Bertrand Guiot is Head of Infrastructure for Natixis Asia Pacific, overseeing all the bank’s investment banking, financing and advisory activities pertaining to the infrastructure sector.

Throughout his career, Bertrand has been involved in a number of complex and innovative financing transactions either as Financial Adviser, MLA or bond underwriter.

Before relocating to Hong-Kong in 2017, Bertrand led project finance activities for Natixis in Australia and in Canada.

Recent assignments include MLA for wind farm, biomass and Solar PV assets (Australia, 2017 Canada 2010-2014), MLA for electricity transmission and distribution assets privatization (Australia 2015-2016), MLA , advisor and Structuring Bank on Data centres and subsea cables (Australia 2016,2017- Canada 2014), MLA for PPP refinancing (Australia 2016).

Prior to joining Natixis, Bertrand was with Dexia, where he coordinated PPPs in the infrastructure sector and arranged corporate acquisition financing in the telecom sector, before being appointed to lead the company’s project finance activities in Canada.

Before Dexia, Bertrand spent 14 years in various business development/ strategy/ finance roles in large IT/telecommunication companies in Europe.

Bertrand holds a master degree in Finance from ESC Lille (France) and a Professional Certification of Market Participants by AMF (France).