What Opus Corporate Finance LLP does

Opus Corporate Finance LLP is an independent corporate finance advisory firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in London, providing M&A and growth capital advisory to infrastructure, services, and technology clients across the energy transition and sustainable economy. The firm operates as an FCA-regulated limited liability partnership under a partner-led execution model, with its senior team drawing on backgrounds at premier global investment banks including Goldman Sachs, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Macquarie, and Nomura.

Opus delivers four core service lines: sell-side M&A (exit planning, sell-side processes, discrete sales), buy-side M&A (proactive target searches, valuation, transaction structuring, deal funding), growth capital advisory (equity, intermediate capital, debt, recapitalisations), and strategic and financial advisory (valuations, fairness opinions, joint venture structuring, board advisory). The firm is vertically organised across seven sub-sectors within the energy transition theme (renewable energy, storage and grid, eMobility, smart cities, industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, environment and agriculture) plus a dedicated global Chemicals & Ingredients team. Notable mandates include Cinven's $2.6bn acquisition of Envu, Bain and Cinven's CHF 4.2bn acquisition of Arxada, €1bn+ in BESS infrastructure transactions since 2019, the £100m Eelpower/NESF joint venture, and the EUR 125m Swiss Life investment in Planet Farms.

The firm generates revenue through negotiated advisory fees on a transaction-by-transaction basis, with no proprietary technology platform or productised offering. Client engagement is exclusively direct and relationship-driven, targeting financial sponsors (infrastructure funds, private equity, venture capital, family offices), large corporates, and entrepreneur or family-owned businesses primarily in Europe, with the majority of transactions cross-border involving investors from Europe, North America and Asia. Marketing is driven by partner networks, thought leadership content, and the firm's pioneering track record since 2006 in energy transition transactions rather than digital channels or programmatic distribution.

Name

Opus Corporate Finance LLP

Legal name

Opus Corporate Finance LLP

Website

https://opuscf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Opus Corporate Finance LLP is a London-based independent corporate finance advisor founded in 2006, providing partner-led M&A and growth capital advisory to energy transition, sustainable economy, and chemicals clients across Europe with global cross-border execution.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Finance Advisory

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

M&A Advisory (Buy-side/Sell-side) (BPAHADAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Finance & Capital Advisory (BPAHADAB), Corporate Finance Advisory (Strategic Finance, Capital Structure & Recaps) (FSAEAGAE)

Keywords

• Corporate finance advisory
• M&A advisory
• Growth capital advisory
• Energy transition advisory
• Sustainable economy advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. M&A Advisory Fees: Opus generates revenue through advisory fees for M&A transactions including sell-side and buy-side mandates. Services include exit planning, sell-side processes, discrete sales, shareholder advisory, proactive target searches, valuation, transaction structuring, and deal funding.
2. Capital Solutions Advisory: Growth capital advisory including equity raises, intermediate capital, debt arrangements, and recapitalisations for infrastructure, services and technology clients.
3. Strategic Advisory: Independent strategic and financial advice beyond transactions including valuations, fairness opinions, joint venture structuring, and board advisory.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Opus Corporate Finance LLP is a partner-led corporate finance advisor providing M&A advisory (sell-side and buy-side), growth capital advisory (equity, intermediate capital, debt, recapitalisations), and strategic & financial advisory (valuations, fairness opinions, joint ventures, board advisory). The firm focuses exclusively on the energy transition and sustainable economy, with sub-sector coverage in renewable energy, storage and grid, eMobility, smart cities, industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, environment and agriculture, plus a global Chemicals & Ingredients team.

