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 financing represents 40% of the total cost to build seven new schools in the Home Counties, a project which will also receive £10.2m of funding from London-listed INPP.
Recent controversies have caused more fear than harm for France-focused infrastructure investors. But the relative scarcity of assets is leading them to diversify across markets.
The US buyout firm, which started marketing the fund in mid-2013 with a target of $1.5bn, has enlisted support from 160 investors.
The Spanish buyout firm expects to double its assets under management through the acquisition of five investment vehicles totalling €370m.
The move comes after the UK defied US warnings against joining the platform by pledging to become a founding member last week.
Borealis, AP3, Folksam and AP1 have agreed to buy the country’s second-largest power network, allowing the Finnish utility to post about €6.3bn in sales gain from the divestment of its distribution activities.
The Chinese sovereign wealth fund sees East Africa as one of the most attractive developing regions at a time of return compression in developed countries.
Investors underline the importance of cold-headedness in an environment where hard-to-quantify risks can hide behind apparent value.
The fund manager has reached a first close on the closed-ended vehicle, bringing it past halfway towards its $2bn target.
Alex Kesseler, Antin’s third senior recruit in recent months, joins at a time when the fund manager is deploying its freshly raised Fund II.