GA Actis Associate, SPV Management

About Actis

In October 2024, General Atlantic acquired Actis, which now operates as its Sustainable Infrastructure business alongside its existing strategies in Growth Equity, Credit, and Climate. Actis is a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, delivering competitive returns for institutional investors and measurable positive impact for the countries, cities and communities in which it operates. Actis invests in structural themes that support long-term, equitable growth in defensive, critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitalization transition, and supply chain transformation. The firm’s decades of global experience, operational know-how and strong culture allows it to create global sustainability leaders at scale. Since inception, Actis has raised $26 billion to invest in a better tomorrow. Actis is a signatory to the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), an investor initiative developed by the UNEP FI. The firm has consistently been awarded the highest rating score in the UNPRI independent assessment. You can learn more about Actis at www.act.is.

Purpose of the Role

• Support Actis in the tracking, monitoring, and operation of acquisition structures (Special Purpose Vehicles "SPVs") in respect of Actis investments. Main responsibility will be to coordinate workflows with internal and external parties, ensuring fulfilment of all regulatory obligations and filings, and monitoring and maintenance of corporate governance documentation.
• Drive adherence to SPV Governance protocols and policies across a varying set of stakeholders.
• Support the Director of SPV Governance across range of critical tasks and projects on a companywide visible project.

Responsibilities 

• Support formation of companies:
  • Working with deal teams, tax, service providers, etc. in relevant jurisdictions to make sure investment companies are set up as appropriate.
• Collaborating with deal teams:
  • Make sure they follow procedures, protocols to preserve regulatory and tax integrity of SPVs.
  • Making sure deals are approved as per Actis standards (appropriate paperwork in place, etc.)
  • Providing recommendations to SPV boards on topics such as DAFs, etc.
  • Liaising with the service providers on topics such as dealing with auditors, banks, etc.
• Board briefings:
  • Prepare and organize board briefings at regular intervals
  • Work with wide variety of stakeholders to capture and collate inputs to briefings.
  • Co-ordinate across all relevant stakeholders in relation to review and approval of briefing content prior to sharing with respective Board members.
• Portfolio Management:
  • Working with deal teams to support portfolio management activities from a SPV Governance perspective
• Relationships Management: <