Find the risk before it prices the deal.
ESDD (environmental and social due diligence) aligned to the IFC Performance Standards and the Equator Principles — findings a deal team and a lender can both rely on, delivered on a deal timeline, not an academic one.
Environmental and social findings now move price, terms and timing.
Lenders condition financing on E&S compliance, investors carry portfolio obligations to their LPs, and liabilities that surface after close belong to the buyer. Three pressures land at once.
Financing is conditional.
Equator-aligned lenders and DFIs test projects against the IFC Performance Standards before money moves. An unassessed E&S risk is a condition precedent waiting to be written.
Liabilities transfer at close.
Legacy contamination, land and resettlement issues, labour and community exposure — what diligence does not surface, the buyer inherits. Price protection starts with knowing.
Obligations outlive signing.
E&S conditions run for the life of the asset. Without a management system to carry them, findings become annual surprises instead of a closed action plan.
From data room to a findings report both sides of the table can use.
We scope the diligence to the transaction — from a Desktop ESDD (document and data-room review) to a Site-Based ESDD with field verification, escalating to HSESDD (adding health and safety) where the evidence demands it — and hand over an action plan the asset can actually run.
Scope to the risk
Transaction screened and categorised against the IFC Performance Standards — so the diligence fits the deal, not a template.
Desktop, then on-site
A Desktop ESDD screens the data room and public record; a Site-Based ESDD verifies it in the field — every finding evidenced, mapped to the standard it offends, and rated.
Report for decisions
Findings written for a deal team and a credit committee: what it is, what it costs to fix, what it means for terms.
Close the actions
An E&S action plan and management system (HSESMS) so conditions get closed on schedule — for the life of the asset.
Every finding is evidenced, mapped to its standard, and priced for the decision it informs.
The diligence is mastered against the frameworks lenders and investors actually apply:
A typical engagement runs from screening to a findings report and action plan inside the transaction window, with scope escalated only where the evidence demands it.
A deal is only as clean as the asset behind it.
Diligence that stays in the data room misses the risk. The standards are tested where the asset, its resources and its people actually are.
Built for the tables where E&S risk gets decided.
Investors & PE/VC
Entry diligence, portfolio obligations and exit readiness — findings that hold up in the deal and to your LPs.
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Equator-aligned screening and IFC PS assessment for credit decisions — written for a credit committee.
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Implementing the IFC Performance Standards on a live project — we build the E&S management system (HSESMS), the action plan (ESAP) and the monitoring that satisfies lender conditions, for the life of the asset.
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Tell us the transaction, the asset and the window. A specialist scopes the diligence to fit — a real person, not a form receipt.