Adding value by supporting the integration of ESG and sustainability considerations into investment decision making, raising capital, and into financial product design, operations and asset ownership.
Integrate ESG and Sustainability into the Root of Your Strategy
Access to capital is increasingly dependent on demonstrating sound management of ESG and sustainability considerations. Likewise, when making investments, valuations need to consider the related risks, and the future competitive advantages that the most sustainable businesses will leverage. Anthesis supports these processes, together with the banks, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds seeking to offer finance products and investments that are either categorised as Sustainable or Impact or simply demonstrate those considerations are actively managed within their operations.
We leverage our technical capabilities and commercial understanding to offer investment due diligence and ESG and sustainability advisory support to those wishing to raise funds or offer finance products. As an industry leading strategic partner assist with the design and implementation of ESG and Responsible Investment Strategies, value enhancement during the investment lifecycle, regulatory support and reporting.
Finance & Transactions Services
Transform your financial strategies with our Finance, Investment & Due Diligence solutions. From navigating Mergers & Acquisitions to crafting sustainable finance products and facilitating responsible investments, our services empower organisations to thrive financially while prioritising environmental and social responsibility.
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Investment Due Diligence
Anthesis supports investors and corporates to identify risks and opportunities on acquisition, to support integration, and then create and protect value on divestment. This can include guidance on whether an investment can be defensibly defined as an “Impact” or “Sustainable” investment”, for example in line with the EU Taxonomy.
We support mergers & acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure investments, and debt provision. Our due diligence services include ESG & EHS, Integrity, Workplace Culture, Commercial, Technical, Human Rights & Supply Chain, and Climate Change.
Credit & Debt
We help lenders and borrowers seeking to offer or raise funds through ESG or sustainability linked loans and bonds. We assist with baselining the borrowers current ESG performance, KPI (Sustainable Performance Targets or SPTs) selection, and annual performance verification, in line with LMA, LSTA and APLMA and related guidance.
For lenders we also support the overarching ESG requirements of their funds, undertaking pre-lending due diligence, data collection & analysis, including carbon metrics, and reporting.
Fundraising & IPO Readiness
Anthesis assists investors and corporate businesses seeking to raise capital through direct private investment or IPO, to prepare to meet institutional investor expectations around ESG and sustainable investment criteria. We support clients to put in place robust ESG strategies and data to evidence performance improvement. We also assist in creating defensible narratives around the sustainable credentials of a business’ operations and services, showing eligibility and alignment with the EU Taxonomy and other frameworks where applicable.
Responsible Investment Strategies
We help Financial Institutions to review, develop and implement ESG and Responsible Investment strategies that integrate ESG and sustainable investment criteria into their operations, services, products, and investment activities. We assist clients to identify their material ESG aspects, regulatory obligations and relevant voluntary frameworks, and determine a level of ambition, leveraging peer analysis and stakeholder engagement to define the optimum approach. We then assist with implementation, building policies and systems, providing education and training, and where required secondment support.
Types of FI
Banks
Private Equity
Investment Companies
Regulation, Data & Reporting
Anthesis supports clients to build the underlying policies and systems, and make disclosures, to achieve compliance with regulations such as the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) and the Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Regulations (CSRD) and meet voluntary commitments to frameworks such as the TCFD and TNFD. We also support engagement with ESG rankers and raters such as MSCI and S&P and prepare bespoke Sustainability or ESG reports and investor communications. At the heart of the process is collating and interpreting robust data, for which we can deploy our Mero software platform.
We work with investors and asset managers to enhance the ESG performance of their assets. We provide ESG education programs and help onboard investments into portfolios, implementing the client’s standard ESG requirements and identifying and supporting the implementation of broader, asset specific ESG improvement programs. Within this, or as separate programs, we help clients make and manage their investments consistent with a Net Zero carbon transition, and manage key topics including circularity, nature, human rights & supply chain, and DEI. Throughout, we help collate robust data to evidence the improvement, meeting stakeholder and regulatory requirements, and support value creation at exit.
