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GOUCAPIndependent financial engineering · Real assets

Financial engineering for capital decisions in complex assets.

Structuring, valuation and decision support for infrastructure, industrial assets and special situations—grounded in explicit assumptions and documented analysis.

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When the decision calls for financial engineering

Structure capital or financing

Debt, equity or hybrid alternatives with documented assumptions and trade-offs.

Decide on investment, feasibility or CAPEX

Economic-financial model, scenarios and a documented decision basis.

Obtain a valuation or independent opinion

Appraisal or technical opinion framed by scope, information and limitations.

Navigate a special situation or transaction

Structuring and negotiation support within an explicit mandate.

Initial discussions are confidential and used to qualify context, information and scope.

Applied experience

Selected work

From financial analysis to operations: technical opinions, valuations and ventures developed throughout the founder’s professional career.

Technical opinions & valuations

AI-generated illustration of an industrial complex; not a photograph of Minas-Rio.
AI-generated illustration. Not a depiction of the Minas-Rio asset.

Mining · Structured finance

Minas-Rio

Technical opinion on debenture/royalty cash flows.

Review of the internal consistency and assumptions of an FCFF model for flows associated with the financial instrument.

Estimated present value of instrument-related flows under the opinion’s conservative scenario.
US$386.5m

The figure refers to the analysed instrument, not the value of the Minas-Rio asset.

Scope & context — Minas-Rio
Role
Economic-financial analysis, model review and preparation of the technical opinion.
Deliverable
Technical opinion on debenture/royalty cash flows.
Evidence basis
Review of the FCFF model and the information provided; the estimated present value refers to the opinion’s conservative scenario.
Availability
Documentary evidence available under NDA, subject to relevance and confidentiality obligations.

The scope is limited to the model and information provided. The opinion is not a valuation of the mine, an independent audit or an investment recommendation.

Institutional reference
Discuss a project — Minas-Rio
Illustration of the Smart City Açu master plan, as published in the founder’s portfolio.
Master plan illustration. Not a photograph of a completed development.

Urban development · Infrastructure

Smart City Açu

Economic-financial modelling and appraisal.

Work undertaken through GOUCAP to assess the feasibility of a planned urban development in the Açu region.

Projected NPV for the landowner and Master Developer in the referenced work.
R$837m

Financial projection, not realised revenue or capital raised.

Scope & context — Smart City Açu
Role
Cash-flow modelling, scenario analysis and technical appraisal through GOUCAP.
Deliverable
Economic-financial modelling and appraisal to assess the urban development’s feasibility.
Evidence basis
Referenced work in the founder’s public portfolio, with projected NPV for the landowner and Master Developer.
Availability
Documentary evidence available under NDA, subject to relevance and confidentiality obligations.

The public portfolio also reports nominal projected GDV of approximately R$11.66 billion. GDV and NPV are different measures; both are projections from the referenced work.

Institutional reference
Discuss a project — Smart City Açu

The founder’s operating & venture experience

Executive experience in building and operating businesses, presented separately from advisory engagements.

GSR operational photograph of equipment processing steel structures.
Operational photograph published by GSR.

Circular economy · Industrial assets

GSR

Naval reverse logistics and industrial execution.

Leadership experience across decommissioning operations, waste management and material recovery.

Materials recovered, as reported in GSR’s institutional track record.
30,000+ t

An operating metric for GSR, not GOUCAP assets under management.

Scope & context — GSR
Role
Founder and executive leadership across successive project cycles.
Deliverable
Leadership across decommissioning operations, waste management and material recovery.
Evidence basis
GSR’s institutional track record, which reports recovered materials and 25 completed projects.

GSR’s website reports 25 completed projects. This experience connects planning, field operations and material destination management.

Institutional reference
Discuss a project — GSR
Historical Marbank mobile product artifact; the venture is concluded.
Historical Marbank product. Concluded venture.

Fintech · Venture building

Marbank

Building a digital financial operation.

Entrepreneurial experience spanning brand, product, app, website and account infrastructure, with actual operations.

Operating period. Concluded venture.
2023–2024

Historical experience. This page does not offer current Marbank accounts or services.

Scope & context — Marbank
Role
Founder; led product development and digital infrastructure delivery.
Deliverable
Development of the brand, product, app, website and account infrastructure.
Evidence basis
Historical case presented in the founder’s public portfolio; operating period of 2023–2024.

A historical case of building and operating a fintech. The image documents the product developed at the time, not a currently available banking interface.

Institutional reference
Discuss a project — Marbank

Model values do not represent assets under management, capital raised or realised returns. GSR and Marbank are presented as the founder’s business experience; roles and operating periods are identified for each case.

Capabilities

Capabilities

Four disciplines applied where capital structure, asset economics and execution intersect.

Capital structuring

Debt, equity and hybrid alternatives, project finance, SPVs and structured solutions.

Valuation & technical opinions

DCF, FCFF, feasibility, scenario analysis and documented economic-financial opinions.

Strategic & transaction advisory

Decision materials, negotiation support and transaction structuring within an explicit mandate.

Decision & risk analytics

Sensitivity testing, probabilistic scenarios and multicriteria analysis for decisions under uncertainty.

Sectors

Sector focus

Selective focus on capital-intensive and operationally complex contexts.

Infrastructure & ports
Mining & industrial assets
Energy transition & circular economy
Complex real-asset situations
Approach

Approach & governance

Five stages, from qualification to execution support.

  1. 01

    Opportunity qualification

    Fit, decision context, information needs and mandate boundaries.

  2. 02

    Information review

    Structured review of the available data, documents and assumptions.

  3. 03

    Modelling & scenarios

    Economic-financial analysis with traceable assumptions, sensitivities and risks.

  4. 04

    Alternatives & decision record

    Capital or transaction alternatives documented with explicit trade-offs.

  5. 05

    Negotiation & execution support

    Support through counterpart discussions and the agreed execution scope.

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
Gabriel Gouveia Magalhães, Founder & Managing Partner

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.

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Credentials

Education & Executive Education

Business judgment grounded in management, engineering and decision science.

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PUC-Rio

MSc candidate in Industrial Engineering

Concentration in Operations and Business in Engineering; analytical rigour, modelling and decision-making under uncertainty.

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UFF

MBA in Economic and Financial Engineering

Economic engineering, valuation, project feasibility and applied investment analysis.

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Ibmec

Bachelor of Business Administration

Corporate foundations, business finance and the language of capital markets.

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Harvard Kennedy School

Executive Education · Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance

Investment judgment, behavioural biases and decision-making in complex contexts.

Academic & professional identity

ORCID0009-0001-2760-7545Lattes CVCNPq
Professional registrationAdministrator · CRA-RJ

Additional international education in English and Leadership & Management in Sydney, Australia.

Contact

Discuss a mandate

Share the context, decision and timing. GOUCAP will respond directly.

gabriel@goucap.comLinkedIn — GOUCAP

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