Private Capital & Lending
Capital should fit the project.
Credible project assumptions, a capital structure that matches them, a sponsor prepared to be underwritten, and a process that survives diligence. That sequence is the work — and this page is careful about which capacity we are in while doing it.
Figure — Engagement boundary
What sits inside the engagement, and what deliberately sits outside it.
Inside the engagement
- Project capitalisation strategy set against the real development and construction schedule
- Sources-and-uses review and funding-status reconciliation, source by source
- Sponsor readiness: track-record presentation, governance, entity structure and reporting capability
- Lender-package readiness: the record set a lender or equity partner expects, and what is missing
- Scenario and sensitivity organisation around the assumptions that actually move the outcome
Outside it
- Securities placement, investor introductions or solicitation
- Negotiating a transaction on your behalf
- Any fee tied to a capital raise or a closed transaction
- Legal, tax, appraisal or accounting determinations
- A guaranteed raise, a committed lender, a funding promise or access to a predetermined investor list
Who this serves
- Sponsors and owners preparing to raise debt or equity for a specific project
- Landowners considering a joint venture rather than an outright sale
- Family offices and operators who need a capitalisation plan reviewed before committing
- Borrowers whose lender has asked for materials they do not yet have
- Private investors and lenders who want to understand how we work before anything specific
Problems addressed
- A budget and schedule that cannot be defended line by line
- Capital structure chosen before the project's real requirements were known
- Sponsor governance, reporting and decision rights left undefined
- Diligence materials scattered, inconsistent or missing entirely
- Carry and contingency ignored through the approval period
- Funding gap discovered after commitments were already made
Scope
- Project capitalisation strategy set against the real development and construction schedule
- Sources-and-uses review and funding-status reconciliation, source by source
- Sponsor readiness: track-record presentation, governance, entity structure and reporting capability
- Lender-package readiness: the record set a lender or equity partner expects, and what is missing
- Scenario and sensitivity organisation around the assumptions that actually move the outcome
- Capital-stack alternatives and the trade-offs each one imposes
- Governance, authority and decision-rights framework between the parties
- Diligence-room structure and ongoing reporting process after close
Work products
- Assumptions register with the source of each assumption named
- Missing-records list
- Sources and uses, with funding status by source
- Capital-stack alternatives memo
- Lender and investor readiness review
- Governance and reporting calendar
- Executive recommendation on the capital plan
Work product
Assumptions register with the source of each assumption named
Work product
Missing-records list
Work product
Sources and uses, with funding status by source
Work product
Capital-stack alternatives memo
Work product
Lender and investor readiness review
Work product
Governance and reporting calendar
Work product
Executive recommendation on the capital plan
Covers shown for illustration. Each document is written for one project and is not published; no figures, dates, signatures or project details are shown.
How a mandate starts
Step 1: A first conversation about the project, the decision in front of you and who holds control.
Step 2: A fit review: whether this is a professional mandate, a principal or joint-venture discussion, or neither.
Step 3: A paid diagnostic or a scoped mandate, with deliverables, timing and compensation written down before work begins.
Step 4: Work proceeds against the agreed scope. Any change of scope is agreed separately, in writing.
Records we request after an initial fit conversation
- Current budget, schedule and pro forma with the assumptions behind them
- Sources and uses as it stands today, including anything only verbally agreed
- Entity structure, governance documents and existing partner agreements
- Any lender or investor correspondence, term sheets or diligence lists received
- Prior reporting you have produced to lenders, investors or a board
Nothing on this list is collected on the public site. It is requested directly, only once both sides agree the work is a fit.
The roles we are hired into
Each role below is a seat an owner or sponsor engages us to hold, with what that seat is accountable for. Authority exists only to the extent a written engagement grants it.
Capitalisation strategist
Engaged to set the capital plan against the real development and construction schedule, before a structure is chosen and committed to.
