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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