Nicolas Le Clerc

Nicolas Le Clerc is a managing director based in Singapore and co-head of APAC.

Nicolas has over 22 years of experience advising on energy and infrastructure projects in Asia-Pacific on project development and financing, competitive tenders, project and debt restructuring, as well as M&A transactions. He has also acted as lead arranger on numerous landmark energy sector financing transactions in Southeast Asia. Finally, Nicolas was also involved with the inception of a credit fund dedicated to renewable energy. 

Prior to joining Astris Finance in 2023, Nicolas worked with several investment and universal banks, as well with a credit fund manager based in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. 

Nicolas Le Clerc graduated from Sciences Po Paris in Economics and Finance and holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from George Washington University.

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Dennis Schröder

Mr. Dennis Schröder is a Managing Director, based in Munich.

Dennis joins Astris from BNP Paribas where he led the Power & Utilities, Renewables sector team for the DACH region as Managing Director for the past two years.

Prior to this, he spent three years as Senior Banker with the Energy & Utilities team of UniCredit, five years as Head of Energy for Germany with SEB, and seven years at RBS as a senior member of the Power & Utilities sector team for DACH and CEE.

He started his career working for Deutsche Bank. Overall, he has a background of 20+ years in investment banking, including 15 years with a special focus on the Power & Renewables sector. He has executed transactions representing over € 10bn in cumulative investment in the energy transition space.

Dennis is fluent in German and English.

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Christiane Bergevin

Christiane brings an extensive international and Canadian track record in financial advisory, M&A and corporate consulting  with over $10B investment achievements and extensive governance, trade and public policy experience.   Prior to joining Astris, she successively built an international advisory business in infrastructure and led enterprise-wide M&A and business development for a Canadian financial institution in addition to being a senior member of the corporate strategy, M&A and innovation team of one of the largest Canadian utilities.

Her $10B investment track record extends to infra, transport, energy, telecom, industrial, resources, First Nations and financial services/digital sectors.

As Lead executive and President of SNC-Lavalin Capital, Christiane built a finance advisory powerhouse, spearheading advisory mandates across Europe, Asia, North & South America, Middle East and Africa including Euromoney Deals of the Year for Toronto  $3.1 B 407 Highway acquisition and the Vancouver $2 B Canada Line Light Rail Train PPP. In the power sector she advised for the AltaLink acquisition and financing (largest Cdn. regulated transmission company ), the financing of Five Nations Energy, the first and only wholly-owned indigenous regulated transmission line  in Canada as well as several green and conventional energy projects totalling in excess of  2000 MW across the world.

Christiane also served as Desjardins Group’s Executive Vice President Strategic Partnerships (M&A) and Business Development, Executive Committee member of its investment subsidiary Desjardins Financial Group, leading over $3B in M&A including the acquisition of the Canadian insurance activities of State Farm. (2009-2015). She was an executive advisor (2016-18) to Hydro One following its IPO, and concurrently is a Sr. advisor Power, Utilities and Sustainable Development for Roland Berger consulting practice.

Christiane started her career with Standard Life Canada and moved on to Export Development Corporation, structuring resources and aircraft sector transactions across Africa and OECD markets.    

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Patricia Onieva

Prior to joining Astris in November 2022, Patricia spent more than four years within PwC’s project finance team in Spain where she mainly led tenders, non-recourse debt financing and PPP structuring mandates within the infrastructure and energy sectors in the Middle East, Spain, Honduras, Poland, India, Guatemala and Mexico.

Before PwC, Patricia was part of Deloitte’s infrastructure financing team for four years where she was in involved in infrastructure deals (transportation, social infrastructure, waste and water) advising both the private and public sector mainly in Spain, Portugal, Panamá, Colombia and Peru.

Patricia holds a BBA from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and a MSc in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking from Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB). She is fluent in Spanish and English.

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Joaquin Fernandez-Salvador

Joaquin joined the Washington, DC office of Astris Finance in July 2015. Prior to that he worked as an intern in Astris during the summer of 2014 and the first half of 2015. During this time he has been involved in the photovoltaic energy and infrastructure sectors in a variety of countries, assisting throughout the development and execution stages of several project finance transactions.

Joaquin has a BA in Economics and a minor in Political Science from Georgetown University, from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is fluent in Spanish and English, and conversant in Portuguese.

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Marta Mediavilla

Marta Mediavilla joined Astris Finance in July 2018 in the Madrid office. Since joining the team, Marta has been involved in renewable energy mandates. Prior to that, she worked in the Infrastructure and Project Finance division of EY, primarily involved in structuration, bid process, M&A mandates and financing of social infrastructure PPPs, waste to treatment PPPs, and RE projects. Before that, she participated in EY’s Transactions Graduate Program, collaborating with different deal departments including M&A, strategy, restructuring, valuation and, due diligence.

Marta holds a BA in Business Administration and Finance from Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICADE). She also spent a year in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She is fluent in Spanish and English.Return to the team page.

Javier Osegueda

Javier joined Astris in January 2016 in the Mexico City office. Since Javier joined our team, he has worked on the financing, restructuring and bid preparation for renewable plants, airports, highways, railways and urban infrastructure projects in Latin America and Asia under diverse contractual and financial structures. Now based in Vietnam, Javier has focused in structuring and modeling for M&A transactions in the SEA region.

Prior to that, Javier worked in the Paris office handling day-to-day operations with European clients and lenders for projects on multiple regions and has been involved in restructuring transactions in France.

 Javier holds a BA in Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and has passed Level III exam of the CFA Program. He is fluent in Spanish & English and has an upper intermediate level of French.

Arthur Cury

Arthur Cury joined Astris in June 2016 in the São Paulo’s office. Prior to joining Astris, Arthur worked as analyst for AB Concessions, a toll road business held by Atlantia & Bertin, where he worked on several issuances of debentures for the company, worked on new business development and served as entry point between the business team and the investors relations and treasury departments. Prior to that, he spent one year in Private Equity at Bradesco, 2nd largest Brazilian bank, where he worked on several buy-side mandates in a wide range of sectors, such as energy, infrastructure, consumer goods and agribusiness.

Arthur holds a BA in Business Administration from Insper. He is fluent in English and Portuguese.