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Infra funds – hoarding and splurging
Social & Defence 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
Social & Defence 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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GI Hub reveals Asia's resilience during high inflation
Social & Defence 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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Cegelog Military PPP, France
Social & Defence EuropeCegelog Military PPP reached financial close on Valentine's Day achieving a market first in France for a multi-billion-Euro project that managed to avoid market volatility brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shortly after FC
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Clackamas County Courthouse P3, Oregon
Social & Defence North AmericaOregon’s first courthouse P3 project reached financial close this summer, in a deal that will replace Clackamas County’s more than 80-year-old structure which has become functionally obsolete and seismically unsound
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The IJGlobal ESG Report 2022
Social & Defence EuropeWe are delighted today to be publishing the second issue of the IJGlobal ESG Report, delving into environmental, social and governance issues as they impact the international infrastructure and energy community
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Blue Phoenix Group acquisition, Netherlands
Social & Defence 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
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LIBOR phase out of Sterling and the US Dollar markets
Social & Defence North AmericaAfter decades of service, LIBOR effectively ceased to be used as an interest rate benchmark at the end of 2021 in most markets. Synthetic LIBOR will continue to be published for Sterling until the end of 2022 but only to support legacy deals that hadn’t transitioned to an RFR by the end of 2021
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Switching whip hands mid-thrash
Social & Defence EuropeIt’s time to pull up a seat – popcorn at the ready – to enjoy an almighty dingdong between borrower and lender as battle lines are re-drawn in a swiftly shifting infrastructure finance environment
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Washington DC Smart Street Lighting P3
Social & Defence North AmericaThe District of Columbia reached financial close on its inaugural P3 project - DC Smart Street Lighting - last month with a final debt package of roughly $160 million
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ESG – another person’s poison
Social & Defence North AmericaWhen ESG first reared its head, most folk furrowed brows and disappeared down the rabbit hole of debate which featured repeat analogies where meat and poison feature repeatedly
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Bernhard acquisition, US
Social & Defence North AmericaIn December 2021, DIF Capital Partners announced the completion of its acquisition of Bernhard - the largest privately-owned Energy-as-a-Service solutions company in the country
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Capital availability drives US project finance
Social & Defence North AmericaThe project finance market has been especially dynamic since the start of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. Here Will Marder of Wilmington Trust takes a look at how it has evolved in that time
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Infra Dig Podcast – The PPP Risk Game
Social & Defence EuropeThis week’s Infra Dig podcast – The PPP Risk Game – sees IJGlobal continue its series of interviews with infrastructure and energy experts, today’s fireside chat with established PPP insurance specialist Warren Beardall
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The Puerto Rican problem – resolved
Social & Defence EuropeBack in the mists of time… possibly before many IJGlobal subscribers had even launched their careers… monolines played a hugely significant role in the financing of big-ticket infra
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Infra Dig Podcast – The GI Hub Fireside Chat
Social & Defence Asia PacificThe latest in the IJGlobal Infra Dig podcast series was broadcast today – a fireside chat with Global Infrastructure Hub chief executive Marie Lam-Frendo
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Calm after (half of) the storm…
Social & Defence EuropeBlimey – what a week… and I’m not talking about everything that’s going on in the world, it’s a localised statement for those of us who toil daily to bring you news and analysis of the global financing of infrastructure and energy
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Red Sea Project utilities, Saudi Arabia
Social & Defence MENAAn ACWA Power-led consortium has achieved financial close on a utilities package that includes the provision of captive power – from renewable sources only – to supply the inputs and outputs for the off-grid Red Sea Project
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Birmingham Uni Accommodation PPP, UK
Social & Defence EuropeThe university accommodation sector in the UK has proved more resilient than initially expected with projects progressing cautiously under a slightly modified risk sharing model