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Dendermonde Prison PPP, Belgium
Social & Defence EuropeThe procurement journey for Dendermonde prison started in 2009 when the Belgian Ministry of Justice began the tender process for 4 correctional facilities, giving bidders the chance to bid on all projects as a package even though each was to be delivered under separate procurement agreements
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Home workers of the revolution
Social & Defence EuropeComrades, we gather here today to pay our respects to a way of life that passed earlier this year having lived to a ripe old age… and evolved into the equivalent of a cantankerous old git who’s long overdue a planting
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University of Iowa Utility System, US
Social & Defence North AmericaSince financial close of the University of Iowa’s Utility System, the US P3 market has seen an aggressive uptick in colleges seeking private partners upgrade and operate cleaner, more efficient systems. Investors, meanwhile, see these transactions as both straightforward and lucrative
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M&A in the Covid-19 epoch: APAC perspective
Social & Defence Asia PacificCovid-19's impact appeared first in listed markets. Investors in late January were slowly pricing in the disruptions. Today, however, a popular Asia Pacific infrastructure index shows not a prolonged bloodbath but glimmers of a V-shaped recovery. IJGlobal reports on the pandemic's influence on origination, structuring and execution in the region's private market
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Falling off a cliff – infra style
Social & Defence EuropeAs you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant market… for now. But dark clouds are massing...
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Nobody does air-quotes any more
Social & Defence EuropeThere’s been a very quiet revolution over the last month that hardly anyone has noticed… because we’re all working from home. This seismic shift has been in the attitude to WFH, if you’ll excuse what appears to be teenage text-speak
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Covid-19: Coping strategies for APAC
Social & Defence Asia PacificDuring the first half of April (2020) IJGlobal has been asking 10 project finance lenders and advisers across Asia Pacific financial hubs Sydney and Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong about the impacts of Covid-19
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IFC: smart solutions for urban and remote communities
Social & Defence Asia PacificIFC's East Asia and Pacific director Vivek Pathak and country manager for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands Thomas Jacobs talked to IJGlobal about their urgent work in promoting "smart solutions to the problems of urbanisation", such as waste to energy plants and affordable housing townships, as well as bringing new models for developing off-grid energy infrastructure
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Living in unprecedented times
Social & Defence EuropeAt times like these – and there haven’t been any of those – it’s hard not to peer into the rear-view mirror to draw comparisons with yesteryear. However, that’s not possible in these unprecedented times… a term that’s already ageing badly… as coronavirus sweeps the planet
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Fundraising in the time of Covid-19
Social & Defence EuropeThe novel Coronavirus is posing some challenges to the managers in raising mode. But the market is strong and resilient enough to face them
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Friday 13th – nightmares abound
Social & Defence EuropeWhen Friday The Thirteenth rolls around and the mind turns to the darker aspects of work in search of an editorial, it usually takes longer for a theme to emerge from the maelstrom of global infra/energy news
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Why aren’t you in a blue funk?
Social & Defence EuropeA question that more people need to be asking themselves these days is: “Why then hell aren’t you in a blue funk?”
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Miami-Dade Courthouse, Florida
Social & Defence North AmericaAfter years of delays, Plenary Justice Miami has reached financial close on the Miami-Dade County civil and probate courthouse that will replace an existing courthouse so old that it once held a trial for Chicago mobster Al Capone
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Valentine’s Bonus – bankers are blue
Social & Defence EuropeWord from the banking community has it that if you’re holding out for a heart-warming letter from your boss in the coming weeks – one that leaves you in little doubt how much you’re loved – well… you’re in for a nasty surprise
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Vinča waste-to-energy PPP, Serbia
Social & Defence EuropeA consortium of Suez, Itochu and Marguerite closed late last year on a landmark waste-to-energy PPP project to transform waste management in Serbia’s capital city
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2020: Year of the debt fund?
Social & Defence North AmericaWhile the gap between equity and debt fundraising was still wide in 2019, Q4 figures highlight a potentially new trend
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Asia's first infra loan securitisation platform
Social & Defence Asia PacificClifford Capital and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank announced last month the establishment of Bayfront Infrastructure Management – a platform to mobilise institutional capital for infrastructure debt in Asia. IJGlobal spoke with both equity holders to learn more
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IJInvestor Awards 2019 Rising Star – Mounir Corm
Social & Defence EuropeTalking to Mounir Corm, one immediately realises that you are dealing with someone whose interests and skills reach far beyond the financial universe
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PF bankers declare war on The Man
Social & Defence EuropeOne thing a hack never wants to do is to give credit to another title for making a fair fist of a story that sits firmly in his/her own sector… but today, this infra scribbler is swallowing pride while doffing a cap to the FT for writing a story that impacts infrastructure finance on a global basis