Executive Search - New York

The grid behindglobal capital.

Executive search across investment banking, private equity, private credit and the funds and asset managers behind infrastructure and renewables. A New York desk, wired into the capital that finances the assets the world runs on.

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The firm

Black Grid Partners is a specialist search firm for the most capital-intensive corners of finance. We work on a deliberately small number of senior mandates, for the banks, funds, credit and asset managers moving billions into infrastructure and the energy transition: power, renewables, and the deals and debt behind them.

Specialist focusSenior onlyNew YorkDiscretion as default
Why a specialist

A generalist knows the market. A specialist knows the people.

The generalist's search

Covers every sector from one desk. Runs the same keyword searches, works the same lists, and sends you the names already circulating on every other desk in town. You get a shortlist of whoever was available - not whoever was right.

Ours

We have spent our careers inside infrastructure and renewables finance. We know who is genuinely good, who is quietly ready to move, who is overrated, and who has never once appeared on a job board. We do not sell you a database. We sell you judgment.

Every name comes with a point of view: the case for them, the risk beside it, and the reason they will take the call.

Truly Global

One desk. A global network.

Capital and infrastructure don't respect borders, and neither do our searches. From a single New York desk we run mandates into the hubs where the deals are done - and we know the people who move between them.

New YorkLondonFrankfurtAbu DhabiSingaporeHong KongTorontoSão Paulo
Practice Coverage

Across the capital stack. One specialism.

Investment banking, private equity, private credit and the asset managers and funds behind infrastructure and renewables: project finance, M&A and structured debt across the energy transition.

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Investment Banking

Project finance and M&A teams across infrastructure and renewables: coverage, execution and structured financing, from VP to Managing Director.

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Private Equity

Deal and operating professionals for funds investing into infrastructure and renewables: buy-side M&A, project finance and structured equity across the energy transition.

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Private Credit

Origination, underwriting and portfolio management for infrastructure and energy-transition debt: direct lending, project debt and structured credit.

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Asset Managers & Funds

Investment, fundraising and portfolio leadership for the platforms and funds deploying capital into infrastructure and renewables.

Project FinanceM&AStructured EquityPrivate CreditDirect LendingFundraising & IRPortfolio Leadership
Selected Mandates

A record built in confidence.

Managing Director, Infrastructure Coverage

Global investment bank

Investment BankingNew York9 weeks

Partner, Energy Transition

Mid-market private equity platform

Private EquityLondon12 weeks

Head of Origination, Infrastructure Debt

Global asset manager

Private CreditNew York10 weeks

Managing Director, Capital Formation

Renewables-focused fund

Asset ManagementSingapore11 weeks

Client names withheld by policy. Full references available under NDA.

"We place the people financing infrastructure and the energy transition - before the market knows the seat is open."

By the numbers
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Core disciplines
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Senior-level
Global
Coverage
Discreet
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Approach

A search is mapped before it is run.

01Mapping

The whole market, first

We chart every relevant operator for a role before approaching anyone. You see the landscape - not a shortlist of whoever was available.

02Approach

Senior and off-market

The best people are never looking. We reach them directly, discreetly, and on the strength of a conversation worth their time.

03Assessment

A case, not a CV

Structured, evidence-based evaluation against the mandate. We present the argument for every candidate and the risks alongside it.

04Close

The placement holds

We manage the offer, the counter and the move. A search is only successful when the hire is still there a year later.

Clients

Trusted on the searches that matter most.

"They mapped the entire market before a single approach. We saw the landscape, not a list - and hired someone we'd never have reached ourselves."
Managing Director · Infrastructure & Renewables Fund
"Discreet, fast, and genuinely senior. The shortlist was four names, and any of the four could have done the job."
Portfolio Manager · Infrastructure Debt Fund
"The only search firm that talks about our space like an insider rather than a vendor placing roles by the dozen."
Head of Project Finance · Renewables Developer
"A year on, the hire is still here and still excelling. That's the only metric that counts, and they delivered it."
CIO · Private Capital, New York
Insights

A view from inside the market.

All insights
For clients

A partner, not a CV vendor.

We take few mandates and treat each as the only one. You get a principal on the phone, a mapped market, and a search you can stake your reputation on.

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For candidates

We only call when it matters.

A conversation with Black Grid is confidential, considered, and worth your time. No spray-and-pray, no role you've already seen three times this month.

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