail to deploy effectively.
We advise on the design, structuring, and positioning of impact-focused investment funds and financing vehicles across environmental and social sectors. We support fund sponsors, governments, and development finance institutions with fund architecture, capital stack design, investor identification, and alignment with impact measurement frameworks. Drawing on financial structuring expertise and deep sector knowledge, we help clients build credible, investable vehicles that mobilise capital towards high-impact outcomes.
Supporting the full lifecycle of fund development – from investment thesis creation and financing model design, through capital stack optimisation across concessional, commercial, and philanthropic tranches, KPI and governance structure development, and fund manager identification and evaluation.
Identifying the right mix of capital providers – including development finance institutions, institutional investors, and grant funders – and helping our clients position their funds to meet the necessary risk, return, and impact requirements.
Helping to build the pipeline of investable projects needed to deploy fund capital effectively, and establishing the impact measurement and reporting frameworks that underpin investor confidence and long-term fund credibility.
Multi-tranche structures combining concessional, philanthropic, and commercial capital to de-risk investment in sectors and geographies that would not attract purely commercial finance on standalone terms.
Dedicated funds with specific environmental or development attributes – including nature funds, climate resilience facilities, drought funds, and outcome- and results-based financing structures.
Funds structured around a defined geography – such as a city or region – that direct capital systematically across a portfolio of projects rather than financing discrete assets in isolation.
Equity fund structures designed to support the scale-up of circular and impact ventures, where capital and returns are reinvested within the same system.
Structured facilities that finance discrete high-impact assets – including renewable energy, conservation, and blue economy projects – through bespoke financing arrangements tailored to project-level risk and revenue profiles.