Accountable for
- An assumptions register with the source of each assumption named
- Sources and uses reconciled by source, separating funded from assumed
- Capital-stack alternatives with the trade-offs each one imposes on the owner
- A written recommendation on the capital plan, including when the answer is to wait
Sponsor readiness lead
Engaged to prepare the sponsor to be underwritten: structure, governance, reporting capability and how the track record is presented.
Accountable for
- Entity structure, governance and decision rights documented between the parties
- Reporting capability a lender or equity partner can rely on after close
- Track-record presentation that is accurate and supportable line by line
- A candid readiness review, including what is not yet ready
Lender-package lead
Engaged to build the record set a lender or equity partner expects, and to name what is missing before diligence finds it.
Accountable for
- A missing-records list, maintained until it is closed
- Diligence-room structure and document control
- Scenario and sensitivity organisation around the assumptions that move the outcome
- Responses to a lender's diligence list assembled from the project record
Governance and reporting lead
Engaged after close to hold the reporting calendar and the authority framework the capital agreement assumes.
Accountable for
- A governance and reporting calendar the parties agreed in writing
- Reporting produced on cadence, to the standard the agreement requires
- Draw and funding-status reconciliation through the funding period
- Escalation when an assumption behind the capital plan stops holding
Who holds this work
This discipline is held by a named principal. Prior experience described on his own profile is attributed to him and to the entity that employed or contracted him at the time — it is not a Threefold track record.
Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Felipe Soares
Principal | Capital, Strategy & Partnerships
Felipe's discipline is capital, strategy and partnerships. His work focuses on the investment thesis, underwriting questions, capitalization, acquisitions, sponsor alignment and the relationships needed to move an opportunity toward a defensible decision.
His scope
- Capital structure and formation strategy
- Investor, lender and partner relationships
- Commercial terms and partnership structuring
He also holds
The partner named here reads the enquiry for this service himself. Naming a partner is not a guarantee of his personal availability, and no engagement exists until it is agreed in writing.
What we require to take the role
- A written engagement with scope, deliverables, timing and a fee set by scope — never tied to a raise or a closing
- The sponsor or owner retains every capital decision; we prepare, review and recommend
- Access to the budget, schedule, pro forma, sources and uses and the assumptions behind them, including anything only verbally agreed
- Entity, governance and existing partner agreements, and any lender or investor correspondence received
- Acceptance that we do not raise, place, solicit or introduce capital, and hold no investor or lender list
- Separate written disclosure before any discussion in which Threefold might participate as a principal instead
These are conditions of the engagement, agreed in writing before work begins. Where one of them is missing, establishing it is usually the first piece of work rather than a reason to decline.
Which capacity applies
These are different things with different obligations. Which one applies is stated in writing before work or money moves.
Threefold's own principal decisions
When Threefold participates as a principal — acquisition, co-development, landowner JV or a negotiated sponsor role — capital decisions are our own, made for our own account under a signed transaction agreement. We are not acting as your advisor in that capacity.
Professional capital-readiness services
Engaged by you, for a defined scope and fee: strategy, readiness, materials, governance, process and reporting. We hold no authority beyond the engagement, and no compensation is tied to a raise or a closing.
Capital or lending provided by a separately contracted firm
If capital or lending is actually provided by another firm — including any firm affiliated with a principal — you contract with that firm directly under its own agreement, and the relationship and any interest held is disclosed to you in writing. No such firm is named on this site and nothing here commits anyone to fund anything.
Regulated securities and brokerage activity
Raising, placing, offering or soliciting capital for another party is regulated activity. It is not offered through this website in any capacity, and no ordinary website wording should be read as offering it.
