Within food and agribusiness investing, value creation and sustainability often go hand in hand. As such, identifying opportunities to maximize positive social, environmental, and corporate governance (ESG) effects within our investments has naturally integrated into our business since the early days of our firm.

Our firm is committed to integrating high ESG standards across each investment lifecycle in order to safeguard our portfolio companies’ success in each phase of our investment process, including: sourcing, monitoring, management.

We evaluate a target acquisition’s ESG profile from the early days of diligence. We take ESG standards very seriously in the pre-investment phase, and we aim to ensure there are no outstanding ESG issues before we make an investment.

We conduct ESG monitoring of all portfolio companies, and we produce an annual report on ESG and sustainability that is available to both existing and prospective investors.

ESG is important to us for two reasons: we care about the end users of our portfolio companies’ products, and better ESG makes for more saleable businesses when time is right for exit. As such, we institute a strong culture of ESG sensitivity with both Paine Schwartz and portfolio company executives alike.