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We deliver value to investors or developers through services including M&A, structuring, energy/carbon market analysis, origination and arrangement of financing.
The team possesses a broad ESG sector expertise, including renewable energy, energy transition technologies and carbon markets.
We align interests with our clients as we work on few projects and our compensation is weighted on success.
Our team is highly experienced and has usually been on our clients’ side of the table.
Since its inception, Becquerel has advised on and structured multiple GW of projects with total enterprise values in the billions.
We deliver value to investors or developers through services including M&A, structuring, energy/carbon market analysis, origination and arrangement of financing.
The team possesses a broad ESG sector expertise, including renewable energy, energy transition technologies and carbon markets.
We align interests with our clients as we work on few projects and our compensation is highly weighted on success.
Our team is highly experienced and has usually been on our clients’ side of the table.
Since its inception, Becquerel has advised on and structured multiple GW of projects with total enterprise values in the billions.
Becquerel Capital S.A.P.I. de C.V.
Coahuila 52, Roma Norte, 06700, Mexico City
Oscar started working for the Mexican Government in 2006 at the Federal Mortgage Society (SHF) where he valuated national mortgage-backed securities.
He worked for the Administration and Transfer Service (SAE) where he helped to liquidate bankrupt companies. He was also Deputy Director of Information in the Comptroller General’s Office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).
In 2012 and 2013 served as Director of Financial Programming at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), in charge of the valuation and financial programming infrastructure projects driven by sovereign wealth funds, such as the National Infrastructure Fund (FONADIN).
Since 2014 he is part of Becquerel Capital, where he leads the financial evaluation of clean energy projects.
Oscar holds a degree in Actuarial Science from ITAM.
Lucas is graduating from Chemical Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. He has participated in designing and optimizing capacities for off-grid developments involving PV systems, desalination plants, diesel, and battery storage; as well as in projects involving organic poultry waste and carbon offset mechanisms.
He is currently involved in advising a technologist with aims to decarbonize heavy industry globally.
Lucas completed the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme and was awarded an academic excellence scholarship at Universidad Iberoamericana. He enjoys learning new languages; Lucas is fluent in German and received the MSA Certificate in Berlin, he also completed the DELF B1 French Diploma.
Mechatronics Engineer with Master’s Degree in Engineering Management with more than 12 years in the energy sector as developer and advisor. As a technical expert and project manager for natural gas pipelines has developed infrastructure projects on over 1 BCF capacity.
M&A experience selling energy infrastructure companies. Advisor to government energy entities in Latin America in the development of new infrastructure projects that are currently in operation, whose investments add up to 15 BUSD sponsored by the private sector.
Israel Muciño Jara has a degree in Economics with honors, and a Master’s in Economics from UNAM.
He has seven years’ experience in the energy sector, particularly in electricity, having worked at the Transmission Direction of the Ministry of Energy, where he helped develop the expansion plans for generation and transmission (PRODESEN 2015 to 2017) and as Deputy Director of Economic Analysis at the Mexican energy regulator (CRE), where he contributed to the development and implementation of the electricity tariff methodology currently applied by CFE.
Israel currently focuses at Becquerel on Mexican electricity regulation and project/market economic analysis.
Israel previously served as Director of Chemical Industries at the Ministry of Economy and as a consultant evaluating science and technology programs.
Alejandro de la Mora works as an analyst since 2021, focusing on the technical and financial optimization of off-grid energy systems.
Graduated with honors from the degree of Chemical Engineering in Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Alejandro explored the energy sector during his studies, especially topics such as energy sustainability and renewable technologies.
Alejandro believes that oncoming technological advances will be the key to developing a more robust, decentralized, and sustainable energy matrix in Mexico. He is passionate about football and tennis, which he practices in his spare time.
James has a strong background in business development, strategic planning, and corporate finance, with extensive experience managing large-scale relationships and leading initiatives in renewable energy and carbon markets. He is skilled at identifying nascent markets and emerging asset classes, and in 2021 traded over 1 million tons of top-tier VCS-CCB emission reductions from natural climate solutions projects in Africa and Latin America.
During the early years of his career in investment banking with the Canadian investment bank GMP Securities, James developed strong relationships with publicly traded Toronto Stock Exchange-listed companies, including Northland Power (TSX:NPI) and Polaris Infrastructure (TSX:PIF). James strategically sought out development and operating assets in South America at a time when yields for equivalent assets in North America were thinning, and completed multiple successful merger and acquisition transactions in the Canadian capital markets.
James later joined Solar Power Network Inc., a commercial and industrial rooftop solar company based in Milan, Italy. Under James’s leadership as CFO, the firm was successful in winning off-take agreements with some of the largest corporate names in Italy, such as Henkel and Smurfit Kappa, valued at over $30 million.
More recently, James has been leveraging his knowledge of the renewable energy certificates platform in Europe, along with his relationships in emerging markets, to build a large trading book in the voluntary carbon offsets space, where he helps connect institutional capital with carbon credit projects around the world.
Areas of expertise:
Capital Markets | Voluntary Carbon Markets | Sales & Trading | Corporate Finance | Mergers & Acquisitions | Capital Raising
Harry started in Sustainable Investment in 2008, working in the European Emissions Trading Scheme. He subsequently joined Temporis Capital, and then founded Becquerel Capital in 2013. Harry has developed, advised and structured multiple Gigawatts of renewable energy transactions across Hydro, Solar, Wind, and Energy Efficiency.
Most recently, Harry has been advising companies within the Energy Transition space; ET Minerals, BESS, Carbon Capture and Reuse (CCUS), Fuel Substitution and Green Hydrogen. Harry holds a BA Hons in Modern History and a Masters in International Business from ESCP.
Jeff is a project and structured finance professional with 20 years’ experience structuring and negotiating financing and security packages for large-scale infrastructure, industrial and capital markets transactions in Latin America, including 15 years on the ground in Brazil and Mexico.
From 2008 through 2015 he was responsible for the Inter-American Development Bank’s (“IDB”) infrastructure lending in Mexico (primarily renewable energy). Previous to that (2003-2008) he managed IDB’s Capital Markets activities in Brazil.
From 1996 to 2003, Jeff was at Banco ABN AMRO Real in Sao Paulo, as Group Vice President for Infrastructure and Natural Resources for Latin America.
Jeff has a Master’s degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management and a BA in International Relations from the University of Colorado.