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M&A: Iberdrola ends rift in Mexico for $6bn
Renewables Latin AmericaIberdrola’s chairman Ignacio Galán, on April 4 2023, sat on a dark green chair embroidered with the Mexican coat of arms, around a large wooden table with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a Mexican delegation to hand over 8.5GW worth of assets, the largest energy deal ever signed in the country
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MAM's NTS stake buy, UK
Oil & Gas EuropeA consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management acquired a 60% stake in National Grid’s UK gas transmission and metering business earlier this year, with plans to “progress projects designed to transition the UK from fossil fuels, including hydrogen focused projects”
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IJGlobal Annual Report 2023
Renewables Asia PacificIJGlobal is today publishing its annual report that will be printed and made available to guests at the London awards night on Thursday 9 March
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EQT’s ferries platform, Nordics
Transport EuropeEQT’s recently launched platform ‘Nordic Ferry Infrastructure’ (NFI) added an asset last month as EQT completed the acquisition of Helsingborg-headquartered ForSea Ferries from Igneo Infrastructure Partners
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The End is Nigh for infra funds
Renewables EuropeIt’s long been darkly muttered in infra nooks and crannies. Heck, it’s been mentioned in one or two Friday Editorials. In truth, I’m sick of saying The End Is Nigh for infrastructure funds… well, kind of… for some of them
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Ratch's acquisition of Nexif's SEA, Oz portfolio
Renewables Asia PacificThai infrastructure giant Ratch's acquisition of Asia Pacific-focused renewable energy platform Nexif Energy, which closed in December 2022, is the product of an existing relationship between the buyer and seller, Denham Capital
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Infra funds – hoarding and splurging
Renewables EuropeInfrastructure funds struggling to raise cash… which sounds odd given the records broken in 2022 for fundraising. But we live in a new reality and the suspicion is that hoarding is afoot and that the splurge will come in Q3
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DC Advisory sails through 2022, predicts choppy but navigable waters ahead
Renewables EuropeDC Advisory has won the Global Financial Adviser of the Year in IJGlobal’s Investor Awards 2022, coinciding with its tenth anniversary last March
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Global Infrastructure Partners: Seizing the ESG opportunity
Renewables EuropeFormed from a marriage between Credit Suisse and GE in 2006, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has long had a results-focused and data driven approach to EHS and ESG matters, by virtue of the team’s industrial GE heritage, explains Lucy Chadwick, Partner and Head of ESG
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New year – new fear
Renewables EuropeAs we toil our way towards the end of the first week of 2023 – happy new year btw – the customary sense of enthusiasm/anticipation seems to be a trifle lacking. Is it just me, or does it feel a little bit… you know… nervous out there?
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Re-engineering infra finance for energy transition
Renewables EuropeOnly through in-house specialist expertise, structuring skills and agility will banks be able to meet the huge need for funding new types of sustainable infrastructure, writes Hervé Le Corre, global head of infrastructure finance at Societe Generale
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LAC’s digital patchwork
Telecoms Latin AmericaDigital infrastructure is one of the key pillars for growth across the LAC region with significant impact anticipated for the coming decade. Dorina Yessios, New York partner with Allen & Overy, speaks to IJGlobal...
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The Irideos journey, Italy
Telecoms EuropeAsterion Industrial Partners added Italian cloud and data centre company, Irideos, to its portfolio earlier this year, effectively creating Italy’s largest alternative wholesale access and B2B connectivity platform
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GI Hub reveals Asia's resilience during high inflation
Oil & Gas Asia PacificAsia’s infrastructure markets can leverage increasingly mature sustainable instruments and the availability of multilaterals to stay resilient amid rapid inflation and rising interest rates. IJGlobal shares insights with Henri Blas, chief content officer of Global Infrastructure Hub, about global trends of private investment in infrastructure in relation to Asia
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Greencoat UKW, Hornsea I stake acquisition
Renewables EuropeGlobal Infrastructure Partners has, through multiple deals over the past year, fully divested its 50% stake in the 1.2GW UK-based Hornsea I Offshore Wind Farm
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Austria's €2bn fibre investment
Telecoms EuropeAustria has ambitious goals for its fibre roll-out across rural regions with Meridiam lined up to play a significant role in the financing of that programme having secured its position this summer as a joint venture partner to work alongside Magenta Telekom
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Infra Dig – African energy… in transition
Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan AfricaGabriel Onagoruwa chair of the project development and finance practice at Nigeria-headquartered law firm Olaniwun Ajayi stars in this week's Infra Dig podcast
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Digital consumption drives APAC data center growth
Telecoms Asia PacificWith investment in APAC digitization continuing to ramp up, the focus turns on a growing market where the appetite appears to be bottomless
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Blue Phoenix Group acquisition, Netherlands
Renewables EuropeDeals in the niche energy-from-waste recycling sector are few and far between, rendering InfraVia Capital Partners’ acquisition of a 70% stake in Netherlands-based Blue Phoenix Group a transaction worthy of attention