Matthieu Favas
Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The pension has paid £153m for nearly half of six British wind farms, bringing its total investment in infrastructure to more than $1.8bn.
Robert Doekes, currently head of finance at the Dutch firm, will become DIF’s fifth partner.
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The news provides a boost to the government’s £375bn National Infrastructure Plan, partly funded by £20bn of divestments due to include its Eurostar stake.
Ferngas Nordbayern, which owns and operates a network of more than 2,100km, is a former subsidiary of power giant E.ON.
The $150m project, backed by the duo alongside Norfund, is East Africa’s first independent large-scale wind project.
The London-listed fund has paid £21m for 12MW worth of UK plants, its first acquisition since acquiring an initial portfolio of 18 renewables assets in August.
The UK pension has acquired an additional stake in Sydney’s airport link, its second such investment in the country in less than a year.
The fund manager’s latest acquisition provides local private equity firm Ironbridge with its second realisation in the sector this year.
The Greater Gabbard transmission project, owned by the firm alongside Balfour Beatty and Equitix, is the first UK asset to make use of the EIB’s credit enhancement scheme.
The transaction – the fourth PPP jointly sealed by DIF and Vinci in the country – comes at the end of an eventful year for the Dutch firm.