EIC Partners AG provides various services to its clients in the following areas:

Private Infrastructure Asset Management

EIC Partners manages infrastructure solutions and customized accounts for institutional and private clients. For its clients, EIC Partners AG makes direct investments in greenfield and brownfield opportunities in the international energy sector with a focus on the electricity sector.

Clients appoint EIC Partners as a full outsourcing partner or choose to remain involved in different aspects of the investment and portfolio management process. Mandates include investing in and managing companies in the electricity sector as part of a tailor-made investment structure or as a single investment.

Transaction support for direct investments and co-investments

EIC Partners supports companies, institutional clients and private clients in the execution of transactions in the electricity sector. EIC Partners' service range includes:

Strategic advice on energy related matters to corporations and financial institutions

EIC Partners has a highly personal and innovative approach to help market participants solve complex problems, discover new opportunities or identify risks related to energy topics.  EIC Partners provides independent advice based on technical and economic analysis.

Through its long-term experience in the energy sector, EIC Partners has sophisticated opinions on all energy related commodities, in-depth knowledge of regulatory trends and strong expertise in understanding technological trends.

EIC Partners views are well documented and extensively discussed with industry experts at the occasion of its semi-annual investment committee meeting.

Industrial approach and network

EIC Partners’ team members have over 20 years of experience in energy and infrastructure investing and investment banking. The team’s deep experience offers important advantages in key business development areas. For example, in its investment origination capability, that benefits of EIC’s extensive global industry sector relationships.

In addition, EIC’s industry experience and skill sets include rigorous due diligence, operational evaluations and independent, comprehensive risk reviews. These disciplines are important factors in differentiating EIC from other energy infrastructure investors.

Blackstone and PQ Energy

EIC Partners and Blackstone setup PQ Energy as a platform for investment in power generation in Europe. EIC Partner’s role is setting up the structure, management of the structure, deal origination, evaluation of brownfield assets, development of greenfield asset and reporting. PQ Energy secured greenfield power plant sites with a potential investment of EUR 900 Millions over the next 5 years. 

Actis

Actis is a global emerging market private equity firm with approx. EUR 7 billion under management. EIC Partners advised one of the platform companies of an Actis infrastructure fund that invested in electricity companies in Africa and Latam.

EIC Electricity

EIC Partners successfully restructured and managed the SWX listed investment company EIC Electricity. EIC Electricity invested in listed and non-listed companies in the electricity sector. EIC Partners split the investment company into a Swiss fund for listed equities and sold the remaining infrastructure assets. EIC Partners was the exclusive asset manager of the company.

Sector focus as key differentiation

EIC Partners advises and manages investments in both greenfield and brownfield projects widening its range of investment opportunities while offering a higher return potential. While the team has an international background and has completed transactions on all continents, the geographical focus of its activities is Western Europe. The focus of the activities is centered around investments in the electricity sector.

The following electricity sub-sectors are key investment areas: