Integrate ESG and Sustainability into the Root of Your Strategy
Access to capital is increasingly dependent on demonstrating sound management of ESG and sustainability considerations. Likewise, when making investments, valuations need to consider the related risks and the future competitive advantages that the most sustainable businesses will leverage. Anthesis supports these processes, together with the banks, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds seeking to offer finance products and investments that are either categorised as Sustainable or Impact, or simply demonstrate those considerations are actively managed within their operations.
We leverage our technical capabilities and commercial understanding to offer investment due diligence and ESG and sustainability advisory support to those wishing to raise funds or offer finance products. As an industry leading strategic partner, we assist with the design and implementation of ESG and Responsible Investment Strategies, value enhancement during the investment lifecycle, regulatory support, and reporting.
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Transform your financial strategies with our Finance, Investment, and Due Diligence solutions. From navigating Mergers & Acquisitions to crafting sustainable finance products and facilitating responsible investments, our services empower organisations to thrive financially while prioritising environmental and social responsibility.
Investment Due Diligence
Anthesis supports investors and corporates to identify risks and opportunities on acquisition, to support integration, and then to create and protect value on divestment. This can include guidance on whether an investment can be defensibly defined as an “Impact” or “Sustainable” investment, for example, in line with the EU Taxonomy.
We support mergers & acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure investments, and debt provision. Our due diligence services include ESG & EHS, Integrity, Workplace Culture, Commercial, Technical, Human Rights & Supply Chain, and Climate Change.
We help lenders and borrowers seeking to offer or raise funds through ESG or sustainability linked loans and bonds. We assist with baselining the borrowers current ESG performance, KPI (Sustainable Performance Targets) selection, and annual performance verification in line with LMA, LSTA, APLMA ,and related guidance.
For lenders, we also support the overarching ESG requirements of their funds, undertaking pre-lending due diligence, data collection & analysis (including carbon metrics), and reporting.
Fundraising & IPO Readiness
Anthesis assists investors and corporate businesses seeking to raise capital through direct private investment or IPO, to prepare to meet institutional investor expectations around ESG and sustainable investment criteria. We support clients to put in place robust ESG strategies and data to evidence performance improvement. We also assist in creating defensible narratives around the sustainable credentials of a business’ operations and services, showing eligibility and alignment with the EU Taxonomy and other frameworks where applicable.
Responsible Investment Strategies
We help Financial Institutions to review, develop, and implement ESG and Responsible Investment strategies that integrate ESG and sustainable investment criteria into their operations, services, products, and investment activities.
We assist clients to identify their material ESG aspects, regulatory obligations, and relevant voluntary frameworks, and to determine a level of ambition, leveraging peer analysis and stakeholder engagement to define the optimum approach. We then assist with implementation, building policies and systems, providing education and training, and secondment support where required.
Regulations, Data & Reporting
Anthesis supports clients to build the underlying policies and systems and make disclosures to achieve compliance with regulations, such as the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) and the Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Regulations (CSRD), and to meet voluntary commitments to frameworks, such as the TCFD and TNFD.
We also support engagement with ESG rankers and raters, such as MSCI and S&P, and prepare bespoke Sustainability or ESG reports and investor communications. At the heart of the process is collating and interpreting robust data, for which we can deploy our Mero software platform.
Investment Lifecycle Support
We work with investors and asset managers to enhance the ESG performance of their assets. We provide ESG education programs and help onboard investments into portfolios, implementing the client’s standard ESG requirements and identifying and supporting the implementation of broader, asset-specific ESG improvement programs.
Within this, or as separate programs, we help clients make and manage their investments consistent with a Net Zero carbon transition and manage key topics including circularity, nature, human rights & supply chain, and DEI. Throughout, we help collate robust data to evidence the improvement, meet stakeholder and regulatory requirements, and support value creation at exit.
ESMA & ICMA Reviews
Anthesis has been included in ESMA’s official list of approved reviewers, allowing it to offer assessments under Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 with the highest standards of independence, transparency, and technical rigour.
In addition, Anthesis is listed as an external reviewer by ICMA, reinforcing its credibility and experience in verifying bonds aligned with the Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles , and Sustainability Bond Guidelines .
We were very pleased with our experience working with Anthesis throughout the diligence process. From start to finish, Anthesis provided critical market expertise and exceptional work product that equipped us with the market knowledge, tools and support for the transaction.
We were pleased to work with the Anthesis team on this project and are very happy with the support they provided. The team’s expertise in SBTs in Private Equity, combined with their attentiveness to our needs, made us comfortable to commit to the SBTi. They also made the submission process to the SBTi very smooth by helping out with the application to fulfil all requirements.
