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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
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FSTA - the UK's largest PFI to date
Social & Defence EuropeThe UK's largest PFI transaction to replace a fleet of Royal Air Force refuelling aircraft has finally reached financial close with seven banks financing the deal in the long-running controversial FSTA scheme
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Yemen: Jabal Salab's Zinc Mine
MiningThe Jabal Salab zinc mining project reached financial close on US$120 million of limited-recourse debt on 19 February 2008 - marking Yemen's entrance into the global project finance market.
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Douro Litoral toll road - Portugal
Transport EuropePortugal is a country that has great potential and enthusiasm for project finance, but hesitancy over frequent changes of party's in power has tempered a market that started with a bang, but evaporated quickly
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US Gulf LNG Clean Energy
Oil & Gas North AmericaGulf LNG's US$1.1 billion project financing for the first receiving terminal in the US since early 2005 has reached financial close, bringing much-needed investment to the troubled Mississippi State
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Emal Taweelah Aluminium Smelter
Power MENAEmirates Aluminum's Dubai Aluminium Mubadala project financing to construct the world's biggest smelter in Abu Dhabi - the largest single commercial financing to date for any project in the Gulf and comes as the latest example of how Gulf states ar