This article was originally published on Mergermarket.
A&M Managing Director, Jay Moody, is featured in the Mergermarket article "North America Energy Advisory Viewer: M&A Fees Yet to Reflect Uptick in Dealmaking." Despite financial investors actively seeking monetization of portfolio companies and increased public-to-public M&A, the reflected recovery in investment banking fees in the North America energy M&A market has not yet materialized. Additionally, as market conditions stabilize, the energy sector is expected to see increased dealmaking and M&A volume, although it remains below pre-pandemic levels.
As the world shifts from fossil fuels, “the traditional oil-and-gas investment base is a little bit smaller, mostly driven by a lot of the [limited partners] in the large energy and infrastructure funds pushing ESG mandates, which is limiting the amount of investments in carbon-heavy portfolio companies,” said Jay Moody.
A&M's recent Q2 2023 Pulse Survey Report shows that global infrastructure investors are currently more concerned about the environment for raising funds and debt than at any other time in the last three years.
“If a company has really great [ESG] policies but does not have them very well documented, that is a classic example of where just doing some ESG advisory work can raise their ESG scores and make the company a little more friendly to an ESG investor,” Moody said.
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