The Newbridge Advisors Team
Matthew Houseley has advised clients on European project financings for over 20 years. Matthew is a founding partner of Newbridge Advisors. He previously worked for Royal Bank of Canada for 12 years following a 9-year career at Greenwich NatWest and was the Managing Director, Head of RBC’s Social Infrastructure team. Matthew has helped to deliver funding for government offices, hospitals, housing, rail, renewables, roads, schools, secure accommodation, universities, waste and water projects. Other work has included advising clients on equity disposals and acquisitions, regeneration initiatives, restructur- ings and capital raisings. Matthew is currently working on projects in the UK and the Netherlands and has previously worked on projects in France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the USA. For the first six months of 2003, Matthew was seconded to Partnerships UK where he established the Refinancing Taskforce. Matthew holds a BA in Physics from Jesus College, Oxford University. For the previous 6 years, he was part of Royal Bank of Canada’s Infrastructure Finance team where he advised sponsors primarily on PPP/PFI transactions. This has included funding structures using bank debt, capital markets and also institutional funding. This has involved optimising the financial and commercial aspects of the bid strategy and developing financial models to analyse the project. He has worked on projects across a range of sectors including both social infrastructure and transportation, predominantly in the UK but also in a number of other European countries. Prior to RBC, Richard was at Operis Business Engineering where he led one of its three modelling teams. Richard is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has completed London Business School’s Corporate Finance Programme. Richard Dodson has been a financial advisor on project finance transactions for 14 years. Richard is a founding partner of Newbridge Advisors.
Stephanie Paillat has been working as an advisor for over 10 years. She specialised in project finance in 2006 and worked for Royal Bank of Canada structuring finance and providing financial advice for infrastructure projects in the UK, France and Swe- den in health, education, transportation and accommodation projects. Prior to RBC, Stephanie worked for 6 years at PwC in Paris and London. She advised large investment banks on risks associated with their activities with a special focus
on regulatory compliance (Basel) and financial performance management where she developed a strong knowledge and expertise of financial products.
In parallel, Stephanie was in charge of performing regulatory audits and certifying accounts for financial institutions. Stephanie holds a Master of Science degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, in France, where she studied Mathematics and Physics.
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