• Fund analysis: Basalt Infrastructure Partners II

    Nazia Begum Renewables Europe

    UK-based manager Basalt Infrastructure Partners on 8 February announced final close for its second infrastructure fund at $1.3 billion

  • The most important US infra project (that may never happen)

    Jon Whiteaker Transport North America

    A project that has to be built, a funding gap of billions of dollars, and a President reluctant to plug it

  • Saudi gets solar right with Sakaka

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    After a number of false starts, Saudi Arabia’s first utility scale solar project – the 300MW Sakaka PV plant – is nearing financial close. The deal is the first step in the kingdom’s ambitious renewable energy plans

  • Data centres – led by the wrinkled nose

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Europe

    Data centres - they are increasingly flavour of the day among infrastructure funds with a good number of them shifting focus to target these assets. We are seeing increasing activity in this space and here we focus on an exciting area that is set to grow in coming years...

  • Private placements and investors' expanding appetites

    Beatrice Mavroleon Oil & Gas Europe

    A few years ago, private placements in infrastructure were primarily focused on refinancings. Now, the private placement market has evolved in a number of ways enabling institutional investors to increasingly participate in infrastructure M&A deals, to act on the origination of deals, and going in as primary investors

  • Kuwait PPP 10 years on

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    It is 10 years since Kuwait launched its PPP programme, which to date has delivered just one project, leading many to question whether procurement agency Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) will ever deliver most of its pipeline

  • Acquisition of 70% of ENGIE E&P International

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Private equity-backed operators have poured billions of dollars into the North Sea upstream industry over the last 18 months. Neptune Energy’s first deal to buy out ENGIE's portfolio seals the entry of another independent, but is likely to be the last in a flurry of sales of mega-sized upstream portfolios by majors

  • Spanish vultures circle for road killing

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    Spanish construction leaders are lining up for the nine national road projects that are presently in triage – defibrillator juiced up – to revive them in time for a short spell of public ownership before being hawked off to the private sector once more

  • The bluffer’s guide to infrastructure

    Angus Leslie Melville MENA

    Sitting down yesterday to an old-school lunch with a rare selection of industry veterans, discussion over a succulent rack of lamb and a cheeky bottle of red inevitably turned to the nostalgic “where are they now?” and swiftly evolved into the more waspish “how are they still there?”

  • Dublin Energy-from-Waste refinancing, Ireland

    Mako Matondo Renewables Europe

    The original financing of Covanta’s Dublin/Poolbeg energy-from waste (EfW) plant in 2014 took the best part a decade to close, unluckily catching the tail winds of the 2008 financial crisis. Fast forward to 14 December 2017, and Covanta has signed friendlier financial terms

  • Data Analysis: Europe and energy still funds' favourite

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Europe

    Europe and energy - across traditional energy and renewables - continue to be the most significant focus at the start of 2018 for unlisted, close-ended funds raising capital globally

  • Road to hell paved with burning coal…

    Angus Leslie Melville Power Asia Pacific

    Looking at the 2017 IJ League Tables, one thing leaps off the page – the number of coal-fired power plants that made it to financial close. That’s a surprising stat to pick out at first glance, and leaves you thinking that surely – in this increasingly sustainable world – involvement in such deals must be fairly challenging for lenders...

  • How to fix US infra

    Jon Whiteaker North America

    A leaked policy document has underwhelmed, so what should the Trump administration be doing to stimulate investment in infrastructure?

  • Aussie renewables rules

    Iliyan Videnov Renewables Asia Pacific

    Australia’s Minister for Energy and the Environment Josh Frydenberg this week insisted that Australia will hit its 2020 target of 33,500GWh of renewable energy, but that 6,000MW of new renewable capacity must be built by the end of 2019

  • KL-SG HSR – James Bond’s preferred project

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Asia Pacific

    Not many projects require all participants to sign the Official Secrets Act, but the Kuala Lumpur to Singapore High Speed Rail is anything but a run-of-the mill deal and every single adviser on it has signed on the dotted line… possibly in blood

  • Shadow cast over US solar

    Juliana Ennes Renewables North America

    The 30% tariff on imported solar panels imposed by Trump's government should have a larger impact on rooftop solar and distributed solar energy generation.

  • Listed infrastructure funds adapt to a changing environment

    Nazia Begum Renewables Europe

    Increasing interest rates, limited assets and competitive market conditions are steering UK listed infrastructure funds towards new markets in search of better returns

  • Vietnam: solar outlook 2018

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    Vietnam has eluded solar developers for several years. Deals appear set to finally get done in 2018, if not on international developers’ desired terms

  • Show me the (infra) money…

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    January is traditionally a time for reflection, but moreso it’s a time to plan for the year ahead and ensure you’re in position to make the most of the market… which is not so easy these days given, as one old chum puts it nicely: “It’s hard to eke out an existence when there’s a dearth of opportunity”



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