Strategy
Market entry, expansion, consolidation and exit. Strategic plans and the roadmaps to implement them. Assessment of technology, partners and timing, informed by geopolitics and by the way capital actually moves across borders.
The firm
Principals, not intermediaries.
Every mandate is carried by the people who sign it, and in most of them the firm holds a position in the outcome, as co-investor, equity partner or board member.
Heliodor does not run managed introductions. It runs transactions.
The practice is the second generation of a consulting tradition that has done the same work for decades: reading markets, reading governments, bringing the right counterparties to the table and taking them to signature. Heliodor is where that tradition goes next.
2Generations
25Years
4Continents
12Languages
Where the firm works
The industries no economy can do without, and all of them have to get cleaner.
Cement, clinker and construction materials, mining, oil and gas, energy, water and the infrastructure that connects them. Heliodor knows these sectors from the inside, at plant level and at board level, and it knows what a transition costs the companies that have to carry it out.
What has changed is the toolset. Industrial technology, automation and artificial intelligence now decide how a plant competes, how a utility manages water, and how fast an energy asset can move toward cleaner production without breaking its balance sheet. Industry has raised the standard of what quality means, and with it the value of equipment built to last. Heliodor's work sits at that intersection, taking the operational knowledge of heavy industry and applying the technologies that make the next version of it possible.
Geographically, the firm has deep roots in the Americas and Europe, long working relationships in China, Hong Kong and the Gulf, and direct working history with the multilateral development banks active in infrastructure and environmental technology across those regions.
Sectors
- Infrastructure
- Energy and energy transition
- Water
- Cement, clinker and construction materials
- Mining
- Oil and gas
- Industrial technology and AI
What Heliodor does
Four things, done end to end.
Transactions
Origination and structuring of partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions and project financings. Consortium formation for engineering, financing and technology. Negotiation at owner, board and government level.
Capital
Sourcing and arranging the financing a project needs, from corporate lending to development-bank facilities and strategic equity. Where a mandate leads to the public markets, Heliodor knows what it takes to get there and which institutions to engage, and brings them in.
Technology and transition
Identifying, qualifying and integrating the industrial technologies, from process automation to AI, that let an established operation reduce its footprint and raise its margin at the same time. Heliodor's contribution is the assessment: the maturity of a technology, its performance at scale and in the conditions the client operates, and the right moment to adopt it. That judgment is formed with the industry counterparts the firm has worked alongside for decades.
Selected mandates
Who the firm has worked with.
- National oil and gas companies of Latin America and EuropeDownstream and transition projects, biofuels, asset acquisitions.
- Top-tier Chinese conglomerates and engineering groupsRailway, cement and industrial projects in South America, as engineering and financing partners.
- Gulf sovereign programmes and their delegations, in QatarThe World Cup stadium programme, rail, financial-centre and facility-management mandates, with European venue operators and rail groups brought in as partners.
- European industrial groups and technology housesPrecast and cement plant technology, water treatment, green hydrogen, plasma, and the financing of their entry into Latin America.
- European and North American investors in the transition of oil and gas assetsEquity partnerships for producing and recovering assets, and for the environmental remediation of their waste streams.
- Multilateral development banks of the AmericasProject-finance structures for infrastructure, industry and environmental technology.
- Hong Kong and international financial groupsCapital-markets, investment and exit mandates for corporate and private clients.
- Government agencies in the Americas, at municipal, state and national levelInvestment promotion, trade missions and strategic partnerships.
The team
A small, deliberately chosen group of senior professionals, working across two generations of international deal-making.
Decades of living and working on four continents. The firm works in six languages, five of them natively. Advanced and executive degrees from Harvard Business School, MIT, Columbia and leading European and Latin American institutions, in global business, finance, engineering and international relations. Direct history with multilateral development & finance institutions, government agencies and private counterparties across industries.
All engagements are principal-led.