The UK fund manager has paid $450m for Beacon Rail, in a deal that also saw the company order an additional 25 locomotives.
Andrew McNaughton, who had only been in the role for just over a year, has left the UK developer with immediate effect.
The Canadian private equity firm appointed Jackie Forrest as vice president of its energy research team.
Investec’s infra division signed two energy-focused credit facility deals, both involving US fund managers.
The New York retirement system has committed $300m to IFM’s Global Infrastructure Fund and $200m to First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Fund II.
The transaction is part of the overall acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership by the £320bn asset manager.
The UK solar fund, which completed its £85.6m IPO last month, is targeting £750m over the next three to five years.
The proceeds will be used to acquire additional assets for the social infrastructure fund, which is now invested in assets worth around $1.2bn.
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Highly successful recent auctions will help Australian states drive through privatisation programmes.
The construction of the 60km stretch of road will involve more than €300m of debt provided by Bank of Ireland, the EIB, Natixis and Société Générale.
The London-based developer will provide 70% of the equity involved in the $320m hospital deal.
The German fund manager has now committed around €200m to six investments in Germany, the UK, Ireland and France.
A fund managed by Hastings Funds Management has teamed with China Merchants to win the long-term lease in a A$1.75bn deal.
The average size of unlisted infrastructure funds has been increasing since 2011.
Mahmood Hashim Al Kooheji, chief executive of the Gulf-based investor, will join the Russian fund’s board of international advisors.