Andrew Bride

Andrew Bride is a specialist infrastructure and structured financier.  He started working in the City in 1982 after graduating from Trinity College Cambridge, with a degree in Economics.  After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, he joined Morgan Grenfell & Co Limited in 1987.  He subsequently worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1999-2002), where he was a director in the infrastructure business group and DEPFA BANK plc (2002-2009), where he was responsible for its infrastructure business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

A broad-ranging career in infrastructure financing as an adviser, lender and investor, has seen him work in Europe, the Americas and Asia, in both developed and emerging markets, covering concession-based, regulated and non-regulated businesses in the transport, social infrastructure, power, renewable energy, oil and gas and water sectors.    Key note transactions include: the M1/M15 Motorway in Hungary, which was the first major private infrastructure financing in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism; Csepel IPP in Hungary, which was the first major new-build independent power project in Eastern Europe; Bridgend Prison, which was the first UK PFI “accommodation” project; and a range of financings in the water and general construction sectors in Italy.  He also devised the pioneering EPIC infrastructure loan securitisation programme.

His current practice encompasses power generation and transmission, renewable energy (wind, solar and biomass) and transport.

He is married with three children.