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Battery Energy Storage · The Transaction Desk

The asset that earns
while the grid sleeps.

Battery storage buys the night and sells the morning — quietly, from a green field. ARM advises the owners, investors and developers behind that trade: acquisitions, disposals, structuring and joint ventures, across Europe and the GCC.

75 MW BESS TRANSACTION · BELGIUM MANDATED · STRUCTURED · PLACED
DISCUSS A MANDATE → HOW THE DESK WORKS
For Owners & Developers Considering an exit —
before the market knows it.

The price of a park is decided months before a buyer appears: in the contract stack, the grid file and the process design. A leaked sale, a retrade at diligence, a data room that raises questions — these are preventable, early.

THE EXIT-READINESS CONVERSATION → 45 MIN, BLUNT, CONFIDENTIAL
For Acquirers & Investors See the parks that are
never publicly offered.

Our sell-side mandates run quiet processes with few parties — the founding transaction closed with a counterparty the desk originated itself. Qualified acquirers — infrastructure funds, IPPs, family offices, industrials — enter under NDA and see mandates before the market does.

REQUEST MANDATE ACCESS → NDA FIRST, PRINCIPALS ONLY
Why Storage · Why Now

Every grid is buying
the same hour twice.

Solar rows at sunset — the afternoon the grid buys back at dusk
THE AFTERNOON SURPLUS — SOLD BACK AT DUSK

Solar floods the afternoon; demand peaks in the evening. The spread between those hours is now an asset class — and battery parks are the machines that capture it. Capital has noticed: storage portfolios are changing hands across Germany, the Benelux, Iberia and the Gulf at a pace the legal and structuring market has not kept up with.

A battery park is a bundle — land, grid, permits, contracts, counterparties — sold as one asset. Buyers don't discount the technology; they discount the bundle. Six places we have watched value leak at diligence:

iGrid-connection assignment. The connection agreement that cannot transfer without operator consent nobody sought.

By day, it rests in the landscape.
By night, it earns.

THE FIELD, CHARGING · --:-- CET
Four Mandates
I
Sell-side — exit at full value
ENTER →
Preparing a park or portfolio for disposal: structure clean-up, contract repair, process design — and, where mandated, originating the buyer itself. The desk has run that full arc once already, to close. II
Buy-side — acquire with eyes open
Due diligence coordination and deal structuring for investors entering storage: permits, grid position, contract stack, SPV architecture, cross-border tax posture. III
Structuring & joint ventures
Holding design, JV agreements between developers and capital, governance, waterfall mechanics and exit provisions — written for the day the partners disagree. IV
Development — from land to asset
Advisory through the development arc: land securing, permitting sequence, EPC and O&M contracting, grid-connection agreements — the paper that decides bankability.
How a Mandate Runs
01The conversationConfidential. What you hold or seek, and what the outcome must be.
02The asset, readContracts, permits, grid position, structure — the real state of the bundle.
03The architectureStructure, sequence and counterparties chosen before anyone is approached.
04The processNegotiation run quietly — few parties, full tension, founder at the table.
05The closeSigning, conditions, completion mechanics — and what the structure does after.
The Record
Case — Belgium · The Founding Mandate

The owner of a 75 MW battery storage asset came to the desk with one instruction: find the investor-developer this park belongs with. The desk put the opportunity in front of a hand-picked field of investors and operators for whom the asset genuinely fit — no public process, no noise. Then it ran the full review with specialist engineers and technical advisers: analysis, prognosis, every question a serious buyer would ask, answered before it was asked. The asset and the company were structured investor-ready. The deal concluded. The sell side exited a clean, defensible structure; the buy side acquired with confidence built, not claimed. One mandate, the full arc — origination, diligence, structuring, close — and the desk's standard since. (Parties confidential.)

Reach
Europe · GCC
Deal capability where storage capital actually moves — Germany, Benelux, Iberia, the Gulf.
Form
Founder-led, few mandates
The desk takes a small number of engagements at a time. Every mandate is led by the founder.
Buyer universe
Funds · IPPs · Family offices
Acquirer relationships across DACH, Benelux, Iberia and the Gulf — the field a quiet process draws from.
Who Answers

The partner alongside this desk.

Dries Bogaert, Partner, Transaction Advisory & Exit Readiness

Dries Bogaert

Partner, Transaction Advisory & Exit Readiness

Dries Bogaert is A.R.M. Management's Partner for Transaction Advisory & Exit Readiness, based in Abu Dhabi and covering the GCC and Benelux. A civil and structural engineer, he spent fifteen years directing mega infrastructure projects on four continents before moving to advisory. He prepares privately held companies for sale and supports transactions through to close.

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Off-market opportunities reach this desk
before they reach the market.

Parks change hands here that are never publicly offered. We maintain no listings and publish no teasers. If you are a serious acquirer — or an owner considering a quiet exit — the conversation is direct, and it is confidential.

BY INTRODUCTION · NDA FIRST · PRINCIPALS ONLY
Private & Confidential

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A.R.M. Management provides legal and business advisory services. It does not operate as an investment firm, broker or placement agent, and nothing on this page constitutes an offer, solicitation or investment advice. Transaction references are stated with parties kept confidential.