Ben Lynch Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London / Paris

CleanTech Capital Advisors is a boutique corporate finance advisory firm, providing financial and strategic advisory services for investors and companies in the CleanTech & Resource Efficiency sector. Over the past decade the firm has advised many of the leading European start-ups in the sector.

London, United Kingdom

Equity research coverage of listed European renewable energy technology companies (solar & wind). Sector-expert driven development of corporate finance and project finance business.

London, UK & Paris, France

• Provided sellside equity research coverage of European renewable energy & cleantech stocks – solar (REC, SolarWorld, SMA Solar, Q-Cells, centrotherm photovoltaics, Meyer Burger, Roth & Rau) and wind (Vestas, Gamesa.
• Assisted corporate finance activities, in particular in solar, wind, biomass subsectors. Successful sale of UK biomass plant.

London, United Kingdom

• Led team of 12 professionals serving technology & renewable energy / cleantech clients
• Lifted firm technology sector banking fee ranking from #9 in 2005 to #2 in 2007
• Landmark deals include largest European technology LBO (NXP Semiconductors, €4.5bn), first technology Eurobond offering (ASML, €600m), IPO SMA Solar (€362m)
• Other transactions: Dialog Semiconductor secondary (650M$ | 2000), ELMOS IPO (400M$ | 1999), Thomson Multimedia IPO (3BN$ | 1999), STMicroelectronics… Show more
• Other transactions: Dialog Semiconductor secondary (650M$ | 2000), ELMOS IPO (400M$ | 1999), Thomson Multimedia IPO (3BN$ | 1999), STMicroelectronics secondary (1.3BN$ | 1998) Show less

London, UK; New York, USA

• Covered US semiconductor companies: including Intel, TI, AMD, Micron, SanDisk. Managed team of 5 and co-ordinated 15-person global team. Runner-up Global Institutional Investor (2004).
• Covered European technology companies: including Philips, Thomson, STM, Infineon, ASML, ARM, EPCOS. Managed team of 4 and co-ordinated 10-person global team. # 1 European Institutional Investor survey (2002), # 2.
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• Core team involvement in numerous landmark transactions: SMIC (China) NYSE listing (1.6BN$ | 2002), largest ever European technology IPO (Infineon, 6.1BN€ | 2000). Show less

Paris Area, France

Strategy advisory for European telecommunications and technology clients.

Duesseldorf, Germany

Technical marketing of electronic solutions to major multinational technology companies in telecommunications, ICT, automotive and consumer electronics sectors.

California, USA

Development of advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes. Member of start-up team for advanced semiconductor fabrication plant.

Mba, Business, Finance

Graduated with Distinction

Ba Bai, Electronic Engineering

Graduated with First Class Honours. Thesis on thin-film photovoltaics.

Education record