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Data Analysis: Sharp fall in US oil & gas volumes in H1
Oil & Gas North AmericaWhereas the power sector saw modest growth in terms of total deal value, renewables slowed by nearly 30% and oil & gas fell by a staggering 75%
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Purple Line light rail transit PPP, US
Transport North AmericaThe $2 billion Purple Line light rail transit (LRT) PPP project is the second ever transit PPP to reach financial close in the US, following on from the Denver's $1.6 billion Eagle LRT project closed in 2010, and is the first rail PPP for the state of Maryland
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RARE: Unlisted returns to listed assets
Asia PacificRisk Adjusted Returns to Equity (RARE) Infrastructure was established in Australia in 2006 as an investment management company focused exclusively on global listed infrastructure
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LaGuardia Airport PPP, US
Transport North AmericaThe $4 billion LaGuardia Airport PPP project is one of the most significant large-scale airport PPPs to ever reach financial close in the US, and is also the largest PPP deal in North America this year
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Data Analysis: Tax-exempt PPPs in the US
Social & Defence North AmericaThe burgeoning pipeline of social infrastructure PPPs in the US could be supported by new legislation which could extend the use of tax-exempt private activity bonds
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Colón greenfield LNG-to-power, Panama
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaAES Corporation's Colón LNG-to-power project marks a number of milestones for Panama and the wider region. It is the largest combined-cycle facility and first ever LNG terminal in the country, and it is also the largest ever power investment in Central America
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Data Analysis: Rise in US social infrastructure deals
Social & Defence North AmericaSix social and water infrastructure PPP deals totaling $1.7 billion in value have reached financial close in the US over the past 14 months, double the number closed during the two years ending 31 December 2014, according to IJGlobal data
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Opportunities for Australian investors
Asia PacificInstitutional investors in Australia have fast growing pots of capital to invest, and have long been comfortable with infrastructure as an asset class. These investors are increasingly looking to foreign markets for assets, but more attractive new opportunities may be closer to home
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Data Analysis: Mexico’s booming midstream sector
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaIJGlobal data shows that Mexico’s midstream sector has been one of the country’s most active sectors in terms of both procurement and closed financings in the last couple of years
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Long Beach civic center, US
Social & Defence North AmericaThe $520 million Long Beach civic center PPP is the largest social infrastructure PPP to close in the US so far in 2016
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EIB lending to the UK post-Brexit
Europe“It would be very much more challenging for us to continue doing business as we are now in the case of a Brexit,” European Investment Bank vice-president Jonathan Taylor has told IJGlobal
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The outlook for SunEdison's projects
Renewables North AmericaSunEdison, the beleaguered US renewables developer, ended months of speculation on 21 April when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail not yet on track
Transport Asia PacificA memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the long-touted high-speed railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore looks set to be signed in June 2016. But Singapore may yet walk away if the richer city-state decides the project is not commercially viable
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Passante di Mestre toll road, Italy
Transport EuropeFor the Passante di Mestre, an operational real toll bypass around Venice, it has been a sluggish route to obtaining long-term project debt, but credit enhancement from the European Investment Bank has lifted the project's bond rating above that of Italian sovereign bonds
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Autopistas de Antofagasta toll road refinancing, Chile
Transport Latin AmericaChilean fund Inversiones Infraestructura Dos' refinancing of the Autopistas de Antofagasta toll road concessionaire demonstrates the high level of liquidity in the Chilean market, and a growing appetite among local institutional investors to provide direct loans to infrastructure projects
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Autopista del Sol toll road refinancing, Spain
Transport EuropeCintra has successfully raised €557.8 million ($631 million) of debt to refinance two of its Spanish toll roads, with institutions from Germany and the US providing funds. What may have initially seemed a straightforward transaction however, eventually proved more complicated
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UK 2016 Budget: Rail, road and oil win out
Oil & Gas EuropeThe UK’s 2016 budget was announced in Parliament today (16 March 2016) by Chancellor George Osborne, an annual event designed to set out the government’s fiscal plans for the coming years
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Data Analysis: North American midstream
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe last three quarters have witnessed an uptick in M&A activity in the North American midstream corporate sector as asset owners have looked to raise money through divestments
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Chicago Skyway acquisition, US
Transport North AmericaThe $2.8 billion acquisition of the Skyway Concession Company, which owns the lease for the Chicago Skyway toll road in Illinois, was the first such deal in the US for a trio of Canadian pension funds