Our business investment advisors are drawn from the worlds of investment banking, financial advisory firms, management consulting and Arup’s own extensive engineering and technical teams. This powerful combination enables us to provide a fully integrated service that assists clients in making evidenced based decisions around managing risks and optimising returns. As built environment practitioners, we are able to support clients at all stages of the asset life cycle from policy setting, strategy formulation, planning and feasibility, to commercialisation, construction, operation and exit. 

How we can help you

Financial advice

Our commercial and financial advisory service helps clients to make better informed investment decisions.

Financial advice

Our commercial and financial experts help clients to make better informed investment decisions, drawing on Arup’s deep technical understanding of infrastructure assets and translating this knowledge into value creation and return maximisation.

As we understand the needs of project sponsors, investors and lenders, we provide a unique perspective that enables the economic and financial implications of an investment to be aligned with target environmental, social and technical outcomes. 

Our services include:

  • Financial modelling and analysis
  • Deal and capital structuring
  • Financing strategy and fundraise, including green and sustainable financing options (see also, Sustainable Investment Advisory)
  • M&A advice
  • Business case and investment case development
  • Business plans and strategy, working with our strategy consulting team

Economics and policy

As practitioners across the built environment, we have developed deep expertise in relevant policy, regulation and markets.

Economics and policy

As practitioners across the built environment, we have developed deep expertise in relevant policy, regulation and markets, resulting in financial insight complemented by Arup’s wider technical experience.

We support organisations, investors, regulators, and governments on a wide range of economic and policy advice, supported by both quantitative and qualitative techniques, and focused on ensuring evidence-based decision making.

Our economists provide advice on:

  • Price setting and regulation, including the increasing impact of policy response associated to climate change
  • Business cases and investment case-making for major infrastructure
  • Economic and financial modelling
  • Developing new business models and working with our financial advisory capability to support business restructuring and strategy formulation
  • Economic positioning of urban and economic zones

Technical, ESG and commercial due diligence

Our insights identify risks, reveal opportunities and provide valuable advice about how an asset might be improved and risks managed.

Technical, ESG and commercial due diligence

As a leading global technical transaction advisor, our dedicated team of due diligence experts are focused on ensuring our clients gain a deep understanding of the technical, organisational, commercial, regulatory and ESG context of their proposed investments.

Our insights identify risks, reveal opportunities and provide valuable advice about how an asset might be improved and risks managed, driving better returns.

We offer support to investors and lenders in the context of acquisitions and divestments of individual assets, portfolios, and businesses:

  • Buy-side technical due diligence
  • Sell-side technical due diligence
  • Lenders’ technical advice
  • ESG due diligence

Find out more about our ESG strategy, reporting and investment services.

Procurement advisory

We provide strategic, procurement, technical and financial advice to public entities procuring public-private partnership and other delivery methods.  

Procurement advisory

We provide strategic, procurement, technical and financial advice to public entities procuring public-private partnership and other delivery methods.  

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs or P3s) are an effective way of procuring public service infrastructure and leveraging private sector know-how and capital.  When thoughtfully structured, they can offer whole-of-life cost certainty, better risk management and value for money outcomes.

From feasibility and market engagement, through procurement, negotiations and financial close to construction, operations and handback; we provide advice informed by our deep sector and market knowledge. 

Arup offers a full suite of advisory support, including:

  • Business cases / feasibility studies
  • Public sector comparator and shadow bid modelling
  • Developing payment mechanisms
  • Financial modelling
  • Risk workshops and registers
  • Value for money analysis
  • PPP / P3 deal structuring
  • Preparation of tender documents
  • Running tender processes and evaluation
  • Bid-side financial / commercial advice