• Party’s over – time to go home

    It’s late. You’re in taxi territory. The nibbles are finished or looking dubious. And you’ve just realised you’re the only one at the party who’s not staying over. It’s time to go home. Having this week published the IJ funds and investors report, that’s kinda the way it feels when running an eye over the fundraising chart for close-ended infrastructure funds – the party’s over

  • Boardroom Warriors v. Bedroom Warriors

    Blimey… just come off a call where it was mentioned that we’ve marked the third anniversary for Lockdown UK. Looking back, it’s a blur viewed through a lens of horror / fondness / despair… but now that we’re long out the other end, the time has arrived to ponder its impact

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – LatAm Deal Winners

    The Americas-based infrastructure and energy community amassed last night at the splendid Guastavino’s in New York to celebrate the IJGlobal Awards 2022

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Latin America Company Winners

    The LatAm infrastructure community – many of them arriving in New York from the IJ LatAm conference in Miami – gathered in Guastavino’s to celebrate the successes of 2022 at the IJGlobal Awards

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – North America Company Winners

    The infrastructure community amassed last night in the glorious Guastavino’s to celebrate the successes of 2022 at the IJGlobal Awards, achieving levels of razmataz that can only be attained at a New York event

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – North America Deal Winners

    The infrastructure and energy community for the Americas gathered last night at the glorious Guastavino’s in New York to celebrate the IJGlobal Awards 2022

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Europe Deal Winners

    The great and the good of the regional infrastructure finance community gathered last night in the Sheraton Grand London in Park Lane to celebrate IJGlobal Awards 2022 for Europe and Africa

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Africa Deal Winners

    Five African transactions that closed in the 2022 calendar year were celebrated last night in London at the IJGlobal Awards, hosted at the Sheraton Grand on Park Lane

  • IJGlobal Awards 2022 – Europe & Africa Company Winners

    Winners of the coveted Company category for Europe and Africa were announced last night at the gala dinner for IJGlobal Awards 2022 hosted in the Sheraton Grand London on Park Lane

  • Zenobē battery portfolio, Scotland

    London-headquartered EV and battery storage developer Zenobē reached financial close on a 400MW battery portfolio in Scotland, boasting several firsts: including a higher than market average gearing on the transaction

  • Africa's data centre growth opportunity

    Moritz Breickmann – investment director at African Infrastructure Investment Managers – investigates the opportunity for data centre growth across the African continent

  • IJGlobal Annual Report 2023

    IJGlobal is today publishing its annual report that will be printed and made available to guests at the London awards night on Thursday 9 March

  • The End is Nigh for infra funds

    It’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

  • It’s not “going to be fine” – you fool

    When the bell sounds, you better know for sure whether you’re inside the ring or outside of it for the fight of the century – a grudge match of monumental proportions that will first be staged in the UK

  • CityFiber's £4.9bn debt facility, UK

    CityFibre, a relative newcomer to the FTTH sector and currently positioned as the country’s largest open access fibre only operator, has had an impressive run over the past decade. But its rapid expansion streak appears to have hit an inadvertent snag when confronted with UK’s fragmented digital infrastructure strategy

  • Infra funds – hoarding and splurging

    Infrastructure 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

  • DC Advisory sails through 2022, predicts choppy but navigable waters ahead

    DC Advisory has won the Global Financial Adviser of the Year in IJGlobal’s Investor Awards 2022, coinciding with its tenth anniversary last March

  • IJGlobal ESG Awards 2022: Interview with EDRAM

    In the wake of EDRAM winning ESG Infrastructure Asset Manager of The Year (Debt) at the recent IJGlobal ESG Awards, Jean Francis Dusch, global head of infrastructure and structured finance at the asset manager, discusses the firm’s differentiated approach to ESG investing, and how that’s demonstrated in key transactions

  • IJGlobal ESG Awards 2022: CIBC and Hydrostor

    Off the back of CIBC’s recent ESG Adviser of The Year award for the Americas, Robert Todd, managing director in the bank’s energy, infrastructure and transition business, and Curtis VanWalleghem, co-founder and CEO of Hyrdostor, discuss the evolving area of energy storage