Jim Guidera

Jim Guidera is the regional head for Credit Agricole’s project finance and nonrecourse lending activities in North  America, covering all industrial sectors: conventional and renewable power generation, oil & gas transportation infrastructure, petrochemicals, and mining, as well as financing roads, bridges, and other social  infrastructure using the public-private partnership model.  Project finance is a long-standing specialty of Credit Agricole. The New York team Guidera leads has consistently been ranked among the top three in the arranger-bank league tables for the region. Guidera joined the bank’s predecessor Credit Lyonnais in 1992. With more than thirty years of banking experience, he was previously a senior banker in the project finance and energy groups of KOP bank and Bank of Boston. Before his banking career, Guidera practiced law in Philadelphia, and has a JD from Villanova University.