PPP & Infrastructure Advisory
Not theory. Not theatre. Real judgement.
We make PPPs and major infrastructure projects work.
We help infrastructure investors, bidders and government agencies make better decisions, avoid expensive mistakes and improve project performance — from early strategy and procurement through delivery, operations and full SPV management.
What We Do20+
Years of senior experience — from procurement to financial close to asset sale
GLOBAL
Experience across Europe, the Americas and Australasia
100%
Senior. Practical. Commercial. Direct.
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30-Day Asset Performance ReviewAbout
PPP & Infrastructure Advisory Firm
Vilentia is a New Zealand-based PPP and infrastructure advisory firm with global reach. But not the fluffy kind of boutique.
We advise government agencies, infrastructure investors, bidders, boards and project companies on PPPs, Market-Led Proposals, commercial strategy, procurement, bids and SPV management.
We have worked on both sides of the table: developing and delivering private-sector proposals, and helping government assess whether infrastructure projects are in the public interest, deliver value for money and justify exclusive negotiation.
That perspective matters.
We understand what government needs before it can say yes. We also understand what investors, contractors, lenders and SPVs need before a project can be financed and delivered.
We work where strategy, risk, money, politics, contracts, delivery and reputation collide.
Which is another way of saying: we work on the projects where mistakes are expensive.
Vicente Valencia
Founder & Principal Advisor
Vicente has more than 20 years of senior experience in PPPs and major infrastructure across New Zealand, Europe and North America.
He has worked as a CEO, bid leader, board director, adviser and SPV executive — from procurement and financial close through construction, operations, claims, refinancing and asset sale.
In New Zealand, Vicente spent almost six years as CEO of NX2, the project company responsible for delivering the Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway PPP. He has subsequently advised the New Zealand public sector on major infrastructure procurement and the assessment of Market-Led Proposals.
He has sat on the government side, sponsor side, delivery side and governance side of major infrastructure projects.
That matters. Because infrastructure advisory is not about sounding clever in meetings. It is about understanding what is investable, deliverable, bankable and politically realistic — and knowing what happens next before everyone else does.
LinkedInWhy We Are Small
We are small on purpose.
Large enough to bring the right people. Small enough to care. Senior enough to challenge. Direct enough to be useful.
A larger firm may give you a pyramid. A partner at the first meeting. A manager after that. A junior analyst doing the work. A final report full of safe sentences nobody can disagree with.
That is not us.
When you work with Vilentia, you work with people who understand the consequences of the advice. People who have been close enough to delivery to know that a bad recommendation does not stay in a spreadsheet.
We stay small because infrastructure advice should be personal. It should be senior. It should be accountable. And it should be useful.
What We Do
PPP & Infrastructure Advisory Services
Complex infrastructure projects require decisions that public agencies, investors and project companies may only make once or twice in a generation.
We bring senior commercial and project leadership when internal capability is stretched, specialist experience is missing, or the cost of getting the decision wrong is simply too high.
We produce judgement, not documents. Here is where we focus.
SPV Management
This is our main product.
We provide a fully outsourced executive management service for infrastructure and PPP project companies.
You focus on strategy, shareholder priorities and the decisions that genuinely require your attention.
We manage everything else.
For a predictable monthly fee, Vilentia takes responsibility for the ordinary executive management of the SPV—including the routine specialist support required to operate the business properly.
Instead of managing multiple consultants, appointments and invoices, the Board has one executive team, one management fee and one point of accountability.
We take the cost risk for the agreed routine services. We are therefore incentivised to control costs, solve problems efficiently and maximise recoveries—not to create another consulting engagement every time something happens.
- Executive leadership and Board support
- Governance and corporate compliance
- Commercial and contract management
- Financial management, budgeting and reporting
- Lender, client and stakeholder interfaces
- Asset, maintenance and lifecycle oversight
- Routine legal, engineering, insurance, environmental and commercial support
Separate Mandates
Not every SPV requires a fully outsourced management team.
We also accept separate mandates for executive leadership, governance, commercial management, contract strategy, financial oversight, change management, dispute prevention, asset performance and Board advisory.
The scope can be tailored to the project, the shareholders and the capability already in place.
Who We Work With
Who We Work With
We work with people who have something at stake. Not tourists. Not spectators. Not organisations looking for a consultant to validate a decision they already made badly.
We work best with clients who need judgement. Clients who need challenge. Clients who need clarity. Clients who understand that complex infrastructure projects are not won, delivered, or rescued by templates.
Public Agencies
We work with public agencies that need procurement and commercial decisions they can defend. Decisions that survive scrutiny. Decisions that hold up when the project gets hard.
Sponsors & Investors
We work with sponsors and investors who need to understand what they are buying into — before they buy into it. And what to do when the project stops performing as modelled.
Bidders
We work with bidders who want to win — and who understand that winning requires more than a good price. It requires a strategy, a story, and a commercial position the client can say yes to.
Boards & SPVs
We work with boards and SPVs that need someone in the room who has been there before. Someone who can challenge the advice, read the contract, and tell you what the lenders are actually thinking.
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If you are working on a complex infrastructure project and need someone who has been there before — let's talk.
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