Specialist transaction advisory

Opportunity, Structured for Capital

Credible transactions often remain unfunded because structure, evidence, risk allocation and engagement logic have not been brought into a form institutional capital can evaluate efficiently. Aldbury serves at that point of transition. We design the necessary trade architecture to bring the opportunity to the standard required to engage capital.

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Who we are

Aldbury is a transaction architecture and advisory firm operating where commercial complexity meets institutional capital

We examine the underlying economics, counterparties, risks, contractual relationships and sources of repayment, then create the structure required to bring those elements into alignment. Where necessary, we reshape the transaction itself before determining how and where capital should be engaged.

Our role is not simply to introduce opportunity to capital. It is to develop the commercial logic, risk architecture, evidence and execution pathway required for the transaction to withstand institutional examination—and, where supported by a capital provider, to progress through diligence and execution.

Architecture

Transform the commercial objective into a coherent transaction structure.

Alignment

Bring economics, counterparties, contracts, risks and repayment into alignment.

Execution

Prepare the institutional case and coordinate the pathway from evaluation to closing.

The Origination Platform

From Deal Flow to Executable Transactions

The platform converts origination into a disciplined transaction-development process. Opportunities move through structured assessment, architecture and institutional preparation so that only transactions capable of meeting defined financing and execution standards progress toward capital engagement.

Origination and mandate definition

Establish the commercial objective, authority, parties, transaction perimeter, required outcome and Aldbury’s mandate.

Commercial and structural evaluation

Evaluate the trade or project logic, economics, evidence, counterparties, jurisdiction, repayment basis and execution constraints.

Transaction architecture design

Design the commercial, financial, contractual, security, cash-flow and stakeholder architecture required to make the transaction coherent.

Risk architecture and placement

Assess each material risk; determine how it should be mitigated and allocated; and identify the appropriate insurer, guarantor or risk-bearing party.

Institutional preparation and engagement

Prepare the financial analysis, documentation, information memorandum and data room, then engage relevant capital and commercial partners.

Execution management

Coordinate diligence, clarification, negotiation, documentation, conditions precedent, stakeholder actions and the pathway to closing.

Governing principle

Aldbury Originates, Architects and Presents opportunities for institutional capital engagement. Each funding partner applies its own mandate, underwriting, pricing and approval process.

Benefits for capital providers

Origination Designed for Institutional Capital

Aldbury’s Origination Platform is designed to give private credit funds, banks and other capital providers access to a differentiated pool of real-economy trade opportunities. Successful transactions are structured to offer strong credit characteristics where repayment is linked to identifiable commercial flows, established counterparties and clearly defined sources of repayment.

The proposition extends beyond deal flow. Aldbury develops each opportunity through transaction architecture, institutional preparation and structured evidence, enabling a capital provider to assess a coherent transaction rather than reconstruct one from fragmented information.

Portfolio characteristics

Short-duration, transaction-specific and self-liquidating trade assets can support diversification and allow capital to recycle more rapidly than conventional medium- or long-dated private credit exposures.

Transaction quality

Robust architecture can strengthen payment mechanics, security, documentary controls, risk allocation and counterparty alignment before an opportunity is presented for institutional review.

Diligence and evidence

Financial, commercial, legal and operational diligence is supported by a structured data room covering counterparties, contracts, trade flows, financial information, collateral, repayment mechanics, findings and transaction documentation.

Mandate-aligned origination

Opportunities are evaluated against the capital provider’s stated parameters—including geography, sector, tenor, size and preferred structure—before they are advanced for engagement.

Decision authority

Each capital provider alone determines whether to proceed and retains sole authority over final structure, pricing, underwriting, credit approval and participation.

Capabilities

Deep transaction capability across trade, projects and infrastructure

Aldbury’s work is determined by the requirements of the transaction, not by a preselected financing product.

Structured Trade and Commodity Finance

Aldbury designs transaction structures around the commercial flow: who performs, who pays, what controls the proceeds, where risk sits and how capital is repaid. The work can extend from initial trade architecture through documentation, risk placement, funder engagement and closing.

Trade-flow, contractual and commercial architecture
Pre-export, receivables, inventory and borrowing-base structures
Supply-chain, vendor and equipment-finance structures
Letters of credit, guarantees, surety and trade-credit insurance
Offtake, supply, repayment and cash-flow alignment
Collateral, controlled accounts, waterfalls and security architecture
Countertrade, counterpurchase, buyback and reciprocal trade
Risk assessment, mitigation, allocation and placement
Institutional documentation, data-room preparation and diligence
Capital-provider engagement, negotiation and closing support

Project Finance

Aldbury works across the development-to-financial-close continuum. We integrate commercial, technical, contractual, financial and risk requirements so that sponsors, contractors, offtakers, insurers and capital providers can evaluate the same executable project structure.

Project structure, bankability and development-path evaluation
Financial modelling and capital-structure design
Sponsor, stakeholder and contractual alignment
EPC, completion, construction and performance-risk architecture
Offtake, feedstock, concession and revenue arrangements
Risk matrices; risk mitigation, allocation and placement
Insurance, guarantee, export-credit and DFI participation
Debt-service, security, covenant and control architecture
Documentation and data-room preparation; diligence management
Term-sheet analysis, negotiation, conditions precedent and closing

Infrastructure Advisory

Infrastructure requires coordination among public authorities, sponsors, contractors, operators, users, technical advisers and multiple forms of capital. Aldbury develops the transaction framework that connects those interests to a credible delivery and financing plan.

