Transactions + Finance

Satu is the Director for Transaction and Corporate Services in the Nordics and is Managing Director of Anthesis Finland Oy. She has over 20 years of consultancy experience in the Environmental Due Diligence (EDD) and Strategic corporate services field and has managed and coordinated more than 800 international M&A EDD projects to date.

A leader in her field in EHS compliance and assurance in the Nordics including extensive experience in site solutions (soil, groundwater and sediment contamination, remediation and site closures), EHS regulatory support, EHS management systems and work within the chemical and petrochemical industries.

Part of the UK Senior Leadership Team, Tim is the Director for Financial Services, based in London. Tim joined from Ramboll in 2017 where he was responsible for developing ESG services in Europe. Tim has over twenty years of experience. His initial focus was on the direction of multi-site, multi-jurisdictional EHS due diligence projects undertaken as part of M&A transactions and the provision of wider EHS advice and support.

More recently Tim has helped his clients to respond to the ESG agenda. Tim has broadened the scope of their due diligence to encompass ESG factors, helped develop their internal ESG policies and management systems and has worked with their assets and portfolio companies to improve their ESG performance. Tim’s current focus is on developing new ways to monitor that asset and portfolio company ESG performance and to enhance their assessment and mitigation of climate change risks, including in line with the TCFD.

Tim currently sits on the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) Responsible Investment Advisory Group.

Frank has more than 20 years of experience in consulting, with expertise in EHS Due Diligence, soil and groundwater remediation and investigation, ESG reviews, mining and exploration and international EU development cooperation.

Prior to joining Anthesis, Frank Schmidt worked for Ernst & Young, and Ramboll Environ, where he managed large scale international due diligence projects, acted as central key client contact for a global automotive supplier, and took the lead for international remediation programs

Frank holds an MSc in geology from the Technical University Berlin. Coming from a background in mineral exploration and international cooperation for small scale mining support, Frank entered the field of environmental consulting in 2002. His work experience covers Europe, South and Central America, and western and southern Africa.

An Executive Director in the Anthesis Group’s North American business, Don has 18+ years of experience helping operating companies, asset managers, and financial institutions develop and implement sustainability strategies that create business value by growing revenue, enhancing brands, improving operating efficiency, and managing risks.

Throughout his career, Don has worked with both large operating companies and with providers of capital to those companies to better understand the nature and scale of those risks and opportunities, manage them over planning horizons, and integrate them into existing risk management and opportunity systems.

Don has helped a Money Center bank develop a quantitative system for analyzing carbon asset risk in the power and utility industry using existing data sources. He is also helping a global independent power producer develop its first climate report following the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) which will break ground on analyzing opportunities.

Sherwood has over 10 years’ experience in EHS consulting, with particular expertise in EHS regulatory identification and update, EHS compliance audit, environmental due diligence assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, and other environmental consulting services related to environmental, health and safety legislation.

Sherwood’s project experience covers sectors such as electronic, recycling and waste management, chemical and pharmaceutical, automotive and mechanical, energy, food and beverage, construction, packaging, pulp and paper, mining & foundry, transportation, property development and real estate. Mr. Li provides a comprehensive EHS service across Asia including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines.

Based in our German hub, Chris Keller has more than 30 years of global experience in dealing with transaction related risks for a broad spectrum of financial investors and industry clients from natural resources to manufacturing, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

He has extensive experience on advising corporate businesses on dealing with legacy issues derived from past and present activities and via acquisition processes.