Independent financial advisory for energy businesses. Capital raising, M&A and strategic advice, led directly by senior partners from strategy through execution.
Figures reflect the collective experience of our partners across their careers, including work at prior firms.
Pontia Partners provides independent financial advisory and strategy consulting, with a focus on energy and oil & gas. Our partners have worked as advisors, investors, executives and board members, bringing an understanding of how financing and transaction decisions affect the businesses behind them.
We work directly with owners and management teams to assess alternatives and pursue an approach suited to their objectives. Senior partners lead each engagement, combining independent judgment with hands-on involvement throughout execution.
Our team’s experience has been shaped at institutions including Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse, UBS, Merrill Lynch and McKinsey & Company.
It also includes board service at Endeavour International and investment vehicles affiliated with Apollo, including MidCap Financial Investment and the Apollo–Mubadala private credit platform.
Together, these careers bring an understanding of how companies operate, how investors allocate capital and how complex transactions are negotiated.
Our financial advisory and consulting services address your funding needs, strategic priorities and ownership preferences.
We help companies assess funding requirements, structure financing alternatives and engage suitable capital providers. Our experience spans debt and equity financing, private credit and structured capital at the corporate and asset levels.
We support the capital raising process from investment case development and investor outreach through negotiations and closing.
We provide M&A advisory for acquisitions, business combinations and the sale of companies or assets. Our work covers strategic assessment, valuation, counterparty selection and transaction execution.
We help clients evaluate proposals and negotiate terms that reflect both financial value and their broader business objectives.
We help companies secure partners and capital for energy development and growth. Potential structures include joint ventures, farm-outs, joint development arrangements and infrastructure partnerships.
We assess how investment commitments, control and future returns can be shared to support the objectives of each party.
We advise on debt refinancing, recapitalizations and financial restructuring. Our work considers debt capacity, liquidity requirements and the relationship between financing obligations and operating cash flows.
We support negotiations with lenders and investors as companies pursue growth or respond to changing circumstances.
We evaluate businesses, assets and transaction alternatives to support decisions by owners, management teams and boards.
Our experience includes oil & gas asset valuations, the assessment of transaction economics and expert analysis in complex negotiations and disputes.
We help management teams define growth priorities, allocate capital and improve business performance.
Our strategy and operations consulting spans portfolio strategy, operating models and transformation programs, connecting strategic decisions with the capabilities and actions required for implementation.
Conventional and unconventional oil & gas exploration, production and development. We help assess asset acquisitions, portfolio decisions and partnerships that connect development plans with appropriate sources of capital.
Our approach considers investment requirements, development timing and the allocation of ownership, control and economic returns.
Pipelines, gathering and processing systems, storage and transportation infrastructure. We assess financing and transaction alternatives in the context of contracted revenues, throughput requirements and the assets they serve.
Potential approaches include infrastructure partnerships, asset monetization and capital for expansion.
Refineries, terminals and related distribution assets. Our experience includes asset transactions and valuations, with attention to operating performance, working capital and future investment requirements.
We help clients evaluate acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alternatives for complex industrial assets.
Drilling, well services, equipment and other businesses supporting energy production and transportation. We assess opportunities in the context of customer activity, utilization and capital intensity.
Our work connects financing and transaction decisions with business positioning and operational performance through the industry cycle.
Our partners’ careers span capital raising, energy M&A advisory, private equity investment and board-level transaction evaluation.
Global equity offering as part of YPF’s privatization, expanding private ownership and bringing the Argentine energy company to international equity markets through a landmark capital markets transaction.
Combination of Apache’s Alpine High midstream assets with Kayne Anderson Acquisition Corp. to form Altus Midstream, a publicly traded midstream company, with US$628m in cash contributed at closing.
Merger of MidCap Financial Investment with Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund and Apollo Tactical Income Fund, bringing the three investment portfolios together within a single publicly traded investment company.
Acquisition of the Longhorn pipeline system by Magellan, together with its linefill inventory. The transaction expanded Magellan’s refined petroleum products transportation network through the addition of an established pipeline asset.
