Goldenhill International M&A Advisors today announced that it acted as exclusive M&A advisor to South Pole Group, in the recently completed minority investment by Lightrock, a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs and committed to innovation for systemic change at scale. South Pole Group, develops and implements comprehensive emission reduction projects and strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organisations around the world.

Lightrock’s investment in South Pole Group is motivated by the growing urgency to meet the climate crisis. Both companies, as leaders in their fields, recognise that scaled up action is required to avoid irrecoverable damage to people and the planet, and wish to take advantage of the enormous market opportunity that investment into a low-carbon economy offers.