Boutique Strategic Energy Advisory

Where Capital Meets
Energy Infrastructure
in Latin America

We originate, structure, and execute energy deals across the Americas — connecting investors, developers, operators, and commodity companies with the right opportunities at the right time.

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Deal Architecture & M&A Advisory
Originate, structure, and execute energy transactions across the region.
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Market Intelligence & Strategic Consulting
Deep, on-the-ground insight on Latin American energy markets.
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Business Development & Investor Access
Connect projects with the right capital and the right operators.
About Energy BDO

Built for the Complexity of Latin American Energy

Latin America's energy sector is one of the most dynamic — and most demanding — investment environments in the world. The opportunities are real. So are the barriers: regulatory complexity, information asymmetry, fragmented markets, and a landscape where relationships determine outcomes as much as fundamentals do.

Energy BDO was built to navigate exactly this environment. We are a boutique strategic advisory firm founded by energy professionals with senior careers at ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Vopak, and Primax — across the Middle East and the Americas.

We have sat on both sides of the table: as operators making investment decisions, and as deal architects bringing transactions to life. We don't offer generic advisory. We offer deep market knowledge, a network built over decades, and the ability to move from insight to execution in markets where most advisors are still reading the map.

Energy BDO active coverage map — Americas region
What We Do

Three Ways We Create Value

Deal Architecture & M&A Advisory
We originate, structure, and facilitate transactions across energy infrastructure assets in Latin America — acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. If you are looking to buy, sell, or partner on an energy asset in the region, this is where we start.
Acquisitions Divestitures Joint Ventures Deal Origination
Market Intelligence & Strategic Consulting
Deep, on-the-ground intelligence on Latin American energy markets — supply and demand dynamics, regulatory developments, asset valuations, and sector-specific investment theses. For clients who need to understand a market quickly, accurately, and from a source they can trust.
Expert Consulting Market Analysis Regulatory Intelligence Asset Valuation
Business Development & Investor Access
We connect energy projects with the right capital and the right operators — bridging the gap between asset owners and institutional investors, infrastructure funds, commodity traders, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices with energy mandates across the Americas.
Investor Access Capital Raising Partnership Structuring Deal Facilitation
Sectors
Oil & Gas
Natural Gas & LNG
Terminals & Storage
Fuel Distribution
Commodity Trading
Energy Transition
Strategic Alliance

Kennis Partners Global

The Institutional Capital & Private Markets Platform Powered by Energy BDO. Accelerating Energy Transformation Through Institutional Capital Access and Private Market Structuring.

Kennis Partners Global is Energy BDO's institutional capital and private markets platform designed to connect strategic energy opportunities across Latin America with a network of family offices, private investors, and institutional capital.

Powered by Energy BDO, Kennis Partners Global combines private market expertise, structuring and financing capabilities of critical energy infrastructure to support transaction originations and development of energy opportunities across Latin America.

The platform focuses on identifying high-impact opportunities across the energy value chain and creating institutional pathways between strategic assets, project sponsors and global sources of capital.

Sector Expertise

Kennis Partners Global brings institutional-grade capital access and private market expertise to Latin America's energy and infrastructure ecosystem — structuring and placing deals that fall outside traditional institutional minimums, and connecting them with family offices, private investors, and institutional capital ready to move. Combined with Energy BDO's on-the-ground origination and sector intelligence across the region, the alliance covers the full path from deal origination to capital access.

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Kennis Partners is an independent Private Markets Sponsor Firm focused on originating, structuring and sponsoring institutional investment opportunities across private credit, infrastructure, healthcare, real assets, structured finance and selective M&A transactions.

Through Kennis Private Markets Platform™, we organize sector-focused Sponsored Investment Programs that transform strategic initiatives into institutional investment opportunities, supporting capital formation throughout the investment lifecycle.

Allen Cedeño
Managing Partner | President, Kennis Partners Global — leads the institutional capital and private markets platform behind the alliance. allen.cedeno@kennispartners.com
Allen Cedeño
Alliance Partner
Kennis Partners Global
Private Markets Platform

Institutional capital access, private market structuring, and placement — connecting Latin American energy opportunities with the capital ready to move on them.

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Contact

Let's Talk

Whether you are an investor evaluating an opportunity, a developer seeking capital, an operator looking for a strategic partner, or a fund that needs expert insight on a specific market — we want to hear from you.

Energy deals in Latin America move on relationships and timing. The sooner we talk, the more we can do.

contact@energybdo.com