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The French firmโ€™s oil storage platform will boost its terminal ownership from one to nine after purchasing facilities in France, Spain and Portugal.
The firmโ€™s debut $2bn infra fundraise โ€“ which had garnered $409m โ€“ will be repositioned into a US transportation fund and a North America-focused energy fund.
A consortium led by Allianz and Chinaโ€™s Silk Road Fund each bought 5% of the Italian roads subsidiary Autostrade per lโ€™Italia, with more stake sales under consideration.
The city hopes to attract bidders with a compensation scheme for unsuccessful proposals.
The firm is also up against Infracapital for another heating asset in Sweden as it eyes a summer close for its $450m fund.
The Manila-based multilateral has also raised $4bn from its largest US dollar bond offering, as part of its plan to raise $25-30bn from the capital markets this year.
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The listed solar fund has picked up a further 28MW for its 467MW-strong portfolio while parent company NextEnergy Capital has also secured the refinancing of a recently bought portfolio in Italy.
Negative interest rates are pushing Japanese investors to see infrastructure as a fixed income substitute, giving an edge to the listed end of the asset class, panellists argued today.
The Dutch firmโ€™s successor to its โ‚ฌ300m Netherlands-focused vehicle will invest predominantly in fibre optic networks in Germany as it reaches a โ‚ฌ100m first close.
The Dutch manager is aiming for an end of May first close for Fund V and a summer final close for its maiden โ€˜coreโ€™ vehicle, which has already surpassed its โ‚ฌ350m target.
Targeting operational projects in Europe, the fund has been seeded with a โ‚ฌ40m contribution from 3i and a portfolio of 11 assets.
As a shake-up of the countryโ€™s pension system looms, investors remain focused on liquidity despite a growing knowledge of overseas infrastructure, delegates heard today.
Despite rising uncertainty, panellists today underlined the potential created by data services as the โ€˜fourth utilityโ€™ amid strong public support for infrastructure.
The mid-market manager has deployed batteries on 10 of its installed solar parks in tandem with developer and previous partner Anesco.
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