Board-level execution and advisory for cross-border transactions too complex to run from a single desk — metals, biofuels, critical minerals, M&A.
Zug, Switzerland.
About
Board-level execution and advisory across the full commodity lifecycle — strategy, supply chain, trade finance, compliance, execution — for port operators, industrial holdings, manufacturers, trading houses, and investment vehicles across Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas.
Delivered through a selective network of senior specialists, engaged per mandate under Swiss law — retainer advisory, project execution, or commission agency. No standard packages.
Execution Network
Ports, terminals, and rail hubs across four regions - and the corridors that connect them. One layer of the system MSE architects. Select a region or a node.
Indicative geography. Nodes and corridors reflect the execution track record of MSE's principal and expert network across 30+ years - not a statement of current volumes, mandates, or counterparties.
Capabilities
The functions a principal entrusts to MSE — independent of the commodity, ordered by the life of a transaction. The sectors are the markets; these are the work.
Qualify the counterparty and the opportunity.
Build the deal, its financing and its compliance frame.
Raise the capital and move the cargo.
Execute, hedge and settle.
Run the book and hold the risk.
Deposit evaluation, fund architectures, Swiss-law investment structures. Southern Europe, Central Asia, EMEA.
Explore →Primary metals to engineered products. Value chain architecture, LME management, vertical integration.
Explore →Cement, clinker, aggregates. EU market entry, CBAM carbon reporting, multimodal corridor design.
Explore →Fuel ethanol, bioethanol, SAF. ISCC EU certification, RED III compliance, GHG pathway structuring.
Explore →Critical minerals, REE, lithium, gallium, tungsten. Non-China supply chains, bankable offtakes, vertical integration.
Explore →Ceramic micropowders, zeolites, specialty materials. Commercial integration for EU-based producers.
Explore →Port management, multimodal logistics, collateral control, and commodity financing through physical asset infrastructure.
Explore →Swiss trading house architecture. SPV structuring, bankable offtakes, trade finance, compliance, traceability.
Explore →Our Approach
Three mandate formats. One execution standard.
Executive Mandate. MSE is retained to take operational responsibility for a defined function — supply chain, commercial strategy, market entry, post-merger integration — with its principal able to sit on the client’s executive team, title and authority included. Governed by a Swiss-law service agreement.
Commission & Trade Execution. MSE is appointed commission agent (Kommissionär, Swiss OR Art. 425–438) — finding counterparties, structuring, and executing on the principal’s account. Paid on delivered result: commission on volume, spread, or defined outcome.
Investment & Project Origination. MSE originates and structures investment and acquisition projects — due diligence, fund architecture, investor coordination, regulatory navigation, negotiation with asset holders and host governments — as institutional initiator across the lifecycle.
Whichever format applies, the work runs to one execution standard — the five phases set out under What We Do.
Mandate Examples
Indicative engagements drawn from the mandate book. The full record remains confidential under client agreements.
Transaction range: €2M — €180M.
ESG & Traceability
As CBAM, EU due diligence, and ISCC EU reshape commodity trade, MSE builds sustainability into the transaction itself — from origin verification to carbon-adjusted settlement, not a reporting layer bolted on after.
Lot-level origin tracking in shipping and customs documents; audit-ready MRV aligned to ISCC EU, ASI, and the EU Union Database, producer to delivery.
Scope 1–3 accounting per shipment with CBAM-compliant embedded reporting, verified carbon-intensity certificates for EU import declarations, and route optimisation per leg.
Provenance bound to the physical control chain and moving with the cargo — audit-ready, bankable ESG verification recognised by financiers and counterparties.
Enter your annual import volume and emissions basis. The calculator applies the official phase-in schedule and published certificate price to project your total obligation from 2026 to full phase-in.
Select a feedstock to trace its ISCC EU certification pathway, Annex IX classification, and GHG saving against the RED III threshold. Six feedstock types — from alcohol residues to corn — with pass/fail result.
