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Leonard Green’s acquisition of US Infrastructure Corp represents the firm’s foray into energy.
The Danish pension will provide a $200m mezzanine loan for the Cape Wind project.
The Melbourne-based fund manager’s second European office will be headed by Lars Bespolka, who was previously part of the firm’s New York team.
Fund II is targeting a final close of $1bn.
The fund is now free of timber assets as part of a wider Brookfield asset sale to Weyerhaeuser, worth $2.65bn.
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A final session of the Business 20 Taskforce on Investments and Infrastructure has set out three main aims, including a huge increase in project productivity.
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The Vnesheconombank subsidiary is teaming with the world’s fourth-largest company to construct mini power plants for manufacturing firms.
Bilfinger Berger Global Infrastructure is seeking to raise £70m.
A consortium led by Hong Kong’s Cheung Kong Infrastructure has agreed to acquire AVR Afvalverwerking, the Netherlands’ largest energy-from-waste company.
As it strives to extract better value for money from PFI deals, the UK government last week introduced a new code of conduct binding public and private parties.
The Melbourne-based funds manager has added two new hires to its debt team, and hopes to hire two more in the coming months to increase its presence abroad.
The External Affairs Minister presented India’s case during his three-day visit to the Scandinavian country.
Applications for the fifth round of the DOT’s stimulus programme total more than $9bn.
Institutional investors can bring a lot of positives to the UK water industry - but the bidders for Severn Trent were denied the chance to prove it.
The Central and Eastern European renewable and clean energy investor has now fully committed its Power Fund.