Team

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Antin Infrastructure Partners, Alain Rauscher was previously Head of the Oil, Gas & Mining division at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance, which he joined in 1994.

Alain brings to Antin Infrastructure Partners over 20 years of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions gained with Lazard Frères, Lehman Brothers and Bain & Company in London, where he began his career in 1984.

In the energy sector, Alain has advised a broad range of companies including Shell, Exxon Mobil, Elf, Total, Gaz de France, etc. and he has been involved in numerous transactions in the mining sector, for companies such as Glencore, Xstrata, Mittal, etc. Alain’s international experience includes assignments for private companies, governments and state-owned companies in a number of geographies: Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, China, India, Russia etc.

Alain graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. He also holds a Masters in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Alain is a member of the Board of Pisto.

Mark was previously for seven years the Director of corporate strategy, development and M&A and was a member of the Executive Committee at Centrica plc. Prior to joining Centrica, Mark was an Executive Director at UBS in London for two years before which he spent six years as a Director of the Executive Committee at Peregine Investment holdings in Hong Kong where he had responsibility for Corporate Finance and M&A across a number of Asian countries.

Mark has strong energy and infrastructure experience. At Centrica, while leading the M&A team, he completed approximately sixty transactions (predominantly in energy and related services as well as in Telecoms) in the UK, Europe and North America. He also gained significant infrastructure experience in Asia. Transaction examples include the acquisition of the UK's largest gas storage facility, advising on the equity fundraising for the $1.5billion Bangkok Mass Transit Rail system, financing of a toll road in China etc.

Mark obtained a BA (dual honours) in Economics, Accounting and Financial Management at the University of Sheffield and is a Chartered Accountant.

Mark is a Director of Euroports et Porterbrook.

Mélanie Biessy was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Antin Infrastructure Partners in 2007. From 2002 she was Corporate Secretary / General Counsel at Galaxy, an infrastructure fund sponsored by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC). Before that, she was a tax specialist for France Telecom, and began her career as a law and tax specialist at Egis Group.

She brings over 10 years’ expertise in the infrastructure sector gained from her involvement in a number of transactions in the transport and telecom sectors.

Mélanie Biessy graduated from the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg with a DESS (Masters) in business law and a DJCE diploma (company law masters degree).

Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Charles joined Bouygues Construction first as advisor to the CEO, then as Head of container terminals Concession Department, where he was in particular in charge of Tangier Atlantic Sea Port development with Maersk Sealand and Dubai Port Authority.

He then moved to London to start up the UK PFI business for the electrical and telecom contracting arm of the company (ETDE), leading first to the signature of London Lambeth street lighting contract, then to the acquisition of David Webster Ltd.

In 2004, Charles moved to Saur (owned by Bouygues until 2005 then bought by PAI Partners) as Managing Director of its international division with the role of restructuring its portfolio of contracts and starting up a business in the Middle East.

Charles is a member of the Board of Euroports, Pisto and Bina Istra.

Dr. Angelika Schöchlin has over 12 years of experience in principal investing and corporate finance. She has successfully closed numerous transactions.

Prior to joining Antin IP in December 2010, Angelika spent 8 years with Terra Firma focusing on large asset backed LBOs, including Deutsche Annington's acquisition of Viterra. She is a former member of the Supervisory board of Tank & Rast and started her career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt.

Angelika graduated from the University of Karlsruhe (Dipl-Wirtschaftsingenieur) and holds a Doctorate in Finance from the University of St. Gallen. She is also a CFA Chartholder.

Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE, Stéphane then worked in the structured finance Department at CCF (now HSBC) and La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild from 2000 onwards, Stéphane was a Managing Director in the debt advisory and restructuring division of Rothschild in Paris.

He advised on numerous transactions involving corporate acquisition financing (France Telecom-Orange, Beghin Say…), LBO financing (Europcar for Eurazeo, …) and corporate restructurings (NTL, Vivendi,…).

In recent years, he focused, in particular, on infrastructure transactions including the three motorways privatisations in France (advising Autostrade, Abertis and Vinci on their refinancing/debt push down), TDF, Saur and various greenfield projects (CCGT, stadiums…).

Stéphane is a member of the Board of Porterbrook.

Sébastien Lecaudey joined Antin Infrastructure Partners in October 2008 from BNP Paribas Investment Partners where he was Chief Operating Officer of the alternative and Private Equity Investments unit. Prior to this, Sebastien has worked in Luxembourg where he was deputy Managing Director of BNP Paribas Fund Services in charge of the Global Fund Services product line. Sebastien has been a member of several Luxembourg funds.

From 1999 to 2004, Sébastien worked for BNP Paribas Securities Services, in Frankfurt as Head of Operations and Product Development.

Sébastien graduated from the Manchester University in the UK with a BA in European Economics and Finance, as well as from the University of Rennes (France) with a Master in Corporate Finance. Sebastien also graduated from the HEC Executive MBA.