Pablo Arbona is Managing Partner and covers the Southern Europe market, a position he has held since establishing the Madrid office in 2020. With over 17 years of expertise in M&A, Project Finance, and business development within the renewable energy and core infrastructure, Pablo leads a team of 15 professionals in his current role. Prior to his position at Finergreen, Pablo held various executive positions at Rubicon Capital Advisors (Director) and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (Global Director of M&A, Head of M&A and Project Finance for France, Italy, Australia, Latam.) His extensive professional journey has equipped him with a comprehensive understanding across debt and capital markets within multiple geographies, including Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Chile.

Pablo is an Industrial Engineer (Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Sevilla) and holds a post-graduation degree from UNED (Financial Markets).

Théo Barallon is Managing Partner and co-heads the Paris office. He has more than a decade of experience in M&A and Project Finance with cross-disciplinary expertise in renewable energies and energy transition topics. Throughout Finergreen's journey, Théo has played a pivotal role in structuring its activities and strengthening the company’s position in France. He is now in charge of overseeing a team of more than 20 bankers.
Théo holds degrees from HEC Paris (MSc Entrepreneurship) and INSA Lyon (Industrial Engineering).

Louis Catala is Managing Partner and co-heads the Paris office. Louis has been involved in Finergreen’s development since its inception, accumulating more than ten years of high expertise not only in M&A and project financing but also in the renewable energy sector in France. Currently, Louis manages a team of over 20 professionals specialized across all segments of the energy transition.
Louis graduated from Audencia (Finance) and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering).

António Ferreira Pinto is Managing Partner and covers the Southern Africa market. With more than 20 years of experience in advisory transactions between Europe and Africa, he has a solid background in project finance, corporate finance, debt, equity raising as well as capital restructuring. Throughout his career, he has facilitated transactions totaling over USD 2,5 billion in value. His experience spans across a diverse range of sectors, including energy (renewables, gas, hydro), infrastructure (roads, hospitals, port containers), real estate, agribusiness, services, and industry. Before joining Finergreen, António notably worked for Eaglestone, Espirito Santo Investment Bank (currently Haitong Bank) and Millennium Investment Bank.
António holds a degree from Instituto Superior de Gestão in Portugal.

Yohann Guichard is Managing Partner Offtake Advisory for Finergreen, a position he has held since 2022 when he started to develop this expertise within the firm to oversee the arrangement and structuring of long-term offtake agreements on a global scale. He brings with him extensive experience, having spent close to two decades at Engie where he started in 2004 within the trading unit Gaselys, focusing on originating energy supply contracts and risk management in commodities markets including gas, power, and oil derivatives, as well as dry bulk commodities, carbon emissions, and freight.
Yohann holds a degree from Université Montesquieu Bordeaux 4 (Banking, Finance and Commodities).

Christian Inchauste is Managing Partner and covers the LATAM market. He brings with him over 30 years of experience in project and corporate finance in the energy sector in LATAM. Prior to joining Finergreen, he led the investment banking advisory business of EY in LATAM. Before that, he held CEO positions for YPFB Transporte, the second largest Midstream company in South America, and the Bolivia-to-Brazil gas pipeline, GasBol. During his career, Christian successively worked in Paris, Brussels, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, and Bolivia.
Christian holds a degree from ESCP Business School (Management, Finance, Economics).

Jean-Jacques Ngono is Managing Partner for Finergreen in charge of Africa.
He established the first international branch of Finergreen in Abidjan in 2016, followed by Nairobi in 2019 and Cape Town in 2021. Over the last decade, he has developed a solid combined expertise in M&A and renewable energy projects on the African continent supported by a strong and diversified network of institutional partners, developers, constructors, public agencies, consulting companies, financial institutions, investors, and lawyers.
Before joining Finergreen, Jean-Jacques spent over five years in investment in Africa, working for Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) and E. Oppenheimer & Son.
Jean-Jacques is also Board Member of several companies.
Jean-Jacques graduated from Université Paris Dauphine (Master 225, Corporate Finance & Financial Engineering).

Vladimir Olarte is Managing Partner and covers the Brazilian market. He has a solid background in business development, M&A, project finance, and strategic advisory with more than 15 years of experience supporting and leading business growth and operations in Brazil and the Americas, with a focus in renewables and the energy transition in the last eight years. During his career, he led the structuring, negotiation, and closing of transactions accounting for more than 2.5 GW of renewable energy projects and over USD 2 billion CAPEX.
Vladimir holds degrees from Columbia University (Economic Development), FGV (Business Economics), and Universidad Icesi (Economics and Business Administration).

