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Port of Miami Tunnel P3 Project
Transport North AmericaThe close of financing on the Port of Miami Tunnel concluded one of the most challenging procurement processes undertaken in the US, delivering the second greenfield, availability-based P3 transaction to the market in the region
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Dolphin Energy Refinancing
Oil & Gas MENAFew deals in the current market can generate the level of excitement and interest that the US$4.1 billion refinancing of the Dolphin Energy pipeline managed to inspire
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EASSy high-speed telecoms debut in Africa
Telecoms Sub-Saharan AfricaDWS lawyers recall the financing of one of Africa's largest telecoms infrastructure projects
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Portugal's Braga Hospital
Social & Defence EuropePortugal's approach to PPPs has been described as "ambitious with an orderly learning process". Despite the economic climate, the government is dedicated to initiating a considerable number of infrastructure projects
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North Edmonton ring road P3
Transport North AmericaBased on the success of the Edmonton southeast and Calgary northeast P3 projects, the latest addition to the Edmonton ring road will complete 90 per cent of the Anthony Henday Drive - having reached financial close in July 2008
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Singapore ITE College West PPP
Social & Defence Asia PacificThe Institute of Technical Education College West project has set a new standard in Singapore as the first availability-based social infrastructure PPP project to reach financial close
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Peru: US$3.8bn Peru LNG Project
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaThe US$2.05 billion debt financing for the landmark Peru LNG project reached financial close on 26 June 2008, marking the largest foreign direct investment in the country's history
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Virginia I-495 - Capital Beltway
Transport North AmericaVirginia's I-595, or Capital Beltway, HOT lanes PPP - designed to ease congestion on one of the US' most jammed-up arteries - ran into a financing jam of its own at the end of 2007
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Alberta Schools P3
Social & Defence North AmericaThe Alberta Schools P3 deal is Canada's largest schools P3 transaction and Alberta's largest social infrastructure P3, and a project that determinedly closed in the midst of global financial meltdown
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Angel Trains - a case study
Transport EuropeOn 6 August 2008, a consortium advised by Babcock & Brown announced that it had reached financial close on the purchase of Angel Trains from the Royal Bank of Scotland for an enterprise value of £3.6 billion
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Royal School of Military Engineering
Social & Defence EuropeThis PPP deal - Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) - to provide a blend of accommodation and military training services saw the project architects reinvent the wheel in a masterful way to achieve financial close on a deal that had no commercial l
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Canada's Kelowna and Vernon hospitals P3
Social & Defence North AmericaAttractive social infrastructure deals are currently drawing much of the attention in Canada with health projects leading the way for a country that has embraced P3s with enthusiasm
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Refinancing in the credit crunch - BAA's billions
Transport EuropeThe Ferrovial-led consortium which bought the UK airports operator BAA in June 2006 took more than two years to refinance the almost £9 billion it took on in acquisition debt
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Fair Trade Carbon - CantorCO2e's new online auction
Renewables Latin AmericaNext month, CantorCO2e will auction 260,000 Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) generated from three biomass plants owned by the forestry firm Arauco in Chile
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Kromhout Barracks PPP, The Netherlands
Social & Defence EuropeThe Netherlands last week closed its first defence PPP - going in at the deep end with the €290 million DBFOM of the armed forces' largest barracks facility
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IFM acquisition of Con Ed north east US power plants
Renewables North AmericaWhen Industry Funds Management reached financial close on its US$1.477 billion acquisition of northeast US power assets from Con Edison in June, the deal bucked two trends
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Jordan – a Kingdom with vision
Transport MENAThe Aqaba Development Corporation will be announcing a request for Expressions of Interest for qualified private sector developers to design, build, finance, operate and transfer the New Port of Aqaba in the Southern Industrial Zone
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Mundra UMPP - India's US$4bn international clarion call
Power Asia PacificTata Power's 4,000MW coal-fired Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) in Gujarat, India, reached financial close late last month and brought the booming Indian power sector to the focus of the international project finance community
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The credit crunch refi – Suez Gulf and Port Said East
Power MENAOn 25 March, Calyon, BNP Paribas and SMBC reached financial close on the US$637 million refinancing of Tanjong's Suez Gulf and Port Said East gas-fired IPPs in Egypt