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 last quarter of 2013, which also saw the number of large transactions dwindle by 38%, is the slowest since Q1 2012.
The asset manager has already invested 86% of its renewables vehicle, which targets small and medium-sized wind farms in the UK.
The CHF350m issue, the EIB’s first CAB transaction of 2014, comes after a record year for issuance of the green instrument.
The pledge brings the total capital raised by the Italian firm’s second fund to €740m.
The move is part of a spat of promotions at the Anglo-American firm, which has also appointed a new of counsel within its project finance practice.
The French lender and its public partner, along with Eiffage and Norddeutsche Landesbank, will spend €53m on the building of a new campus in Lille.
The proceeds will be used by the two facilities, which have a combined capacity of 50MW, to refinance some of their construction costs.
Our March Annual Review will reveal the winners of our 2013 Awards – an opportunity to reflect on what infrastructure has achieved over the last 12 months.
The Triton Knoll farm will now have a capacity of between 600MW and 900MW, down from its original target of 1.2GW.
The Merseyside facility, in which the firm and its partners plan to invest more than €295m, will have a power generation capacity of 49MW.