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 PE-backed company will lease the towers back to India’s Airtel after completion of the deal.
Electricity shortages are threatening Burma’s modernisation drive. Rather than a lightbulb moment, what the country really needs is a method to attract investments.
The London-listed fund will follow on its January initial investment by deploying a further £50m in sections of the network’s Line 9.
The $88bn Canadian pension is now the sole shareholder of ROADIS, a business that manages 1,644km over nine concessions.
PGGM’s former private markets CIO will shape the asset manager’s infrastructure strategy three years after the firm spun out its private equity unit, now Ardian.
The consortium members will own up to 50% of TCR each, with 3i investing about €200m.
Plenary and Marubeni are also part of a group that will fund a 7.3km extension to the $980m Gold Coast transit system.
American fears about the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have so far proven to be exaggerated.
The milestone, reached in just four months, comes after the Paris-based firm collected €350m for its energy transition vehicle.
The European fund manager has appointed three to the newly created position of senior partner shortly after sealing its latest deal.