SPINFRA is a trusted delivery advisor and transactions partner for niche infrastructure asset owners and professional services firms, supporting market growth and helping its clients gain national interest through expert advice, strategic positioning, and its extensive networks and relationships.
Founded in 2023 by expert consultant Costa Casiou, SPINFRA engages both in the market and on the market, giving it unique insights to support engineering, infrastructure and private equity firms with a focus on decarbonisation and the energy transition.
With nearly 20 years’ experience in project advisory across the energy, mining, oil and gas, ports, water and transport sectors, Costa has developed a deep expertise in infrastructure project delivery and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction consultancy, holding senior and executive roles and leading major projects, capital programs, shutdowns and business operations.
He is also a 2025 industry partner of SIM-PAC, a solutions-based conference and exhibition that envisions a sustainable future for industrial manufacturing, having presented at SIM-PAC Live last year on how to bring together the scale of larger firms with the agility of smaller ones to decarbonise the supply chain.
Costa told Green Review that SPINFRA helped smaller and more specialised companies grow through development of assets, projects and transactions of their businesses, while also supporting private equity funds identify growth opportunities in the professional services space.
He noted the current consolidation occurring in the market, with M&A driven in part by efforts to decarbonise and achieve an optimal market position, as well as businesses attempting to enter new markets, specifically within ESG and water.
Costa said: “We’re currently seeing both horizontal and vertical integration in the sector, with several recent strategic M&A transactions such as Pemba Capital’s acquisition of water-focused engineering consultancy Sequana, which under Pemba’s investment umbrella will see scale and development.
“Other notable transactions include Accenture acquiring Partners in Performance, Sedgman acquiring Prudentia, and Mercury Capital buying into Fyfe.”
Along with project delivery, SPINFRA provides strategic advisory, market intelligence, investment and technical due diligence, and M&A origination and transaction support, with a diverse client base including private equity funds, professional services firms, founders, project developers, and hard asset owners.
Costa explained that investment and collaboration geared towards decarbonisation was gaining significant momentum in preparation for the future, with many recent examples of strategic acquisitions into engineering and advisory services firms by private equity wanting to gain entry and exposure in the energy transition.
He said: “SPINFRA brings the capability and capital to where it’s needed by identifying and facilitating transactions for service providers and asset owners looking to grow.
“Many established organisations that want to fast-track and complement their current market offering have adopted the strategy of acquiring smaller niche advisory, management and engineering services, as this removes the time, risk and capital cost to do it themselves organically.”
To learn more about how SPINFRA can help you unlock infrastructure development, enable market participation and achieve scale and growth in your business through transactions, visit the website https://www.spinfra.com.au