Plenary Group

As Co-Head of the Project Structuring & Investment (PSI) group, Stuart co-leads and provides executive support for the PSI group in the Americas, including Plenary’s west coast offices in Los Angeles and in Vancouver.
The PSI team is responsible for Plenary’s infrastructure development and investment activities including pre-development, bidding, commercial and financial structuring and equity investment in greenfield infrastructure projects and secondary acquisitions.
Stuart has 25+ years’ of project finance and public-private partnership (P3) experience across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. He has successfully led bidding consortia under a variety of risk allocation approaches including availability payment and hybrid real estate models in the social infrastructure and civil/transportation sectors. Stuart’s resume of leading successful P3 pursuits in the U.S. includes the UC Merced 2020 Project (California), Long Beach Civic Center & Port Headquarters Project (California), Long Beach Court House (California), Presidio Parkway (California), Port of Miami Tunnel (Florida) and SH183 (Texas) projects. Stuart has also provided executive oversight and support in closing more than 15 infrastructure projects in North America, including in the social infrastructure, transportation, broadband and campus utility sectors.
Prior to joining Plenary in 2013, Stuart worked for a number of global infrastructure developers and investors and practiced as a project finance lawyer at Magic Circle and Big Six law firms in London and Sydney. Stuart holds a Bachelor of Arts/Law from University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (France). Stuart currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his husband James.

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Oct 31

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Quick Case Studies: Winning Mixed-Use and Education Developments from the 2023 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, Concourse: 153ABC

ULI began the Awards for Excellence program in 1979 to recognize truly superior development efforts in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The Awards recognize the full development process of a project – including planning, partnerships, financing, community engagement, design, sustainability, economic impact, and more. Winners at the ULI Americas regional level become finalists in the ULI Global Awards for Excellence. In this session, representatives of four mixed-use projects in the United States will share the development story of their award-winning projects, with time for Q&A. One project is a large urban redevelopment and two are education campuses – one […]