Gerard Mc Hugh
Managing Director
Tribe Infrastructure Group
Gerard is a Managing Director at Tribe, with over 20 years of senior leadership experience across investment banking, advisory, and corporate finance in MENA, EMEA, and Asia. He brings deep commercial, strategic, and financing expertise, having led complex transactions across M&A, debt advisory, capital markets, and structured finance for corporate, institutional, and sovereign clients.
OVERVIEW
Gerard is a senior banking and advisory professional with a proven track record in originating, structuring, and executing high-impact transactions across energy, infrastructure, utilities, telecoms, and industrial sectors
He has held regional leadership roles across the Middle East & Africa and EMEA with extensive experience advising C-suites and boards of corporates, sovereign entities, and institutional investors on a wide variety of strategic and transformational transactions.
Prior to his current role, Gerard led Mizuho’s Corporate Finance, M&A, and Investment Banking build-out across the Middle East & Africa, successfully establishing the firm’s first regional sell-side and buy-side mandates, delivering landmark transactions, with the firm being recognised as Advisor of the Year by Global Banking & Markets.
Earlier in his career, Gerard held senior banking roles at RBS across corporate coverage in Europe and Asia and regional leadership positions, including CEO / Country Executive roles in the UAE and Qatar, where he led client businesses combined with regulatory responsibilities to the DFSA, UAE Central Bank and QFCRA.
Gerard holds a BA (Hons) in History & Irish Studies from University of Liverpool, a MSc in International Business from University of London and a MBA from INSEAD
SELECTED PROJECTS & TRANSACTIONS
Member of Advisory Board for Certy fintech operating in the shipping sector (USD <10m, 2025)
Advisor to the CEO / Owner of a Fintech FX and Treasury platform (USD <50m, 2025)
Sell-side M&A advisor on energy infrastructure assets in Eastern Europe (>USD 1bn, 2025)
Buy-side M&A and bid advisor to Middle East NOC on Asian blue-hydrogen project (>USD 1bn, 2025)
Buy-side M&A advisor to regional Family Office on China healthcare asset (USD <100m, 2024)
Sell-side M&A advisor to European offshore wind project (GBP <100m, 2024)
Sell-side M&A advisor to African energy company on green hydrogen and renewable project (>USD 500m, 2024)
Complex acquisition financing advisory to Asian NOC related to buy-side M&A transaction (>USD 1bn, 2023)
Buy-side M&A advisor to regional SWF on African food & agriculture platform (USD <500m, 2022)
Sell-side M&A advisor to Regional NOC follow-on sale of critical energy infrastructure asset (~USD 2.1bn, 2020)
Sell-side M&A advisor Regional NOC on minority stake sale in critical energy infrastructure (~USD 20.7bn, 2020)
IPO underwriter for regional NOC (~USD 2tn valuation, 2019)
Development of PE infrastructure investment relationships with Asian investors (>15 meetings, 2014 onwards)
Project finance advisory team on the first regional PF CCUS mandate (undisclosed size, 2022)
Advisor on long-dated debt liquidity and bridge take-out financing, PE investor (~USD 1bn, 2022)
Bridge underwriting, syndication, DCM and interest rate hedging advisory, regional NOC (~USD 12bn, 2022)
Bridge underwriting, syndication, DCM and interest rate hedging advisory, regional NOC (~USD 10bn, 2021)
Capital structure advisory and US project finance advisory mandate, regional NOC (undisclosed size, 2021)
RCF advisory and lender coordination during the Covid-19 period for regional NOC (~USD 10bn, 2020)
Bridge underwriting, syndication, DCM and interest rate hedging (~USD 4bn, 2019)
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