Can Private Equity Accelerate the Green Transition?

Transaction Advisory Services partner, Mike Collier, sat with the Financial Times to discuss the growing role that private equity is playing in energy transition.

“Private equity teams are experts at spotting and executing investments in complex environments such as energy, said Mike Collier, partner at Texas-based financial advisory firm Weaver. They have a higher risk appetite than public companies and other investors, which may be slower to embrace new technologies and trends.

Collier said private equity’s continued funding of the transition will depend on financial returns generated by its first wave of investments, which have exploded over the past five years. Using data from PitchBook, he estimates there were less than $500mn private equity-backed energy transition deals in the US in 2018. By 2023 the figure had jumped to more than $25.9bn.”

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