Cross-border sustainable finance · Emerging markets ⇄ Europe
Where emerging-market opportunity meets European capital.
Pacay Partners is a boutique sustainable-finance advisory structuring cross-border investment between high-growth markets — rooted in Brazil, reaching across Latin America and Africa — and European capital, in critical raw materials, green bonds and digital infrastructure.
The bridge
One firm between two markets
We sit between originators in high-growth markets and European institutional capital. With roots in Brazil's agribusiness, mining and bioenergy heartland — and a reach extending across Latin America and Africa — Pacay Partners keeps every deal centralised, senior-led and end to end, structuring through Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Origination — emerging markets
Projects and issuers in agribusiness, mining, energy and infrastructure — rooted in Brazil, reaching across Latin America and Africa.
Structuring — Luxembourg & Switzerland
Bond vehicles and investment structures built with our partners.
Capital — Europe
ESG institutional investors, family offices, public funds and ECAs.
What we do
Three fronts, one mandate
Today our work is concentrated in three areas where supply from emerging markets meets European demand for capital.
Critical raw materials & rare earths
We connect greenfield critical-raw-material and rare-earth projects — in Brazil and across other resource-rich emerging markets — to EU capital aligned with the European Critical Raw Materials Act (Reg. 2024/1252), engaging public sources such as BNDES, the EIB and export-credit agencies alongside private mining funds.
Green bonds & carbon credits
We originate and structure green and blue bonds for issuers in Brazil and other emerging markets, targeting European ESG institutional investors, alongside carbon-credit strategies.
Data centers
We structure financing for data-center and digital-infrastructure projects, channeling European and Swiss capital into the fast-growing demand of emerging markets.
Why Switzerland
A gateway to Swiss and European capital
From our Swiss base, Pacay Partners opens a door for companies and investors who want to operate in Switzerland and Europe — and benefit from the region's low cost of capital. We structure vehicles through Luxembourg and Switzerland and centralise deal flow end to end.
Our objective
To understand where leading funds and banks are already invested across these segments — and to build long-term co-investment partnerships.
Network
Built on the right partners
Emergy Capital Markets
Structuring partner — financial vehicle based in Luxembourg.
CHAmBR
Chamber of Commerce Brazil–Switzerland, Geneva.
Origination network
Anchored in Brazil — São Paulo, Rio, Minas Gerais and the agricultural heartland — and expanding across Latin America and Africa.
Team
Senior, hands-on, cross-border
Alan Dappelfeld
Founder
Cross-border origination and sustainable finance, with deep roots in Brazil and a growing reach across emerging markets in agribusiness, mining and bioenergy.
Mara Harwood
Co-founder
Sustainable finance and institutional partnerships across Brazil and Europe.
Contact
Let's build the bridge
Whether you are an issuer in an emerging market or an investor in Europe, we'd like to hear from you.
Geneva, Switzerland · Luxembourg · Brazil