The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a cornerstone investor in Greencoat UK Wind at its 2013 IPO, owned a 10.8% stake in the company.
Taiwan’s Bureau of Labor Funds furthers its alternatives exposure with a planned issuance of over $2bn in mandates for alternatives investments in H1 2015.
The $720m acquisition from ArcLight Capital will diversify Macquarie Infrastructure’s contracted power & energy portfolio.
The fund manager’s £100m commitment, which matches an earlier pledge by UK insurer Prudential, confirms full equity funding for the renewables project.
The investment, funded by the manager’s £979m UK inflation-linked debt platform, comes a day after London’s largest airport placed a €750m Eurobond.
The London-based fund manager has taken its portfolio of wind assets in the country to more than 100MW by adding a further 25MW.
Four bidders have entered the race for the tender on the PPP project of a second airport to serve India’s most affluent state, Maharashtra.
A consortium led by developer Plenary Group will design, build and manage a greatly expanded Milton healthcare facility in Milton, Ontario.
President Obama includes tax reform, a national infrastructure bank and other measures aimed at boosting infra investment, in the 2016 Executive Budget blueprint.
The DFIs will take direct ownership of Globeleq, currently owned by Actis Fund II, to help plug a funding gap at the early stage of project development.
Institutions will increasingly divert money into real assets and away from equities and bonds, according to research from Aquila Capital.
‘Next Gen NII’ bidders have another week to submit their bids for Singapore’s ‘public sector only’ telecoms network project.
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Investors fret over heightened competition for the few leases still to be sold by the Australian state after general elections fail to produce a clear winner.
The two companies have reached financial close on the Grandview Wind Farm with a $221.9m investment from BofA Merrill and JPM Capital Corporation.
CPPIB has secured a 25% stake in the Sydney tolled motorway A$2.5bn PPP, alongside investment manager QIC and toll roll operator Transurban.