Jean-Francis DUSCH

Jean-Francis brings over 30 years of international project and structured finance experience to the team. He started his career at Bouygues Construction in 1992 in their International Finance Engineering Department as a financial modeller and then became a project manager working on many transportation and social PPP projects in Europe such as the Stade de France, Lyon toll ring road, Bina Istra motorway, M5 motorway in Hungary, Prague airport N4 motorway in South Africa.  In 1997, he led the project finance department of Basil Read (Bouygues’s South African subsidiary.) In 1998 he joined UBS in Zurich, later moving to London within their project finance department and was involved as financial advisor and arranger in a number of landmark European infrastructure, energy and telecoms projects.  He then acted as a Director with Citigroup and WestLB, covering infrastructure and TMT sectors in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia, and leading several “Deal of the Year” debt transactions. Jean-Francis joined the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2004, as co-head of the Project Finance department before taking charge of the group’s structuring advisory services. He contributed to the successful development of the Project Finance advisory (EdR led the 2011 IJ league tables as global financial advisor in transport and PPP) and Private Equity structuring activities having advised and closed the EUR 140m transport infrastructure investment company in 2008 (Jean-Francis Dusch is a member of the Investment Committee and sits on the board of the GP). Jean-Francis graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and has a law degree from the Law University Paris II.