Founder & Director
Founder & Managing Director
30+ years across the full commodity execution chain. Former C-level executive at a Top-3 global primary aluminium producer (Zug) — Director of Sales & Marketing, General Director of the Trading House, COO/Director SCM.
Founded MSE in 2018 under Swiss institutional form. Mandates since include Director at a European cement holding (2021–24), MD at a Swiss commodity & technology platform (2023–24), CCO at a Central European advanced-ceramics producer (2022–25), and Director, Special Projects at a Pan-European terminal operator (2019–20).
Expert Network
No transaction turns on a single discipline — or a single person. Under each mandate, MSE assembles senior specialists matched to the structure at hand.
Director-level procurement at a major global metals producer, then MD-level trading of metals, ores and concentrates at a leading independent house - both sides of the chain.
Switzerland · LondonCOO-level industrial leadership; plants up to 1,200 staff and €200M turnover; CAPEX governance and M&A evaluation across metals, chemicals and materials.
SwitzerlandAccredited ISCC EU and ISCC PLUS auditor; GHG calculation and verification; certification of biofuel chains of custody to audit-ready standard.
United StatesDirector-level structured commodity and corporate trade finance across two major European banks (20+ years); UHNW and key-client coverage at a global Swiss institution.
SwitzerlandEngaged per mandate under confidentiality; identities disclosed to counterparties as a transaction requires.
MSE Platform
Calculators and compliance screeners for commodity-trade professionals — CBAM, RED III, trade-finance bankability — plus an EU regulatory horizon and a working lexicon. Real transaction parameters, embeddable, no registration.
Model the obligation, screen the feedstock, test bankability — before the conversation, not after.
Assemble a cross-border structure — commodity, Incoterms, financing, hedging, mandate role — then read the parties, documents, pricing and risk.
Open EU regulatoryEvery adopted EU deadline that reprices flows, 2026–2034, on one zoomable timeline — CBAM, ETS, RED III, EUDR, CSDDD.
Open ReferenceSeventy-two cross-border trade terms — finance, custody, shipping, customs, Incoterms — each defined from the desk.
Open DistributionPut the CBAM calculator, the RED III checker or the regulatory horizon on your own pages — free, cookieless, with attribution.
OpenEngagement Pathfinder · Guided
Four questions — role, domain, region, objective — return your pathway: how MSE engages, how the role evolves from advisory to execution, and the next steps.
Bankability & Financeability · Self-assessment
Test whether the transaction stands up against the criteria a financier actually applies — across seven contexts, from commodity trade to mining, structured supply, ESG-linked finance and M&A — and see which gaps to close.
MSE Perspectives
Most companies master one layer. MSE architects all three - sector, infrastructure, and trading structure - into a single bankable chain.
Read →An asset-by-asset reading of Tajikistan’s mining — gold, silver, antimony, tungsten, lithium, rare earths: which deposits exist, who controls them, and at what stage.
Read →The incentives first — investment-agreement tax and customs exemptions, profit-tax holidays, priority-sector relief covering mining, and duty-free zones — then the four-statute framework behind a Tajik mineral mandate.
Read →From 1 July 2026, Platts raises the T2 FOB Rotterdam ethanol GHG-saving floor from 64.3% to 75%. Product below it faces exclusion from benchmark flows or a structural discount.
Read Commentary →CBAM entered its definitive phase on 1 January 2026. Liability accrues from day one — yet the obligations, phase-in, and cost trajectory remain widely misunderstood outside the EU.
Read Commentary →1 perspective · 2 regional analyses · 4 MSE commentaries · 4 external publications in industry press
Most companies master one layer. MSE architects all three - sector, infrastructure, and trading structure - into a single bankable chain. The sectors above are Sol. The network mapped at the top of this page is Luna. The trading structure that binds them is Lux.
Contact
All enquiries are reviewed at principal level, under strict confidentiality. MSE holds a limited number of concurrent mandates to keep every engagement principal-led.
Where complexity meets execution.
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