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Fieldfisher’s Corporate department is proud to have advised SWEN Capital Partners, a leading player in Responsible Investment in unlisted assets in Europe, on the first investment of its new impact fund, “SWEN Terra”.
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SWEN Terra, which recently completed a first closing of €40 million, has made its first investment with GreenPods.
GreenPods is a French developer of regenerative agriculture farms, specializing in the production of nuts and orchard crops with the aim of relocating production—currently dominated by California—back to Europe, its primary market.
With the support of SWEN Terra, GreenPods will invest €30 million between 2025 and 2028 to acquire five farms and gain full control of the value chain by building its own processing unit.
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Fieldfisher France, which has been advising SWEN Capital Partners for many years, is honored to have assisted SWEN Terra—along with Fieldfisher Spain—in this first strategic investment, marking a new milestone for regenerative and sustainable agriculture.
For this transaction, the Fieldfisher team was led by:
- Jean-Baptiste Van de Voorde (Partner), assisted by Anne Ducros (Counsel), Sonia Dib (Associate), Romane Soret (Legal Officer) for Corporate / M&A aspects
and included in France:
- Emmanuel Paillard (Partner) and Thomas Bernard (Associate) for public law aspects,
- Marie-Léonie Vergnerie (Partner) and Manon Pujol (Legal Officer) for industrial environmental law and circular economy aspects,
- Antoine Gabizon (Partner) and Mehdi Gasmi (Associate) for tax aspects,
- Julia Mohamed (Partner), Anne Dubus (Associate) and Anne Claude (Associate) for employment law aspects,
and in Spain:
- Ramón Vázquez (Partner), for Energy & Natural Resources, Public Law aspects, and María Fernández, Regulation & Public Law aspects,
- Paloma Mato (Partner) and Carla Bravo (Senior Associate) for Corporate / M&A aspects,
- Jacobo Otero (Partner), Virginia González (Senior Associate), María Valdecantos (Associate) for financing aspects,
- Javier Galán (Partner), Teresa Cortés Mateo (Associate), Cecilia Martín (Associate) for real estate aspects.
Jean-Baptiste Van de Voorde, Partner in the Corporate M&A / Private Equity department, comments:
"We are delighted to have supported SWEN Capital Partners on its first investment through SWEN Terra. GreenPods perfectly embodies the ambition of this fund: combining profitability, environmental impact, and support for sustainable agriculture. This transaction highlights our expertise in the fields of natural resources and sustainable development, which are at the core of our firm’s priorities."