Luke Sperry

Luke Sperry joined Astris in October 2021 as an associate in the firm’s Mexico City office. Prior to joining Astris, Luke spent three years at DC Advisory’s infrastructure platform in London. During this time, Luke worked on a range of M&A and debt transactions in the infrastructure and energy space across the European market, including transactions in the rolling stock, utilities, social infrastructure, district heating, power, and midstream sectors. Luke began his career at Balfour Beatty Investments, working with their portfolio of PPP assets in the United Kingdom. 

Luke holds an M.A. in Russian and Portuguese from Oxford University. He is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and German.

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Juliana Baron

Juliana joined Astris in August 2021 as an Associate in the Bogotá office.

Prior to Astris, Juliana worked for more than 4 years in Corficolombiana where she structured bonds and stock issuances in the energy and finance sector, as well as project finance transactions in toll roads and mass transportation. During her work in Corficolombiana, she also participated in the structuring of private initiatives in ports and mass transportation.

She is a graduate (BS in Business Administration) of Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.

Michaël Bismuth

Michaël joined the Paris office of Astris in April 2021 as Senior Analyst. Prior to joining Astris, Michaël spent five years at Crédit Agricole CIB. He worked for one year in the Rail Structured Finance team in Paris providing advisory services and arranging non-recourse financings in Europe. He then joined for almost two years the New York based Energy and Infrastructure Advisory team providing Equity and Debt advisory services to Sponsors for their investments in the U.S. and Latin America.

Michaël graduated from Paris Dauphine with a Master in Finance. Michaël is fluent in English, French and Russian.

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Jean-Yves Morille

Jean joined the Paris office of Astris in July 2020 as Senior Analyst. Since joining, he has been involved in a toll-road bid advisory mandate, the financing of a greenfield solar portfolio and the refinancing of a renewable portfolio in France. Prior to that, Jean worked for 18 months at BNP Paribas in New York, providing advisory services and arranging non-recourse debt financing for energy and infrastructure projects across Latin America. He also worked for 6 months in the project finance team of Voltalia in Paris, securing financing for solar, wind and hydro assets.

Jean graduated as an engineer from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and holds a M. Sc. in Sustainable Energy from Imperial College London. Jean is fluent in English and French.

Santiago Martinez

Santiago Martinez joined the Bogota office in June 2018. Prior to joining Astris, Santiago spent one year working at StratCo Consultores Asociados, a boutique consulting firm in Colombia as a Business Analyst, where he focused primarily in shaping the strategy for large financial institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Additionally Santiago was part of Banca de Inversión Bancolombia in the Infrastructure and Real Estate team where he had the opportunity to support financing and M&A process in the 4G road infrastructure program.

Santiago holds a degree in Finance and International Relations with an emphasis in Corporate Finance from Universidad Externado de Colombia. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

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Gonzalo Pradillo

Gonzalo joined Astris in February 2021. Prior to that, he worked as an M&A analyst in Banco Santander in Frankfurt, active in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.

At Banco Santander, he worked on several advisory mandates ranging from infrastructure and renewable energy tenders to bid processes and structuring of non-recourse debt financing.

Gonzalo started his career with General Electric where he worked as project manager of electrical substations.

Gonzalo graduated from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with a MSc in Industrial Engineering. He is fluent in Spanish and English and conversational in German.

Fabian Hernández

Fabian Hernández joined Astris in April 2019. Before joining Astris, Fabian worked in Trade Finance and Global Transactional Services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (since 2016) covering large multinational and Mexican corporates, including energy industry logos like Avanzia, Iberdrola and Engie among others.

 Fabian holds a BA in Finance from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and passed the CFA Level I Exam in June 2018. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

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Stanislas Buil

Stanislas joined Astris Finance in Mexico in September 2021. Prior to joining Astris, Stanislas spent a year and a half working for IVO Capital in Mexico, where he participated in the financing of Latin American projects and companies in the infrastructure and energy sectors via high yield bonds. Stanislas also interned at STOA Infra & Energy, where he worked on several PPP projects in Africa and Latin America, and at ECP, one of the leading private equity funds focused on Africa.  

