WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Galway Sustainable Capital, Inc. (“GSC”) announced today a new, broad-based funding partnership with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”). Under the terms of the deal, GSC secured a minority equity investment and closed a new, multi-year, multi-tranche credit facility with Oaktree. GSC is private equity backed by lead investor Cordillera Investment Partners. GSC was founded in 2020 by three experienced ESG professionals who collectively bring over 50 years of expertise in structured finance, sustainable infrastructure, and yield-oriented investments. GSC provides flexible, full stack debt and equity capital solutions to support companies, developers and sponsors that are accelerating the transition to environmental and social sustainability. GSC focuses on critical infrastructure across the United States including distributed renewable energy, circular economy, carbon remediation, energy efficiency and green buildings, sustainable agriculture, land and water as well as opportunities that provide social benefits. GSC is focused on modular, distributed and localized projects with typical individual investments of $50 million and under. GSC has active platform investments in areas such as greenhouses, energy efficient data centers, green building solutions, distributed power and storage, waste recycling and carbon capture and sequestration.
The goal of the GSC enterprise is to advance the cause of businesses that have strong sustainability values with a focus on environment, climate change, and social impacts. “We are pleased to expand our GSC partnership to include Oaktree to help us scale our business and broaden our reach. Oaktree’s team has an outstanding track record of building successful financial institutions. With their infusion of capital and alignment around our ESG goals we look forward to growing this platform to its full potential while accelerating the transition to greater resilience and sustainability,” said Jennifer von Bismarck, CEO and co-founder of Galway Sustainable Capital.
“Our partnership is a direct result of GSC’s thoughtful approach to sustainability and disciplined process for originating and underwriting high quality investments,” said Brian Laibow, Managing Director and Co-head of North America for the Opportunities strategy at Oaktree.
With the addition of the Oaktree investment, GSC is well positioned to improve capital access in distributed infrastructure projects nationwide. “Access to properly aligned early deployment capital continues to be a major challenge for emerging climatech and ESG companies,” said GSC President and co-founder Trent Yang. “We have structured our business to be aligned with our partners both from a capital and mission perspective. With this added funding capacity, GSC can provide solutions to an expanded number of qualified companies, developers, and projects nationwide.”
“Oaktree’s investment further confirms the depth of demand for GSC’s capabilities and the growing attractiveness of the ESG sector from the institutional investor perspective,” said Rob Bolandian, Partner and Global Head of Investment Banking at Cambridge Wilkinson, who served as financial advisor to GSC on the transaction.
“We are pleased to have completed this financing for GSC, an industry leader in providing distributed infrastructure capital for select ESG projects,” said Chris Heller, Managing Partner at Cordillera Capital. “We look forward to supporting the company in its plans for ongoing success.”
About Galway Sustainable Capital
Galway Sustainable Capital (“GSC”) is a private equity backed specialty finance company that invests in companies that accelerate the transition to greater resilience and sustainability. The Company’s investment themes include renewable and distributed energy; efficiency and green buildings, circular economy solutions, sustainable ag land and water, carbon remediation; and socially responsible credit. GSC is a long term buy and hold investor that partners with experienced entrepreneurs and developers to grow profitable sustainable businesses. For more information, please visit www.galwaysustainable.com.
About Oaktree
Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $153 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2021. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities. The firm has over 1,000 employees and offices in 19 cities worldwide. For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com.
About Cordillera
Cordillera Investment Partners is an investment management firm focused on investing in niche, non-correlated assets. These investments are generally in sectors that are not well understood, not overcapitalized, and not correlated with traditional assets. Cordillera manages capital for endowments, foundations, family offices, wealth advisors, and other institutional investors. For more information please visit www.cordillera-ip.com.
About Cambridge Wilkinson
Cambridge Wilkinson is a leading global investment bank with the speed, connections and confidence to get deals done. With a focus on middle market companies, we arrange debt and equity capital raises from $25 million to $5 billion and advise on mergers and acquisitions. Cambridge brings deep experience working with specialty finance institutions and real estate entities, as well as businesses spanning a variety of other industries. We offer unique access to a broad network capital sources including large family offices, credit funds, banks, non-bank credit groups, insurance companies, private equity, sovereigns and endowments. For more information please visit www.cambridgewilkinson.com.
