Portland Advisers acts for borrowers and lenders on the world’s most complex project financings - oil & gas, conventional and renewable energy, energy transition, infrastructure, natural resources and digital infrastructure. Senior-led. Independent. Advised on transactions with an aggregate value of over $60 billion since 2008.
A senior-led firm advising sponsors, funds, banks, ECAs and governments across the globe.
Deep specialism in the asset classes that underpin economies. We don’t do everything — we do the complex, capital-intensive financings we were built for.
All sectorsAdvisory across the full spectrum of energy transition assets including lithium, rare earth metals, BESS and hydrogen.
Financial advisory for complex social, transport, sports and utilities infrastructure across Europe and beyond.
Conventional power and upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas advisory.
Project finance advisory for base, rare earth and precious metals across all major mining geographies.
Financing for fixed, wireless, cable and satellite communications infrastructure and data centres.
Advisory services to Export Credit Agencies and Development Banks.
Independent, senior-led advice — shaped by twenty-plus years of running the room from both sides. That perspective is the product.
From bankability strategy and lender selection through term-sheet negotiation to financial close, always with our clients’ commercial objectives at the centre.
Screening and structuring funding opportunities for banks, funds, ECAs and development finance institutions - with the rigour they expect.
“The Portland difference is our senior advisors. We are all former banking and finance executives with decades of hands-on PF experience, and we provide informed, current and tailored solutions for our clients.”
London-headquartered, with advisors operating across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific and Central Asia. The financings below give a flavour of the structuring work that takes us there.
A handful of the financings we’re proudest of — selected because the structuring complexity, not the headline value, is what makes them worth reading.
All case studies
Portland acted as ECA Advisor to Bpifrance, SACE and EIFO on the c. US$1.1bn limited-recourse senior debt financing for the Vulcan integrated renewable energy and Zero Carbon Lithium™ Project in Germany.
Portland acted as Co-Financial Advisor to Minerals Development Oman on a US$550m greenfield copper and gold mining project in northern Oman.
Portland acted as Financial Advisor to SERV on the US$460m debt financing for the 588MW UMPL CCGT power project in Bangladesh.
Portland Advisers is proud to support Vulcan Energy , a pioneer in sustainable lithium and renewable energy, in advancing Europe’s energy transition. Vulcan has successfully reached Financial Close for its…
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Portland Advisers undertaking financial advisory role for the Vulcan Energy, Zero Carbon Lithium Project Portland Advisers is pleased to be engaged to provide independent financial advisory services to Export Credit…
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Portland’s Ian Cogswell returns to the Proximo Annual Project Finance Trends Review Increasing cost of debt, the importance of energy security and the decarbonisation of energy networks have all been…
ReadEvery mandate begins with a conversation with a senior advisor. Tell us about the financing you’re contemplating - sponsors, lenders and public counterparties all welcome.
