Philipp Hirche

Director, August & Co

Philipp joined Augusta in June 2013 after spending seven years within principal investments at JPMorgan, including five years in JPMorgan’s tax equity business in Chicago. Here he participated in the structuring, economic analysis, due diligence and document negotiations of numerous onshore wind, solar, and geothermal transactions representing over $5bn of investments.

Augusta is a leading independent specialist financial advisory firm based in London serving the renewable energy sector. Here Philipp focuses on offshore wind transactions in all stage of development globally, while also covering onshore wind and solar transactions with an emphasis on Europe. Most recently he lead the sale of a stake in the Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan, sold a French renewable energy development company and successfully helped to divest a sizable portfolio of operating solar PV assets in France.

Philipp has a Diplom Ingenieur from the Technical University Berlin, a Diplom Kaufmann, Diplôme de Grande Ecole and an MSc from ESCP Europe, and became a CFA in 2009.