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 Spanish developer will hunt for construction projects in America ex-Mexico.
Spain’s Bankia and FCC are set to sell the infrastructure business, which concluded a €750m fundraising round in 2013, for up to €420m.
The UK pension platform has topped the £630m it has already raised for its two first funds with a large co-investment.
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The deal is the second sealed by the UK firm’s debut infra fund following a Finnish gas deal last week.
The law firm has hired its rival’s global co-head of energy and its renewable energy chief as it ramps up its London business.
The London-listed firm will fund acquisitions through debt facilities and proceeds from recent equity raises, the latest of which was concluded earlier in June.
The investment is the first by the UK asset manager's debut infrastructure fund, which it is currently raising with a £500m target.
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The Russian sovereign wealth fund, which plans to use part of its funding quota from the country's National Welfare Fund to raise debt, will also provide $3.3bn along with banks and international co-investors.
The A$117bn sovereign institution says its decision to pay A$7m to AustralianSuper was taken to “avoid ongoing legal costs” and focus on investing.
The emerging markets-focused firm has sold Globeleq Mesoamerica to New York-listed SunEdison and promoted Torbjorn Caesar, the head of its energy unit.