Udo SchneiderGreen Giraffe (GGEB) GmbH
Geschäftsführer / Managing Director
Udo has 20 years of experience in energy transition
He is a managing director and co-heads the Hamburg office. Since joining Green Giraffe in 2015, he has advised on multiple sell-side and buy-side equity transactions, as well as
debt raises and provided commercial contracting advice for complex energy transition projects at different development stages and in different countries. He is also providing
advice on tenders and renewable energy offtake solutions. Amongst others, he led the debt raise for the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project
in Poland (1.2 GW, PL, 2023) and debt finance for a geothermal project, supported developers in offshore wind tenders and headed the M&A transactions for the offshore
wind projects TWB II (200 MW, DE, 2017), Global Tech I (400 MW, DE, 2020), and Gode Wind I (347 MW, DE, 2018) as well as the development, structuring and sale of a
Polish 350 MW offshore wind project to RWE. He also supervised the M&A transaction leading to the creation of Alterric (JV ENERCON & EWE) and is contributing to
establishing a new green hydrogen economy. Before joining Green Giraffe, Udo worked in the infrastructure finance and renewables team of PwC for 14 years advising investors, developers and industry players on several
onshore and offshore wind projects as well as infrastructure and public private partnership projects globally.
Udo holds a bachelor of business in finance from the University of Technology, Sydney,
and graduated from Hamburg University with a degree in economics
Selected projects
• Baltic Power | 1.2 GW | PL | offshore
• Eavor Loop | 60 MW | DE | geothermal
• Alterric | 11+ GW | EU | onshore
• Baltic II & Co | 1.5 GW | PL | offshore
• Gode Wind 1 | 347 MW | DE | offshore
• Global Tech I | 400 MW | DE | offshore