Founder and managing director, Green Giraffe

Biography

Clément is a founder and managing director of Green Giraffe Advisory and heads the London office, which he founded in 2011 and returned to after heading the Paris office in 2017-19 He coordinates Green Giraffe’s efforts in floating offshore wind and has led multiple transactions in offshore and onshore wind, both on the equity and debt sides. He led the Walney offshore wind debt financing (367 MW, UK, 2012), the Rentel offshore wind senior and mezzanine debt raising (309 MW, BE, 2016), and the Alizé onshore wind portfolio sale (71 MW, FR, 2017). Most recently, Clément closed six development funding transactions in floating offshore wind in California (700 MW, 2018), Hawaii (500 MW, 2018), South Korea (500+ MW, 2019), the United Kingdom (380 MW, 2020), Italy (200 MW, 2020) and Ireland (1,000 MW, 2021) He also developed Green Giraffe’s offtake advisory expertise – among others he supervised the transaction of a large international corporation sourcing all of its European renewable energy electricity Before founding Green Giraffe, he worked at Dexia in Paris in 2008-10 within the project finance team. Prior to that, he spent a year in Beijing at AFD in 2006-07 He graduated from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and holds an MSc in project finance from Université Paris X