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The company
A small team, over thirty years of craft, and the decision to invest our own capital alongside everyone else’s.
Who we are
Lares Energy S.r.l.
Incorporated in Milan in 2011, Lares Energy is an investment holding company operating on its own account and on behalf of its private investors.
The firm is made up of professionals with more than thirty years of experience in financial investment, energy and financial services, where they have held senior positions in investment banks, industrial companies, insurance broking and advisory firms.
Our in-house skills range from leasing to project finance, from project engineering to risk management. That is an unusual combination: normally whoever structures the financing has never seen the construction site, and whoever knows the site never sits at the table with the bank. Here they are the same people.
Mission
To carry out investment projects in real assets and infrastructure, giving priority to the sectors where our capabilities make a concrete difference — today above all payments infrastructure, energy and energy efficiency.
We have set ourselves the ambitious task of becoming a partner of reference for those who want to invest in these sectors, and of pursuing sound, durable results over time for those who invest with us.
How we operate
We rely on a carefully selected network of financial institutions, law firms and engineering companies operating in multiple countries. The network widens or narrows around the transaction: we carry no fixed structure that needs justifying.
Lares Energy invests its own capital in the projects it develops. That capability lets us act quickly and efficiently; only afterwards, and only where it makes sense, do we approach financial institutions or other partners to complete the structure.
Capabilities
Doing this well takes different and complementary skills.
Every transaction has at least four dimensions: financial, technical, legal and operational. Neglecting one of them is the most common way to lose money on an otherwise sound project.
- Finance. Leasing, project finance, debt structuring, relationships with lenders.
- Engineering. Project engineering, technology assessment, process analysis.
- Risk. Risk management, compliance, due diligence, counterparty analysis.
- Management. Governance and operation of the asset for the life of the project.
Values
Three things we do not compromise on.
Alignment
We do not present a transaction we would not put our own capital into. It is the first question we ask ourselves.
Substance
We invest in things that exist and that we know how to value: a plant, a platform, a contract.
Continuity
Whoever analyses the project is the same person answering for it five years later. We do not delegate memory.
Let’s meet.
An introductory conversation is the quickest way to find out whether there is common ground.