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 London-based firm’s investment in Service Terminal Rotterdam, part-owned by Russia’s LUKOIL, is its second in the port sector.
Ali Kazmi joins from Deutsche Bank, where she was a director within the corporate banking and securities team.
The sale of a third of the UK’s largest port group provides an exit to Goldman Sachs and Infracapital, which bought the business in 2006 alongside Borealis and GIC.
The London-listed company has now deployed the whole of the £131m it raised last November.
The fresh debt raise by the Arcus, PSP and AMP-backed rolling stock lessor comes shortly after the £1.16bn refinancing of the UK’s Angel Trains last November.
The London-listed fund, which just closed a £123m school PPP alongside Aviva and the EIB, is also positioning itself to tap “significant” opportunities in the US market.
The transaction will allow INPP, a London-listed fund advised by the UK manager, to have a “first look” at US opportunities explored by El-Paso based Hunt.
The £20bn pension is looking to form new fund relationships as it creates a long-term, income generating investment pool of up to £1bn.
The construction of the Moscow-Kazan line, to be implemented as a PPP, would be the largest infrastructure project currently under development in the country.
The Dutch fund manager has acquired 49% of a Californian solar farm as it ramps up its investments in North America.