Chicago based. Global portfolio.
AeonLoop advises sovereign governments, institutional investors, and corporations on environmental finance with a capital markets focus.
The firm
AeonLoop was founded on a specific view: that environmental assets fail to attract institutional capital not because the underlying activity is unsound, but because the instruments presented to investors are not built to the standards those investors are required to apply. Correcting that is an architecture problem, and architecture is what the firm does.
The problems clients bring us rarely sit inside a single discipline. A structure that is elegant in legal terms can fail an accounting test; a program that is politically achievable can be unfinanceable; an instrument that satisfies a risk committee can be impossible for a ministry to administer. We staff engagements so that those questions are worked through together rather than handed between specialists in sequence, and we bring in outside expertise where a mandate calls for it.
We work in English and Spanish, and we are experienced working inside ministries, SOEs, investment committees, working groups, boards, and with internal and external counsel.
Principals
Andrew Gilmour
Founder and Managing Partner
Inventor of Sovereign Carbon Securities. Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Laconic Infrastructure Partners Inc. Opening address, Singapore Carbon Market & Investor Forum; speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference and TEDx. BA, University of Chicago.
Jose Nicanor Gonzales
Partner
Former Minister of Production of Peru. Former Managing Director of ProInversión, Peru's national investment promotion agency. Rear Admiral, Peruvian Navy (retired), and former Director General of Economy and Finance. Professor at Universidad del Pacífico. United States Naval Academy; MIT SM and PhD; MPA, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Speaking and media
The principals speak regularly on environmental finance, carbon market structure, and the regulatory architecture behind both. A selection of recorded appearances.
2026ABC Negocios, "Entrevista a José Nicanor Gonzáles Quijano, exministro de la Producción de Perú"Jose Nicanor Gonzales interviewed on ABC Color, Paraguay. In Spanish.2025Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, episode 391, "Solving Climate Change with Capitalism"Andrew Gilmour on carbon market structure, liquidity, and why credits are not held as assets. Ninety minutes.2025Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future with Megan Kjar, "Revolutionizing Carbon Trading: Treating Carbon as a Financial Asset"Andrew Gilmour on carbon market structure.
2025Milken Institute Global Conference, "Carbon Credits: Unlocking Climate Finance and Natural Capital Valuation"Andrew Gilmour on environmental finance and carbon market structure. Session page
2024Singapore Carbon Market & Investor Forum, opening addressAndrew Gilmour, opening address. Forum program (archived)
2024First International Conference on Sustainability in the Judiciary, BrasíliaAndrew Gilmour, featured speaker, on the legal architecture of environmental assets. Delivered in English; the official recording carries Portuguese interpretation.
2024How AI and financial innovation could save the planetAndrew Gilmour's TEDx talk.2010La Hora N with Jaime de Althaus, "Entrevista a José Nicanor Gonzales, Ministro de la Producción"Jose Nicanor Gonzales interviewed while serving as Minister of Production of Peru. In Spanish.News