Commercial and delivery-model architecture
Public, private and strategic stakeholder coordination
Revenue, tariff, availability and user-payment structures
Phasing, interface and implementation planning
Risk allocation across construction, operation and demand
Blended, development, export-credit and private capital pathways
Procurement, concession and contractual interfaces
Institutional preparation and transaction management

Aldbury's Disciplines

The disciplines applied inside the transaction

Aldbury integrates commercial, financial, contractual, risk and execution disciplines within one senior-led transaction process. This is what distinguishes transaction architecture from simple introduction or capital sourcing.

Commercial and trade-flow architecture

Aligning contracts, counterparties, physical flows, cash flows and execution responsibilities.

Financial and repayment architecture

Designing sources and uses, repayment mechanics, waterfalls, controls and capital structures around the commercial transaction.

Risk assessment, mitigation, allocation and placement

Identifying the party best able to retain, mitigate, transfer, insure, guarantee or price each material risk.

Contractual and security architecture

Connecting commercial undertakings, collateral, covenants, account control and enforcement logic into a coherent structure.

Countertrade and reciprocal trade

Structuring counterpurchase, buyback, offset and other reciprocal mechanisms where conventional settlement alone is insufficient.

Project bankability and capital structuring

Integrating sponsor, EPC, offtake, feedstock, technical, insurance and financing requirements into an executable project framework.

Institutional preparation and data rooms

Developing the information architecture, documentation, financial analysis and data-room organisation required for effective review.

Multi-party negotiation and transaction management

Coordinating principals, capital providers, insurers, lawyers, advisers and technical parties through diligence, documentation and closing.

Who we serve

Different entry points. One disciplined transaction process.

Aldbury works with transaction principals, capital providers and professional introducers. Each enters the relationship from a different position, but all benefit from clear authority, rigorous transaction architecture and disciplined execution.

From commercial objective to executable transaction architecture

Aldbury works with companies, sponsors and asset owners whose transactions require more than access to capital. We evaluate the commercial objective, counterparties, structural constraints, risks and sources of repayment, then design the trade or project architecture required for institutional capital engagement.

Where the existing transaction cannot support the intended financing, we work with the client and its advisers to reshape the commercial, contractual, financial and risk arrangements before approaching relevant capital providers.

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Establish the commercial objective
Define the underlying trade, project or asset objective, the parties involved, the required capital and the intended execution outcome.
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Design the transaction architecture
Assess the commercial, structural, financial, contractual, risk and stakeholder constraints, then develop the mechanisms required to address them.
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Prepare and manage institutional engagement
Build the institutional case—including financial analysis, documentation and data-room preparation—and coordinate engagement, diligence, negotiation and execution.

Experience and judgement

Experience is not biography. It is the foundation of better transaction decisions.

Over a century of combined senior experience sits within a team whose careers span structured trade, capital markets and project finance.

Aldbury is led by Robert Ford, whose career spans more than 40 years in structured trade and commodity finance, emerging markets, sovereign analysis, countertrade, project finance and capital-markets execution.

Aldbury's Chief Investment Officer brings 35 years of capital-markets experience, while its Head of Projects brings 45 years across the development, financing and execution of complex projects.

Across their respective careers, the three senior principals have executed trades and projects in more than 100 countries, involving aggregate financing measured in the tens of billions of US dollars. That breadth provides a substantial base of precedent from which to assess structure, risk, counterparties and execution strategy.

For clients and capital providers, the practical value is a transaction examined from multiple institutional perspectives before critical decisions are taken—and managed with the discipline required to move from commercial intention towards executable structure.

Professional Introducers

A Partnership Beyond the Introduction

Aldbury works with a select network of professional introducers who encounter credible commercial opportunities through their own clients, markets and professional relationships. We are interested in more than the introduction itself. Our objective is to build enduring relationships with people who understand their clients, exercise sound commercial judgement and recognise when specialist transaction expertise can add meaningful value.

Who We Look For

We look for experienced advisers and specialists with established relationships, strong professional standing and access to genuine real-economy opportunities. The strongest relationships are with introducers who value transparency, discretion, responsiveness and long-term credibility; who are prepared to challenge an opportunity as well as advocate for it; and who understand that successful financing begins with credible counterparties, defensible economics and a transaction capable of withstanding institutional scrutiny.

Building Long-Term Professional Partnerships

Our relationship is with the introducer, not simply the opportunity they introduce. Aldbury seeks to build long-term professional partnerships that extend across clients, transactions and markets, combining the introducer’s trusted relationships and commercial insight with our transaction structuring and financing expertise. Working collaboratively, we can support clients from the earliest financing discussions through institutional engagement and execution, including situations where a conventional financing approach may initially appear difficult. By examining the underlying commercial proposition, transaction architecture and available risk solutions together, we can often identify alternative pathways that would not be apparent from a standard funding approach. The objective is a durable partnership in which each successful engagement strengthens the capability, confidence and value we can bring to the next.

For professional advisers seeking to extend their transaction capability without displacing the originating relationship.

Begin the conversation

Start with the commercial objective and the constraint preventing progress

If the opportunity requires transaction architecture, institutional preparation or execution management, provide a concise initial summary for Aldbury’s evaluation.