Outside the default scope
- Securities placement, investor introductions or solicitation
- Negotiating a transaction on your behalf
- Any fee tied to a capital raise or a closed transaction
- Legal, tax, appraisal or accounting determinations
- A guaranteed raise, a committed lender, a funding promise or access to a predetermined investor list
Held back until approved in writing
None of the following is claimed, offered or implied anywhere on this site today:
- Any claim to arrange, place, source or secure debt or equity for a third party
- Any implication of guaranteed financing, committed funds or capital available to deploy
- An active public offering, subscription, allocation or wire instruction of any kind
- Investor or lender introductions, referrals or access to a capital network
- Success fees, placement fees, finder fees or any transaction-linked compensation
- Co-sponsor, co-GP or sponsor-of-record titles used to describe third-party service work
- Minimum investment, target return, capital available, check size or financing approval figures
- Named third-party lenders, funds, investors or affiliated firms, and any credential implying their endorsement
Which route fits you
You are the sponsor or owner
You need a capital plan reviewed, strengthened or built. Start with a project discussion — this is a professional mandate, not an investment application.
You are bringing a project or a joint venture
You control land or a deal and want Threefold to look at it as a principal or partner. Submit it for a first look — no fee to be considered.
You are an investor or lender
You deploy debt or equity and want to understand how Threefold works. That is a relationship conversation, held privately.
You are unsure which applies
Describe the situation in plain terms and we will tell you which route fits, including when the answer is that none of them do.
Related reading
Private lending readiness
The eleven documents a lender asks for after the term sheet
The eleven document categories a lender almost always requests after issuing a term sheet, what each one has to prove, and how to tell whether you are ready for diligence.
9 min read · reviewed by Robert K. Bishop
Selling land, projects or incomplete developments
Sell the land or contribute it to a joint venture?
How landowners should compare an outright sale with an option, a staged closing or a landowner joint venture — and the questions that decide it.
8 min read
Related resource
Brief
Capital Readiness Brief
What a capital counterparty tests before anything else: control, approvals, cost basis, delivery capability, governance and the honesty of the assumptions behind the numbers.
Open and downloadGeneral working material, not advice on a specific project. The document downloads directly; an email copy is optional.
Related pages
Capital FAQs
Common sponsor questions on process, timelines and what a first look needs.
Capital Partners
Private investors and lenders beginning a relationship. No offering, no terms.
Investments & joint ventures
Where Threefold participates as a principal rather than a service provider.
Affiliated & specialist services
How separately contracted firms and regulated activity are handled.
Advisory & Consulting
One defined question answered in writing, where a standing engagement is not what is needed.
Questions we are asked
- Will you raise the money?
- No. Third-party capital work here is strategy, readiness, materials, governance and reporting. Raising, placing or soliciting capital for another sponsor is a separate regulated activity that is not offered on this site.
- Do you lend, or does an affiliated firm lend?
- Nothing on this site offers or commits capital or a loan. If lending is ever provided by a separately contracted firm, that firm contracts with you directly, under its own agreement and disclosures, and the relationship is disclosed to you in writing first.
- Do you have a lender or investor list?
- Nothing of that kind is offered or implied. Any introduction of any sort would require a counsel-approved structure and appropriately authorized parties.
- How is a fee set?
- By scope, in a written agreement, before work starts. No compensation is tied to a capital raise or a closed transaction.
- Would Threefold invest in my project instead?
- Possibly, case by case, and through a separate route. Acquisition, co-development and landowner joint ventures are considered on their merits. No structure described here is a standing funded product, and submitting a project buys nothing and obligates no one.
- How does this differ from your own projects?
- On a Threefold principal project, capital strategy is our own decision-making. For another sponsor, it is professional work with a defined scope, and we hold no authority beyond what the engagement grants.
- What do you need from me to begin?
- Whatever exists today, and an honest account of what does not. Missing records are a normal starting condition, and 'unknown' is an acceptable answer.
Third-party capital work is capitalisation strategy, readiness, materials, governance, process and reporting. Introductions, solicitation, placement and transaction-linked compensation require a counsel-approved structure and appropriately authorized parties, and are not offered here. A 'co-GP' or 'consultant' label does not change that. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, a commitment to lend or fund, or a representation that financing is available or approved.
This page is written from the approved strategy plan and remains review-pending until the final approved practice copy is issued.