Stanislas holds a Master in Management with a Major in Corporate Finance from ESSEC Business School. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Aaron Calvo

Aarón joined the Madrid office of Astris Finance in October 2022. Prior to that he worked in the Project Finance division of PwC, active in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors across Europe and LatAm.

 Aarón started his career in the renewable energy industry at Enerfín, the renewable subsidiary of Elecnor Group, as a financial analyst, primarily involved in wind energy transactions.

 Aarón holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Universidad de Vigo and a master’s in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking from IEB. He is fluent in Spanish and English and conversational in Portuguese and French.

Tuan Huynh

Tuan Huynh is an Associate at Ho Chi Minh office. Tuan joined Astris in August 2023. Prior to joining Astris, Tuan spent four years at PwC Vietnam's Deals Advisory where he worked on a range of M&A transactions across several industries, including the renewable energies sector, supporting clients based in the Southeast Asia region.

Tuan graduated from Villanova University with an M.Sc. in Finance from Villanova University. Tuan is fluent in Vietnamese and English.

Livia Murray

Livia joined Astris Finance in February 2022 at the Paris office, where she advises on renewable energy and infrastructure project finance transactions and M&A.

Prior to joining the Astris team Livia worked at CPCS, a Canadian infrastructure advisory firm, where she advised on renewable energy mandates for public and private-sector clients, carrying out financial modeling, economic cost-benefit analysis, and project development. She has also previously worked for a solar developer and a green infrastructure private equity fund.

Livia holds a master’s degree in Infrastructure Project Finance from École des Ponts and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto. Livia is fluent in English and French.

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Léa Malgras

Léa joined the Paris office of Astris in January 2022.

Prior to that, she was intern at Finergreen, working on M&A and project finance transactions in the renewable energy sector, particularly on solar and biomass projects. Léa also interned 6 months in Natixis as a corporate credit analyst and in Electricité de Strasbourg, working on the company's business plan.

Léa graduated as an engineer from Mines Nancy and holds a Master in Finance and Strategy from Sciences Po. Léa is fluent in English and French.

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Enoque Vilela

Enoque joined Astris in June 2020. Prior to Astris, he worked at BF Capital assisting in several M&A process in the infrastructure sector.

He also worked as a structured finance analyst at Fortesec, leading various real estate capital markets operations.

In 2017, he interned at Lincoln International and assisted the senior staff in many M&A transactions.

Enoque holds a BA in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). He is fluent in English and Portuguese.

Kai Dierksmeier

Kai joined Astris in October 2022 as Senior Analyst. Since joining the team, Kai worked on several financings and M&A mandates in the renewable energy sector across Europe.

Prior to joining Astris, Kai worked for PwC's ECA and Project Finance division in Hamburg. At PwC Kai worked on ECA non-recourse debt financings, carrying out financial modeling, risk analysis & structuring and coordinating the ECA process. 

Kai graduated from Tsinghua University's School of Civil Engineering with an M.Eng. and holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Bayreuth, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Beijing Institute of Technology. Kai is fluent in German and English and conversational in Chinese.

Audrey Moutia

Audrey joined the Paris office of Astris in October 2021. Prior to joining the team, Audrey joined GE Renewables in July 2019, based in Paris, where she performed a 2-year leadership program with 4 different assignments across the renewable energy, finance and healthcare sectors. She also interned in BNP Paribas as a project finance analyst with a focus on Metals and Mining deals, and in Akuo Energy, a French IPP.

Audrey holds a Master in Management and MSc in Corporate Finance & Banking from EDHEC Business School. She is fluent in French, English and proficient in Spanish. Return to the team page.

François Simon

François joined the Paris office of Astris in March 2021. Prior to joining the team, he interned in the 3i Infrastructure Private Equity division, working on investment opportunities in Core and Core+ sectors in Western Europe, such as telecommunications, EV battery projects and toll roads. François has also worked as an intern at Crédit Agricole CIB in Project Finance, with a focus on Metals and Mining deals, where he supported the team in the refinancing of mining projects in West Africa and South-East Asia.

François holds a Master in Management and MSc in Corporate Finance from EDHEC Business School. He is fluent in French, English and proficient in Spanish.