If governments are serious about partnering with the private sector to finance new infrastructure, sound and sustainable regulation is a must, argues Philip Borel.
The numbers relating to new investment opportunities opening up in the infrastructure space keep getting bigger. For example: $26 trillion (that’s right: $26,000,000,000,000) is the investment required to meet the world’s energy demand in 2030, says Bill Macaulay, boss of energy-focused private equity specialist First Reserve Corporation. Of the total, “only” $6 trillion will be […]
If governments are serious about partnering with the private sector to finance new infrastructure, sound and sustainable regulation is a must, argues Philip Borel.
Cressida Hogg, the company’s recently appointed managing partner, pointed to UK electricity companies as potential future investments as the London listed vehicle posted its year end results.
Cressida Hogg, the company’s recently appointed managing partner, pointed to UK electricity companies as potential future investments as the London listed vehicle posted its year end results.
Cressida Hogg, the company’s recently appointed managing partner, pointed to UK electricity companies as potential future investments as the London listed vehicle posted its year end results.
Cressida Hogg, the company’s recently appointed managing partner, pointed to UK electricity companies as potential future investments as the London listed vehicle posted its year end results.
Cressida Hogg, the company’s recently appointed managing partner, pointed to UK electricity companies as potential future investments as the London listed vehicle posted its year end results.
If governments are serious about partnering with the private sector to finance new infrastructure, sound and sustainable regulation is a must.
Just in time, a new IFC facility addresses the paucity of funding for infrastructure in the emerging markets.
LPs must seize current market conditions as a chance to push back on terms and secure better alignment of interests, Joe Dear said at a conference in LA. Fellow panelist Harold Bradley, CIO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, lamented 'we are feeding a fee machine'.
The chairman of Permira says he has never experienced such a ‘lack of clarity’ over the economic outlook and has warned investors that things may get worse before recovery. Megadeals will be replaced by smaller investments for 'a very long time', he says.
A proposed European directive differentiates between private equity and hedge funds, but has sparked concern among the European mid-market that managers and portfolio companies will be burdened with ‘costly and unwarranted’ reporting standards.
Intense competition has sent bid prices to more than triple the original reserve price for one of the three nuclear power station sites up for sale in Britain. A group of bidders for one site in Essex that included Spain's Iberdola and France's GDF Suez have dropped out of competition.
London based law firm SJ Berwin is planning to open an office in Dubai, the first for the firm in the Middle East.