Argo Infrastructure Partners, led by ex-JPMorgan infra CIO Jason Zibarras, is managing the new platform, targeting large institutional investors.
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Blackstone will provide financial support and oversight to GridLiance, a newly-formed company that will partner with public power utilities to develop, own and operate transmission infrastructure.
The UK-listed investment firm is acquiring a 75% interest in the Zaanstad Penitentiary project from Ballast Nedam.
The London-based firm’s investment in Service Terminal Rotterdam, part-owned by Russia’s LUKOIL, is its second in the port sector.
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The UK’s green bank is committing £200m, with a major sovereign wealth fund and UK-based pensions contributing the rest.
The country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications is seeking market views on the project to build a new cargo port in Kaunas.
When investing in infrastructure, making people understand the value they will receive from a project is key in gaining public acceptance.
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.
Several organisations, including Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank, are financing rolling stock for the ScotRail franchise.
It is the second of four utility-scale projects to be sold to DIF by Canadian Solar this year.
The joint acquisition of a 45% stake in the Los Ramones II projects marks the first foreign investment in a PEMEX midstream asset.
New South Wales’ planned sell-off of electricity poles and wires assets is set to proceed as the Liberal-National coalition government is re-elected.
The London-listed company has now deployed the whole of the £131m it raised last November.
Infra head Guillaume Fleuti (pictured) says it will provide the support until the end of 2017 to schemes identified in the country’s National Infrastructure Plan.
The closing, relating to a facility in Ankara, is the third major deal of its kind in the last few months and is supported by Germany’s Siemens.