Palladium structures, negotiates, and executes transactions to raise debt or equity capital from early-stage Series A, mission-driven enterprises in the emerging markets of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Leveraging our knowledge of emerging and frontier markets, we work closely with clients to frame and promote investment propositions to a strong, relevant, and global impact investor network. We also arrange merger and acquisition (M&A) deals by employing a structured, transparent, and pragmatic approach to designing and executing on transactions for our clients.

Palladium brings a fundraising practitioner’s perspective to building investment strategies and designing innovative investment vehicles for Development Financial Institutions, corporations, non-profit organisations, and foundations. In structuring investment transactions, our focus is on ensuring alignment of objectives between the investor and the investee. By bringing together the right businesses with the right providers of capital, and by structuring the transaction carefully, we build relationships that can endure both the good times and the bad.

We structure, negotiate, and execute transactions to raise debt or equity capital for mission-based funds and facilities. As an FCA (UK) registered broker dealer, Palladium specialises in advising on fund positioning, marketing, and connecting clients to its vast network of limited partners interested in generating both financial returns and positive impact.

We foster innovation by bringing together ideas from the public and private sectors, including the application of financing mechanisms adapted from the private sector to the development context, allowing us to structure investments that drive economic growth and serve society. Seed funding and blended finance can catalyze scale by de-risking ventures and new systemic approaches, ultimately helping private sector capital flow more quickly into market gaps and providing leverage to attract private capital. These innovative approaches can be effective at addressing large-scale business and development challenges, and there is a tremendous need and appetite among investors and donors.

For example, Palladium is pioneering the use of development impact bonds, where private investors pay in advance for interventions to reach agreed development goals. This structure gives flexibility for investors, intermediaries and service providers to be responsive and adaptable to changing circumstances in order to achieve the most cost-effective, value-adding solution.

Also, Palladium actively promotes and supports innovation through challenge funds. The goal of innovation challenge funds is to identify and support innovations with the potential to create social impact. We focus on market-driven solutions to intractable social issues in areas such as health, education, and economic growth.