Sale of Tesoro’s Hawaii refining business to Par Petroleum. The transaction transferred the refining operation to a new owner, with consideration comprising a base payment, working capital and contingent payments.
Valuation and arbitration work involving the Pasadena refinery and its shareholders’ economic interests. The engagement included expert analysis of asset value and disputed transaction economics in a complex refining investment.
Selected experience reflects individual partners’ advisory, investment and board roles, including work at prior firms. Transaction amounts represent different measures and are not additive.
Our partners bring longstanding relationships with private equity firms, private credit managers, infrastructure investors and sovereign investment institutions.
The firms shown represent a selection of these relationships. We identify potential capital providers and transaction partners according to each opportunity’s investment requirements and the client’s objectives.
Selected relationships of individual partners; inclusion does not imply an affiliation, endorsement or commitment to invest.
Our partners combine energy finance and transaction experience with institutional capital relationships, operating leadership and strategy expertise. They lead engagements directly and remain involved throughout the process.
Alexander brings more than 45 years of financing and operating leadership experience in energy, with involvement in transactions exceeding US$6bn.
Alexander co-founded Oasis Partners in 1989 and has combined financial advisory and investment work with executive leadership, including CEO roles. His experience connects financing decisions with the responsibilities of building and operating businesses.
Alexander previously served as a director of Endeavour International and its European affiliates, including as Chair of the Audit Committee of Endeavour International Holding BV.
Alexander holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College.
Garfield brings more than 50 years of investment banking and transaction advisory experience in energy, with involvement in transactions exceeding US$10bn.
Garfield founded Aegis Energy Advisors. His previous leadership roles include Co-Head of Energy and Chemicals at Salomon Brothers and Head of Natural Resources M&A at Credit Suisse.
Garfield’s experience spans capital raising, acquisitions and divestitures, alongside valuations and complex negotiations involving energy assets. Selected work includes YPF’s privatization and global equity offering, pipeline and refining transactions, and valuation and arbitration support relating to Petrobras’s Pasadena refinery.
Garfield holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Middlebury College.
Rudolph brings more than 45 years of financing and investment experience, including energy and involvement in more than US$5bn of private equity transactions.
Rudolph founded Riverford Partners and co-founded Clarity Partners and Clarity China. His career combines investment leadership with board service and strategic advisory roles.
Rudolph has served on the board of MidCap Financial Investment Corporation since 2013 and is a board member of MidCap Apollo Institutional Private Lending, the private credit vehicle involving Apollo and Mubadala. His energy experience also includes former board roles at Weatherford International, Parker Drilling and CRC-Evans Pipeline.
Rudolph holds an MBA from UCLA and a BA from Stanford University.
Patricio combines strategy consulting and financial services experience with a focus on oil & gas strategy and transformation.
Patricio previously served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and has also worked at UBS and Techint. His background connects strategic analysis with financial and industrial perspectives.
Patricio works with management teams to assess growth opportunities, shape investment priorities and translate strategic decisions into transformation programs. At Pontia, he combines this work with financial advisory to support decisions on capital and business development.
Patricio holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Master’s in Finance from Universidad de San Andrés and a degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Mariano combines strategy consulting and corporate leadership experience with a focus on oil & gas strategy and operations.
Mariano previously served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and has held leadership roles at A.P. Moller–Maersk and IMPSA. His background brings together corporate development and an understanding of complex industrial businesses.
Mariano works with management teams on growth strategy, operational effectiveness and the implementation of business priorities. At Pontia, he connects investment decisions with the operating capabilities required to deliver results.
Mariano holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen and a degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
We begin with the decision you need to make, the business context and the outcomes you want to achieve.
We evaluate financing, transaction and strategic options, developing an approach suited to your objectives and constraints.
Our partners work directly with management teams and relevant counterparties, maintaining momentum through preparation, evaluation, negotiations and execution.
We reassess alternatives as circumstances evolve, keeping your priorities at the center of the engagement.
Whether you are raising capital, considering an energy transaction or planning the next stage of growth, we welcome a confidential conversation with our partners.