Waban Partners

Independent Strategic, Financial & Capital Advisory

Solutions focused partner for fast growing companies

Leveraging top tier investment banking rigor and experience to be a value creation and growth partner for companies where energy, infrastructure and technology meet.

Utility-scale solar farm on a sunny day
Robotic arms and connected machinery on a bright factory floor
Woven carbon fiber fabric running through rollers in a bright advanced materials plant
Rows of server racks with fiber cabling in an AI compute hall

$50BN+

transactions advised & executed

20+ years

advising C-suites, boards & investors

150+

strategic and financing transactions

What We Do

Full suite of advisory services for founders, management teams, boards and investors.

Sector Expertise

Global experience across energy, decarbonization, infrastructure and industrial technology, spanning the value chain across materials, hardware, services and software.

Experience includes:

Advanced Materials

Climate & Energy Technologies

Critical Minerals & Metals

Data Centers & AI Infrastructure

Decarbonization Solutions

Industrial IoT

Renewable Energy & Energy Storage

Software & Services

About Us

Julie Bennett Bunuan, Founder & Managing Partner

Julie Bennett Bunuan

Founder & Managing Partner

Julie is a trusted strategic advisor to companies and investors on strategic alternatives, capital structure, capital raising, capital markets, and debt financing. She has executed over $50 billion of transactions across M&A, IPOs, and debt and equity financings. Her extensive global experience spans across industries, with a particular focus on the intersection of energy, technology and infrastructure.

Julie brings clients deep corporate finance and capital markets expertise, cross-border execution experience, and an extensive network of relationships with companies, VCs, institutional investors, banks, family offices and other financial partners.

She established the Climate Technology Investment Banking team at Truist Securities, a leading advisory partner to the sector, and she held senior corporate finance advisory roles at HSBC, Barclays and Lehman Brothers. Julie holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA in Economics (Honors) from Wellesley College.

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