RCF Private Equity
Private Equity for the Energy Transition
Private equity for the energy transition
Overview
The RCF Private Equity strategy seeks to achieve significant returns from investments in the mining industry. It is founded on the belief that the world is undergoing a paradigm shift in the demand for metals and minerals. The RCF Private Equity strategy seeks a leading role in advancing projects to cash flow through a focus on late-stage assets in strong mining jurisdictions.
Relied on globally for mine finance
Investment Highlights
Unlocking value through sourcing and execution
- Identify global macroeconomic factors driving supply/demand imbalances, evaluate technical quality, characteristics, and accessibility, and diversify by commodity, geography, and investment style
- Pursue bi-lateral, off-market opportunities via proprietary deal sourcing through global network of offices and deep industry relationships
- Active investor focused on pre‐feasibility (growth) to operating stage (value) assets in good mining jurisdictions close to cash flow
Disciplined process featuring commercial creativity
- Use stochastic modelling to evaluate financial and technical risks in detail to help establish a defined investment thesis that enables creative deal structuring with a pre-determined exit strategy
- Growth stage assets focused on technical de-risking, exceptional management teams, and arranging creative financing solutions in the short- and medium-term
- Value stage assets focused on deal structuring, cost reductions, operational improvements, synergies and extracting value from commercially complex situations
Backed by the pioneer in private equity mining
- RCF pioneered the private equity mining sector in 1998 and has invested $4.9bn across 225 deals and returned $4.7bn in total realizations and over 140+ exits
- Anchored by an in-house, multi-disciplinary platform of global specialists including geologists, metallurgists, mining engineers & operators, ESG specialists, legal, and data scientists
- Extensive experience in critical and strategic minerals with 25+ mines brought into production and 30+ commodities invested in across 50 different countries
The critical experience to deliver
Meet the Team
Martin Valdes
Partner, Head of Private Equity
Brett Beatty
Partner, MD Australia, Investment Team Leader
Jasper Bertisen
Consultant, Commercial
Ross Bhappu
Partner, Senior Strategic Advisor
Robin Bienenstock
Consultant, Commercial
Catalina Bilbao
Investment Manager
Francesco Bressi
Principal
Paulina Cantin
Executive Assistant
Alex Colebourn
Associate
Ian Colterjohn
Principal
Juan Diego Garcia
Analyst
Philip du Toit
Principal
Anna Gallagher
Associate
Dani Jeyes
Investment Manager
Hayleigh Kerr
Office Assistant
Mariana Mastandrea
Executive Assistant
Jacqueline Murray
Partner, Head of Fund
Fraser Perry
Senior Associate
Raj Prasad
Investment Manager
Brian Scott
Investment Manager
Sunny Shah
Investment Team Leader
Spencer Snow
Analyst
Fabiano Tavares
Investment Manager
Francisca Yoma
Analyst
Foremost providers of mine finance
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