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Meet the Company

Pinef is a principal-led international advisory and deal-structuring firm specializing in cross-border transactions across energy transition, infrastructure, water technology, industrial, and financial services. We operate as equity co-principals — not as intermediaries — with direct economic participation in the outcomes we help structure and close. Our transaction track record spans over $2 billion in closed deals across four continents, including infrastructure EPC+F, green hydrogen, O&G transition, hydropower PPPs, and water technology mandates.

When you engage Pinef, you engage a principal. Every significant mandate in Pinef’s track record has involved direct economic participation in the outcome — as deal principal, co-founder, equity partner, or co-investor. The result is a network built on closed transactions, not managed introductions, and a reputation for delivering outcomes rather than proposals.

Why us?

Pinef focuses on a defined set of industries where its principals have direct deal history: energy transition, oil and gas, water technology, mining, infrastructure, chemicals, and agribusiness. Geographic focus: Latin America — with particular depth in Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru — and commercial networks extending into Spain, Portugal, and Luso-African markets. All engagements are principal-led. No junior teams, no delegation.

Pinef’s commercial network is anchored across three operational bases — Montevideo, Miami, and Madrid — providing simultaneous access to Latin American deal flow, North American institutional capital, and European technology and procurement networks. Active client relationships span Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and Luso-African markets, supported by direct working relationships with leading multilateral development finance institutions active in infrastructure and environmental technology across the region.

25

Years of cross-border deal experience

2

Transaction value structured and closed

20

Countries with active commercial relationships

Our Services

Net Zero & ESG Transition Services

Forced by a multiplicity of global forces, a big chunk of investors and markets are progressively asking for effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and a path to net-zero carbon emissions away from greenwashing and deceitful marketing gimmicks. But a complex problem cannot always be replaced by simplicity. Sustainability analysis is as complex as it gets. It has to consider several inputs of social, political, regulatory and scientific variables that constantly bounce back at each other and change, from country to country. Our on-field experience and long-term partners are the key to help our clients identify the shortest path to get them closer to Net Zero. It spans from simple decarbonizing strategies for current operations such as the implementation of available technologies, to high-level work involving full B-Corp agendas and ESG action plans.

Strategy Consulting Services

Corporate Strategy:

As strategy consultants we are regularly brought in to design the development of strategic plans and implementation roadmaps. Common examples of strategic advisory projects include the assessment of strategic options for the business to expand, consolidate, or exit certain markets; supporting business planning processes; and developing full cycle agendas for the short, medium, and long term goals of our clients. It will all come down to what you need. Engage with us and we’ll surprise you with thoughtful leadership, innovative thinking, and a clear path towards implementation.

M&A Strategy:

We serve companies and investors by building frameworks to understand the economic drivers of mergers and acquisitions, and further down the line, we support our clients with due diligence work on potential targets. We can also play a role in M&A by supporting the establishment of alliances and joint ventures, managing divestitures, carve-outs, and facilitating Initial Public Offerings.

Strategic Partnerships:

Partnering strategies have surfaced to the core of the strategic work, not just enabling business ambitions, but more than ever representing the essence between the success and failures of businesses. This service area brings together elements from strategy, technology, and access to markets to accelerate growth and results through strategic partnerships.

Financial Services

Our clients’ success also relies on Pinef’s ability to source the right type of funding. We are seasoned professionals in arranging financing, be it in the form of simple corporate loans or investments, as well as more sophisticated approaches of capital raising solutions to enable our clients to fund their growth and strategic initiatives. We work with long-term partners in the financial industry able to provide innovative and powerful investment ideas to our clients and execute solutions that give our clients an edge to achieve their financial goals in the market place.

Meet our Team

A compact powerhouse of international dealmakers. Our team is a small, deliberately curated group of senior professionals united by a shared track record of structuring and closing complex cross-border transactions. Collectively fluent in more than a dozen languages and shaped by decades of living and working across multiple continents, we bring rare multicultural fluency to every engagement. Restless by nature, entrepreneurial by design — we have participated in countless ventures across emerging and developed markets alike, combining sharp analytical rigour with strategic creativity to help companies transition from start-up to scale-up. Our collective credentials include:

25+ years of expertise in international projects and rich intercultural exposure across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Proven track-record of structuring international deals for top-tier international companies.

Direct working history with multilateral development finance institutions, government agencies, and private sector counterparts across infrastructure, energy, and environmental technology.

Extensive international experience in financial advisory (IPO, SPAC, RTO), investment, turnaround, and exit strategies.
Academically elite across global business, finance, international politics, engineering, law, and technology — with advanced and executive degrees from the world’s most respected institutions, including Harvard Business School, MIT, Columbia University, and other top Ivy League and European institutions.
Principal profile

Juan Ramada — Managing Partner

25 years of cross-border deal experience across energy transition, infrastructure, water technology, industrial, and financial services. Career grounded in multilateral development finance, private banking, and corporate advisory across three continents before founding Pinef. Transaction experience spans hydropower PPPs, national infrastructure EPC+F, green hydrogen technology and capital syndication, O&G transition asset acquisitions, and industrial project finance — across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Native in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, and fluent in English, and Italian.

Academic credentials include executive education in global business at Harvard Business School, master and postgraduate studies in internationalization and mathematical finance at leading European Universities, and a BBA from PUCRS, Brazil.

Contact Information:

contact@pinefconsulting.com
+1 (305) 506 1598