Backing enablers of the energy transition. 

Leadwood Partners invests in strategically important, scalable businesses across the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Backing enablers of the energy transition. 

Leadwood Partners invests in strategically important, scalable businesses across the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Why Leadwood

Leadwood Partners invests in strategically important, scalable businesses across the energy and infrastructure sectors. Leadwood collaborates with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams to build enduring platforms.

We operate on a deal-by-deal basis with a network of aligned capital partners who share our long-term, active ownership mindset.

Flexible capital. Operational know-how. Long-term Conviction.

Why Leadwood

Leadwood Partners invests in strategically important, scalable businesses across the energy and infrastructure sectors. Leadwood collaborates with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams to build enduring platforms.

We operate on a deal-by-deal basis with a network of aligned capital partners who share our long-term, active ownership mindset.

Flexible capital. Operational know-how. Long-term Conviction.

We exist to identify and grow critical, undercapitalised businesses across both industrial and infrastructure adjacencies that are essential to a more efficient, flexible, and lower-carbon future.  

We exist to identify and grow critical, undercapitalised businesses across both industrial and infrastructure adjacencies that are essential to a more efficient, flexible, and lower-carbon future.  

Office
Office
Office

Our Focus Areas

Our Focus Areas

Leadwood Partners invests in companies that are essential to delivering and sustaining the energy transition. We focus on sectors where specialist knowledge, industrial execution, and flexible capital can unlock outsized long-term value creation. 

Our thematic lens is broad, adaptive, and opportunity-driven – grounded in three enduring transition drivers:

Our Focus Areas

Leadwood Partners invests in companies that are essential to delivering and sustaining the energy transition. We focus on sectors where specialist knowledge, industrial execution, and flexible capital can unlock outsized long-term value creation. 

Our thematic lens is broad, adaptive, and opportunity-driven – grounded in three enduring transition drivers:

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(Foundational Drivers)

Decarbonisation Enablers

Energy
Energy
Energy
  • Components

    Businesses that provide the services, tools, and components critical to the shift toward low-carbon energy, manufacturing, and transport systems.

  • Components

    Businesses that provide the services, tools, and components critical to the shift toward low-carbon energy, manufacturing, and transport systems.

  • Components

    Businesses that provide the services, tools, and components critical to the shift toward low-carbon energy, manufacturing, and transport systems.

  • Examples

    – Electrification of industrial processes – Service providers to clean generation and transition-era energy infrastructure – Equipment or systems that enhance operational efficiency or extend asset life

  • Examples

    – Electrification of industrial processes – Service providers to clean generation and transition-era energy infrastructure – Equipment or systems that enhance operational efficiency or extend asset life

  • Examples

    – Electrification of industrial processes – Service providers to clean generation and transition-era energy infrastructure – Equipment or systems that enhance operational efficiency or extend asset life

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(System Transformation)

Infrastructure & Grid Modernisation

Wind
Wind
Wind
  • Systems

    Companies contributing to a distributed, digitised, and more resilient energy system.

  • Systems

    Companies contributing to a distributed, digitised, and more resilient energy system.

  • Systems

    Companies contributing to a distributed, digitised, and more resilient energy system.

  • Examples

    – Grid hardware and balance-of-system integrators – Energy storage and smart infrastructure platforms – Software and services that optimise power flows, usage, or uptime

  • Examples

    – Grid hardware and balance-of-system integrators – Energy storage and smart infrastructure platforms – Software and services that optimise power flows, usage, or uptime

  • Examples

    – Grid hardware and balance-of-system integrators – Energy storage and smart infrastructure platforms – Software and services that optimise power flows, usage, or uptime

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3

(Bridge Strategies)

Strategic Legacy Energy Transition

Solar
Solar
Solar
  • Strategy

    Investments in transitional businesses that bridge current energy systems with future-ready solutions.

  • Strategy

    Investments in transitional businesses that bridge current energy systems with future-ready solutions.

  • Strategy

    Investments in transitional businesses that bridge current energy systems with future-ready solutions.

  • Examples

    – O&G service providers repositioning for renewables – Coastal or offshore infrastructure operators supporting the transition – Hybrid models enabling brown-to-green migration

  • Examples

    – O&G service providers repositioning for renewables – Coastal or offshore infrastructure operators supporting the transition – Hybrid models enabling brown-to-green migration

  • Examples

    – O&G service providers repositioning for renewables – Coastal or offshore infrastructure operators supporting the transition – Hybrid models enabling brown-to-green migration

Get in touch with us

Interested in discussing a project or investing with our team? We are based in London and are happy to meet, or connect with you on a call. We look forward to chatting.

Get in touch with us

Interested in discussing a project or investing with our team? We are based in London and are happy to meet, or connect with you on a call. We look forward to chatting.

Get in touch with us

Interested in discussing a project or investing with our team? We are based in London and are happy to meet, or connect with you on a call. We look forward to chatting.