About Us

The Lagoa Group advises high-impact projects and businesses seeking capital, clarity, and trusted execution. We work with founders, developers, and operators to prepare their ventures for institutional engagement, ensuring each opportunity is structured and positioned for serious capital consideration.

Born from decades of cross-border experience, Lagoa bridges the language, cultural, and operational gaps that often separate local opportunity from global capital. What began as a small advisory has evolved into a discreet, high-performance boutique helping founders, operators, and asset owners turn potential into performance.

Our ethos is grounded in discipline and diplomacy, bringing institutional standards to entrepreneurial environments while maintaining the agility and trust that true partnerships demand. We act not as intermediaries, but as long-term partners, aligning interests, simplifying complexity, and building relationships that last beyond the deal.

Success, for us, is built on preparation, integrity, and follow-through — values that define every engagement and every result.

Our Focus

Lagoa operates at the intersection of capital, structure, and execution, transforming complex opportunities into institutional-grade transactions.

We focus on opportunities where disciplined preparation, governance, and capital design generate measurable impact across sectors:

🟦 Corporate & Growth Capital — Strategic funding for established companies and operating ventures seeking scale, expansion, or recapitalization.

🟧 Real Assets & Infrastructure — Development-stage and brownfield projects in energy, logistics, data centers, agriculture, and other asset-backed sectors.

🟩 Development & Construction — Structuring and oversight for land-secured or build-to-suit developments, ensuring project viability and investor readiness.

🟪 Structured Credit & Special Situations — Complex opportunities involving receivables, arbitral awards, precatórios, distressed assets, and litigation-linked recoveries.

Across every mandate, our objective remains the same: clarity, structure, and execution that stand up to institutional scrutiny.

Our Approach

Every successful engagement follows a defined path grounded in readiness, precision, and execution.
We focus on quality over quantity, working selectively with projects that demonstrate clear potential to close efficiently and perform at institutional standards.

1. Qualification

We begin by assessing the opportunity’s fundamentals, verifying documentation, structure, governance, and commercial viability.
Our goal is to confirm readiness, identify any gaps, and define the optimal capital strategy before engagement begins.

For operating or development projects, this includes:
• Capital Structure — Target raise size, structure (equity, debt, or hybrid), and founder participation.
• Use of Proceeds — Clear allocation of capital for expansion, acquisition, working capital, or restructuring.
• Readiness Milestones — Feasibility, traction, licenses, and documentation confirming execution viability.

For credit and special situations, readiness is defined by:
• Asset Quality — Underlying receivables, judgments, or instruments forming the basis of value.
• Documentation Integrity — Legal enforceability, counterparty standing, and claim validation.
• Recovery Structure — Collateral, guarantees, or contractual mechanisms that support liquidity and protection.

2. Structuring

Once qualified, we organize financial, legal, and operational elements into a coherent, investor-ready framework.
This includes capital strategy design, transaction modeling, and stakeholder alignment to ensure consistency from presentation through execution.

3. Positioning

We craft the institutional narrative, integrating strategy, documentation, and data into a cohesive, credible investment story.
Our objective is to ensure each opportunity communicates clarity, confidence, and measurable value to the right partners.

4. Closing

We coordinate next steps and relationships toward a successful close, maintaining structure, communication, and discipline throughout.
Every mandate concludes with a tangible outcome: a transaction positioned to perform in front of serious capital.