Tampa, Fla. – July 16, 2025 – Hyde Park Capital announced today that it is launching a new line of business in the project finance sector led by John Christmas, Managing Director of Hyde Park Capital. This new service focuses on raising capital and arranging financing for infrastructure projects across power, renewable energy, biofuels, telecom, and digital infrastructure — including data centers.
John Christmas recently joined Hyde Park Capital to launch this new initiative. Mr. Christmas has had a long successful history advising in the power and renewable energy space as President at Current Energy Capital for more than a decade. Before then, Mr. Christmas was the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Energy Asset Finance at Hannon Armstrong.
“I am honored to bring my experience to a firm with Hyde Park Capital’s reputation and capabilities. We are ready to support sponsors, developers, lenders, and investors with their most ambitious power and infrastructure projects and continuing my long-standing relationships in the power industry,” said Mr. Christmas.
“We are excited John has joined Hyde Park Capital to help lead our Project Finance team. There is a huge opportunity to provide first-class financing services in the infrastructure space. With the accelerating rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the need for significant independent power generation for data centers and cleantech projects has proliferated. We are enthusiastic about launching this new line of business to help fill that need,” said John Hill Jr., Managing Partner of Hyde Park Capital, “John Christmas will work directly with Lew Thomas, Managing Director, in leading this effort.”
Hyde Park Capital has a 25-year history and is a nationally recognized investment bank working in the middle-market M&A, specializing in managing the sale of large private companies and capital raising across the industrial, business services, consumer, healthcare, and technology sectors.
Hyde Park Capital’s deep resources, relationships, and institutional investor reach offers a robust platform for complex Project Finance transactions. We provide end-to-end investment banking support, from origination and financial modeling to structuring, arranging, and closing Project Finance assignments. Project sizes may range from $25 million to $1 billion+, with capital solutions including both debt and equity and ranging from senior term debt, mezzanine capital, mini perms, common and preferred equity, and development capital.
If you want to learn more about Project Finance or are interested in supporting one of our infrastructure projects, we encourage you to reach out to John Christmas at christmas@hydeparkcapital.com.
About Hyde Park Capital
Hyde Park Capital is an institutionally focused boutique investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. Hyde Park Capital focuses on serving the corporate finance needs of successful founder, family, and institutionally owned companies.
Hyde Park’s principals have extensive investment banking experience managing merger and acquisition engagements, including executing sell-side and buy-side sale of company assignments, recapitalizations, financial advisory services, fairness opinions, and raising growth capital and acquisition financing for companies, including equity, mezzanine, and senior debt.
Hyde Park Capital has extensive experience across numerous industry sectors, including industrial, technology, consumer, healthcare, business, and financial services.
Hyde Park Capital is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and is a member of FINRA and SIPC.
Hyde Park Capital is also a member of the Geneva Capital Group (GCG) International M&A Alliance (see www.gcg.com).
For additional information, please visit www.hydeparkcapital.com.
Media Contacts:
Rebecca Stapp
Hyde Park Capital
(813) 868-5734
John Christmas
Hyde Park Capital
(703) 416-9865