AssuranceBox provides investment solutions and advisory services that accelerate decarbonization.
We work with the alternatives investment industry and support private funds, institutional investors, and businesses by providing a mix of consulting services, placement advisory and sponsor-aligned co-investments that deliver strong financial performance and create climate impact value. We work mainly in Asia with extended networks in global markets. More about our services
Services
Consulting Services
Capital deployment planning and advisory support
We advise family offices and institutional investors on industry/market mapping, portfolio reviews and planning, road-map development, emerging manager profiling, and related services to deploy capital into decarbonization-focused fund managers pursuing PE/VC and infrastructure strategies.
Commercial due diligence, investment review, and M&A advisory support to funds and business owners
We are a trusted buy- and sell-side advisor to family offices, institutional asset managers and business/platform sponsors pursuing decarbonization focused business.
Core industries
Decarbonization investments across 5 sectors
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Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain Decarbonization
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Sustainable Agri-Food and Nature-based Solutions
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Energy Transition Technologies and Infrastructure
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Climate Finance and Sustainability-driven Capital Solutions
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Digital Technologies and AI-linked Innovation
Investment Partnerships
Asset Managers, Private Equity, Infrastructure and Real Estate Funds
We support GPs seeking to expand their LP coverage and complement their capital raising distribution channels to pursue decarbonization investment strategies across growth VC, PE, real assets, and infrastructure.
Secondary transactions
We advise GPs and LPs on continuation funds with a focus on Asia market transactions across private equity, real assets, and infrastructure.
Entrepreneurs and platform sponsors
We advise on business planning and securing investment support to finance strategic initiatives including M&A, fund raising, divestments, dividend recaps, collateralization strategies, asset optimizations, and other capital execution support.
About us
AssuranceBox provides investment solutions and advisory services that accelerate decarbonization.
AssuranceBox works with some of the world’s most forward-looking fund managers (ESG driven PE funds, impact funds, credit funds among others), family offices, infrastructure developers, energy and industrial companies and real asset developers that are advancing innovation, resource efficiency and carbon reduction.
The network of clients that we partner with has grown out of the founder’s earlier family office, PE, and PERE investment experience across Asia over the last 2 decades. We work in collaboration with peer advisory and investment firms.
We are headquartered in Singapore and work with a network of senior industry executives and business partners with offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.
AssuranceBox’s engagement model is to work alongside sponsors on long term engagements through the full life cycle of transactions including strategy/planning, capital transactions, and post investment value creation. We also participate as stand-alone transaction focused intermediaries in select projects.
Clients
Recent engagements
Investments and M&A
Port Infrastructure
$46.5M sale of equity in a container port near Surabaya, Indonesia to ICTSI (publicly listed in Manila, global top 5 owner of mid-sized ports) to develop and operate a modern ESG driven container port terminal that addresses logistics infrastructure gaps in East Java, Indonesia.
Fund Investment Solutions
Fund GP Secondary
Advisory to establish a global $10.5B special-situation secondaries PE fund seeded with 9 logistics and distribution businesses (operating in US, Europe and Asia) of a large Chinese conglomerate that was over-leveraged and looking for liquidity solutions. The fund formation transaction was terminated at post term sheet DD stage due to a shift in the conglomerate’s plans.
Decarbonization Strategy Advisory
Advisory Project on Private Investment Opportunities in Cold Chain and Sustainable Infrastructure
Preparation of a pan-Asian sector strategy and road-map for a large multi-lateral financial institution (FI) to invest in sustainable logistics (with a focus on cold chain) and related energy transition sectors. This project is being followed up by a stand-alone PE/PERE fund manager identification program to qualify managers (equity and credit) deploying capital in decarbonization driven logistics, renewable infrastructure (solar, wind, LNG), digital infrastructure, carbon market developers and climate tech innovation funds.
About the team
Paraj Kakkar
DIRECTOR & PARTNER
Paraj has over 22 years of global PE fund investment and M&A experience.
He has served in Managing Director and Operating Partner roles with family offices (Planet Investments and Ventures) and PE funds (Bravia Capital) with mandates that included taking LP positions in fund managers, sourcing and executing syndicated deals and making direct investments in growth and buy-out transactions focused on decarbonization.
He has invested and advised on ticket sizes ranging between $10M-$500M with a portfolio of companies and fund managers across Southeast Asia and South Asia.
He has driven shareholder value creation programs in board roles at investee companies that have delivered significant mark-to-market portfolio value increases and ESG performance improvements.
Alessandro Corbi
PARTNER
Alessandro spent the first 16 years of his career at Swiss private markets firm Partners Group (PG).
Based in Singapore for most his career, he played an instrumental role in PG’s expansion to Asia while also holding various responsibilities related to private fund launches, operational excellence and client servicing. In his last role as Global Head Product Management at PG, he led a global team of 90 spread across Singapore, Manila, Zug and Denver.
In addition to his role at Assurance Box, Alessandro also co-leads a business expansion services family business that assists large overseas corporations and SMEs enter Asia and related new geographies.
Contact us
paraj@assurancebox.com
+65 8533 2171
10 Anson Road
#18-11, International Plaza,
Singapore 079903