Industrial & maritime assets
Economic modelling and execution support across reverse-logistics and industrial asset-lifecycle projects, including data-driven estimation of recoverable material.
Independent financial engineering · Real assetsStructuring capital for complex real-asset opportunities.
Independent financial engineering, valuation and strategic advisory across infrastructure, energy, industrial assets and special situations.
10+ years
across financial markets and real assets
Selected projects
in industrial and reverse-logistics asset lifecycles
30,000+ t
of steel recovered or managed across projects
Cross-sector
infrastructure, mining, energy and special situations
Figures reflect cumulative professional experience across engagements and projects.
CredentialsExecuted Advisory Opinion Development Advisory
Selected credentials
Representative engagements, anonymised where confidentiality applies. Client names, contractual values and protected documents are not disclosed.
Large-scale real estate & infrastructure
Economic and financial assessment of a complex land-development opportunity, including feasibility and present-value analysis under conservative assumptions.
Mining & structured finance
Technical assessment of royalty, debenture and cash-flow structures backed by real assets, prepared to support decision-making and negotiation.
Energy transition
Development and evaluation of projects involving sustainable fuels, carbon markets and industrial decarbonisation, from screening to structuring.
Fintech & digital platforms
Strategic and financial structuring for payments and digital-finance infrastructure, including business-model and go-to-market analysis.
Engagements are described at a level that preserves client confidentiality. Specific details are shared under NDA.
Capabilities
Capabilities
Six areas of practice, applied to capital-intensive real assets.
01
Capital structuring
Debt, equity and hybrid instruments, project finance, SPVs, securitisation and structured solutions.
02
Valuation & technical opinions
DCF, FCFF, scenario and feasibility analysis, fairness assessment and technical economic-financial opinions.
03
Strategic & transaction advisory
Business development, transaction support, negotiation, capital raising and investor materials.
04
Special situations
Complex assets, distressed opportunities, reorganisations, monetisation and non-standard transactions.
05
Decision analytics
Multicriteria analysis, risk and sensitivity testing, probabilistic scenarios, econometrics and data-supported decisions.
06
Asset monetisation & tokenisation
Real-world assets, economic rights, royalties and receivables, digital structuring and supporting documentation.
Sectors
Sector focus
Infrastructure & ports
Energy transition
Mining & industrial assets
Decommissioning & circular economy
Real estate & data infrastructure
Carbon markets
Financial & digital platforms
Real-world assets
Approach
Approach & governance
A traceable process from screening to execution support.
- 01
Opportunity screening
Initial assessment of fit, scale and viability.
- 02
Data room & information review
Structured review of the available information base.
- 03
Economic & financial modelling
Models built on explicit, traceable assumptions.
- 04
Scenario & risk analysis
Sensitivity and scenario testing under uncertainty.
- 05
Structuring alternatives
Capital and transaction options, with trade-offs made explicit.
- 06
Decision memo or technical opinion
A documented basis for decision-making.
- 07
Transaction & execution support
Support through negotiation and execution.
Principles
- Traceable assumptions and documentation control
- Sensitivity and scenario testing
- Confidentiality and conflict-of-interest awareness
- Explicit technical limitations and scope
- Decision-making under uncertainty; no guarantee of future results
Leadership
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Gabriel Gouveia Magalhães
Founder & Managing Partner
Gabriel Gouveia Magalhães is the Founder and Managing Partner of GOUCAP. He works across financial structuring, valuation, infrastructure, industrial assets, energy transition and special situations.
His background combines financial markets, private capital, business development and applied economic and financial engineering. He holds a degree in Business Administration from IBMEC-Rio, an MBA in Economic and Financial Engineering from UFF, Executive Education in Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance from Harvard Kennedy School, and is an MSc candidate in Industrial Engineering at PUC-Rio.
His analytical work incorporates valuation, decision analysis, multicriteria methods, econometrics, data science and risk assessment applied to complex real-asset opportunities. He holds an active professional registration with CRA-RJ.
Insights
Insights
Research notes and perspectives on real assets, valuation and decision science.
Publications will be listed here. To discuss a specific topic, get in touch.
Contact
Discuss a mandate
Confidential discussions on transactions, valuations and structuring engagements.