Rohan Singh is Managing Partner and covers the APAC market, a position he has held since establishing the Singapore office in 2017. He has more than a decade of experience in arranging complex equity and debt financing for renewable energy and infrastructure, such as large-scale wind, solar and storage, bioenergy, EV charging, and related energy transition technologies. Rohan brings experience in originating and executing transactions across multiple markets in APAC, including Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and ASEAN countries.
Rohan graduated from Université Paris Dauphine (Master 225, Corporate Finance & Financial Engineering) and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Finance)

Justine Feuillet has a decade of experience in business law in international environments. She first worked in the corporate/M&A department of Deezer S.A. in Paris, before joining Finergreen in 2019. As Legal Manager of the Finergreen Group, she handles all the legal aspects of the Group’s activity, from operational and corporate aspects to Compliance and GDPR.
Justine holds degrees from Paris-Pantheon-Assas University and Université de Bordeaux (Law).

Nora Sauvage has a decade of experience in audit and financial controlling. After auditing banks and financial institutions at PwC in Paris, she began working in financial controlling at Thales in Madrid, before joining Finergreen in 2023 as Group Financial Manager.
Nora holds a degree from ESSCA Grande Ecole (Financial Audit).

John Walker AM, our Asia Senior Advisor, is a highly experienced figure who has spent over two decades in Asia. He began in Korea, serving as Chairman of Macquarie Capital Asia and Macquarie Group to lead the establishment of Macquarie’s business there, and then more broadly across Asia in a regional role. He retired in 2020 after a 24-year career within the Group.

Prior to this, he had a 26-year career in the Australian Government, holding roles such as Director General of Transport in New South Wales and Chief Executive of the Chief Minister’s Department in the Australian Capital Territory. Across all these positions, he led businesses and new initiatives in the energy and infrastructure sectors across project development, advisory and funds. In recognition of his achievements, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1998.

John remains based in Asia and has established and chaired Eastpoint Partners Limited, which provides a range of advisory services focusing primarily on energy transition.

He has also held a wide range of board positions with global companies, including:

• Chairman, Eastpoint Partners Limited (Hong Kong)
• Chairman, Asia, Glenfarne Infrastructure Holdings, LLC (New York)
• Chairman, Korea Renewable Energy Development & Operation (Korea)
• Independent Chairman & Director of the Board, BE C&I Solutions Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
• Chairman of the Board, GoldenRock Capital Partners Ltd. (Vietnam)
• Board Member, Akaysha Energy (Australia)
• Investment Committee Member, British International Investment (UK)
• Senior Advisor, EG Funds Management Pty Limited (Australia)
• Senior Advisor, Finergreen Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore) Senior Advisor, Federation Asset Management Pty Limited (Australia).

Javier Sobrini, our Southern Europe and Latin America Senior Advisor, is an accomplished investment banking professional. Prior to his position at Finergreen, he had a 33-year successful career at Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB).

In 2007, he joined Santander CIB as Global Head and led the global industry group for the energy sector until his departure. During his last years there, Javier and his team led several M&A rankings, being ranked #1 in Renewables in Europe and in Iberia, #1 in Energy overall in Iberia, and #2 in Renewables and in Energy overall in Latin America. Several of the M&A transactions he advised were the largest ever in these subsectors or countries and have been recognized with M&A awards.

Additionally, he and his team were the main contributors to Banco Santander’s Green Finance targets, a public commitment the bank had to support energy transition and sustainability. Before that Global Head responsibility, Javier had been for seven years the Senior Banker covering the Spanish energy utilities and O&G companies.

He holds a Degree in Law (ICADE, Madrid), and two MBAs including an executive one in e-business and e-management (IE, Madrid).

Laurent Lavigne du Cadet, our North America Senior Advisor, is a seasoned investment professional with over 25 years of experience in investment banking, project finance, mergers & acquisitions, and direct investment across the energy, renewables, technology, and infrastructure sectors. He is FINRA-certified (Series 7, 24, 79, 63, 99) and brings extensive regulatory and capital markets expertise.

• Former CEO of Amwal Bank (Qatar), CEO of GCM Gamma Capital Inc. (SEC-regulated), Deputy CEO at Taylor-DeJongh, and Managing Director/Fund Manager at Dubai Islamic Bank.
• Served as Senior Advisor in Dentons US LLP’s Energy & Infrastructure practice.
• Began his career training with J.P. Morgan in Paris and London.

He holds an MBA and a PhD in International Finance.