Product overview

Opus Corporate Finance LLP is a corporate finance advisory firm offering four core service lines: Sell-side M&A (exit planning, sell-side processes, discrete sales), Buy-side M&A (target searches, valuation, transaction structuring, deal funding), Growth Capital Advisory (equity, intermediate capital, debt, recapitalisations), and Strategic & Financial Advisory (valuations, fairness opinions, joint ventures, board advisory). The firm operates across seven sub-sectors of the energy transition and sustainable economy: renewable energy, storage and grid, eMobility, smart cities, industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, and environment and agriculture. Additionally, Opus has a dedicated Chemicals & Ingredients advisory team providing specialist financial advisory globally. The offering is structured as a unified advisory service model rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sell-side M&A Advisory service for shareholders seeking to exit or sell their business, including exit planning, sell-side processes, discrete sales, and shareholder advisory. Targeted at entrepreneur, family, and trust-owned businesses and corporate clients in the energy transition and sustainable economy sectors.
• Buy-side M&A Advisory service helping corporates and investors acquire businesses with confidence, including proactive target searches, valuation, transaction structuring, and deal funding. Targeted at infrastructure funds, private equity, and large corporates in the energy transition and sustainable economy sectors.
• Growth Capital Advisory Advisory service supporting high-growth businesses to secure capital through equity, intermediate capital, debt, and recapitalisations. Targeted at infrastructure, services, and technology clients in the energy transition and sustainable economy sectors.
• Strategic & Financial Advisory Independent advisory services beyond transactions including valuations, fairness opinions, joint ventures, and board advisory. Targeted at corporates, financial sponsors, and entrepreneur-owned businesses.
• Chemicals & Ingredients Advisory Specialist financial advisory team operating globally with deep sector expertise across specialty chemicals, commodity chemicals, crop protection, agri nutrition, ingredients, chemicals distribution, and circular chemistry. Advises corporates, family-owned companies, and private equity clients on sell-sides, buy-sides, IPOs, and leveraged financing in the chemicals sector.

Quantifiable outcome

• Advised Carbon Clean Solutions on $30m Series B round
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Planet Farms HoldingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorld-leading CEA technology company in Italy with end-to-end automated and climate agnostic facilities. Contributed operational 20,000m2 vertical farm in Lombardy plus existing customer relationships and project pipeline to joint venture with Swiss Life.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Lazard: Global financial advisory and asset management firm with a dedicated energy and infrastructure group. Larger incumbent offering overlapping M&A and capital advisory services across Opus's core sub-sectors.
• Rothschild & Co: Global financial advisory group with a long-standing European mid-market and energy/infrastructure practice. Comparable to Opus on cross-border M&A advisory and to Opus's chemicals & ingredients team specifically.
• PJT Partners: Global advisory firm with energy and power advisory practices covering renewables, storage and infrastructure. Comparable to Opus in the energy transition M&A franchise but operating at significantly greater scale.
• Evercore: Global independent investment bank with strong energy and renewable infrastructure advisory practice. Direct overlap with Opus's energy transition franchise at a much larger scale.

Direct peers

• Greenhill & Co: Global independent M&A advisory firm. Direct peer at the boutique-independent-advisor tier; Richard Morse, Opus partner, previously led the energy and infrastructure team at Greenhill, evidencing direct competitive and talent overlap.
• Apricum: Boutique advisory firm specialized in clean energy and decarbonisation. Direct competitor to Opus in energy transition M&A and capital raising; notably, Opus's most recent partner hire (Charles Lesser, July 2025) was previously UK CEO and global head of Transactions at Apricum.
• Augusta & Co: Independent advisory firm focused on the energy transition and clean infrastructure. Closely comparable in size, sector specialism and cross-border European deal profile to Opus's energy transition practice.
• Moelis & Company: Global independent investment bank with a strong M&A and capital solutions franchise. Direct comparable to Opus on the independent advisory model, though at materially larger scale and broader sector coverage.
• Inspired Energy plc: UK-listed energy and sustainability advisory group. Comparable to Opus as a UK-based specialist advisor to corporates and investors in renewable energy, energy efficiency and decarbonisation transactions.

Others

• FTI Consulting: Global advisory firm with corporate finance and energy transition consulting capabilities. Adjacent to Opus through deal advisory and energy sector expertise, though operating with a consulting-led business model rather than a pure independent-advisor model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles19 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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