Neil Rutledge

Neil has over 25 years of experience in corporate and project finance across various professional services firms. As a trained chartered accountant, he led the financial modelling function in each of those firms, developing a variety of tools to support infrastructure transactions. He spent 6 years delivering regeneration projects with KPMG, before becoming a partner with Grant Thornton’s Government & Infrastructure Advisory team and eventually a Director of Amberside Advisors.

Neil’s experience with Amberside Advisors covers advising on over 200 PFI projects, providing financial advice to contracting authorities, project sponsors and lenders. He has helped clients to enter, review, optimise, restructure, refinance and exit PFI and PPP projects across a range of sectors. Neil is also well-versed in SOPC4, Green Book VFM methodologies, and contracting and governance arrangements between public and private sectors. Neil is experienced in supporting investors and public sector agencies to deploy funding at both portfolio and asset level, for net zero and other infrastructure projects.