Press Releases from InfraNews (21 total)
Why the Eurozone Sovereign Crisis is a Bad Thing for Infrastructure Investors
By Peter Allison
To say that fear stalked European financial markets during August is something of an understatement. While temperatures rose in Greece, Italy and Spain,…
Will KKR, Munich Re T-Solar Investment Kickstart Renewables M&A In Spain?
By Peter Kneller
The Spanish solar market has been experiencing some strange goings-on of late, most notably KKR and Munich Re’s investment in Grupo T-Solar’s 168MW…
InfraNews Case Study: Multicurrency Programme Sets a Precedent for Infra Investo …
The NOK3.8bn (EUR477.8m) of sterling, dollar and kroner bonds that a venture between UBS International Infrastructure Fund and CDC Infrastructure issued in the second half…
InfraNews Case Study: BAA Broadens its Investor Base with Inaugural US Dollar Bo …
UK airports operator BAA refinanced most of its outstanding medium-term bank debt in June with an inaugural USD1bn bond issue that significantly furthered the company’…
Why Europe’s Airport Sector is Poised for an M&A Boom
By Michael Dunning
Infrastructure deals in the European airports sector have been few and far between in the last 18 months. Other than Global Infrastructure Partners’…
What next for infra bonds and refis amidst Europe's sovereign crises?
Infrastructure projects looking to refinance bank debt in the capital markets will face an uphill task for the rest of this year - and probably…
Sector Spotlight - Q2 2011 European Environmental Roundup
By Peter Kneller
The European renewable energy sector saw a heightened number of mid-sized M&A deals in the second quarter of 2011, with a strong showing…
Europe in Crisis: Spain - A Resilient PPP Market?
InfraNews’ feature by Miguel Peña Azpilicueta, BBVA's Executive Director of Project Finance
Little doubt remains as to the profound effect that the financial and sovereign debt…
Turkey: Yet To Fulfil Its Ambition
On Sunday, June 12, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) managed to retain its position as the country’s ruling party, and also increase its share…
PGGM Puts Direct Investments and JVs at the Heart of its Infrastructure Investin …
By Michael Dunning
GP managed infrastructure funds have been casting an anxious look over their shoulders as a growing number of institutional investors have chosen to…
How Real a Threat to Infra Funds is the Direct Investing Phenomenon?
By Andrew Cavenagh
Recent infrastructure auctions have resulted in pension funds and insurance companies outbidding infrastructure funds in order to win prominent infrastructure assets.
In 2010,…
The Trials And Tribulations Of The EC's Project Bond Initiative
By Brendan Malkin
Everything seems to be up for grabs. The EC and the EIB spent between last September and February of this year road showing…
Funds Round-Up Q1 2011: Ports, Energy Assets Dominate Q1 Infra M&A Activity
By Michael Dunning
The steady ticking-over of trade in infrastructure assets continued in the first quarter of 2011 and since InfraDeals’ last infrastructure funds round-up at…
Case Study: Macquarie’s GBP626m Moto Refinancing Taps the High-Yield Bond Mark …
By Andrew Cavenagh
The Macquarie-led consortium of Australian and New Zealand pension funds that acquired the Moto motorway services chain in the UK in 2006 came…
EDF and Iberdrola Buybacks Suggest Renewables Upturn
By Peter Kneller
The European renewable energy sector has not had a particularly happy time of late. Over the past few years renewable energy production has…
Sector Spotlight - Q1 2011 Renewable Energy Roundup
By Peter Kneller
Regulatory changes formed a large part of the news in the renewable energy sector in Europe in the first three months of the…
Is The UK Government Meeting Its Promises On Infrastructure Investment?
By Brendan Malkin
Just 15 seconds into his Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) speech last October, George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor, trumpeted the need for “prioritising” investment…
GIP’s Gatwick Airport Bond Refinancing is a Hit with Investors
By Andrew Cavenagh
The refinancing of Gatwick Airport acquisition debt in the second half of February – with GBP600m (USD980m) of bonds and a fresh bank…
The Debt Selling Game
By Brendan Malkin
More than ever, the fortunes of project finance lenders are in the hands of powerful forces they have little or no control over.…
What Does the Future Hold for Infrastructure Investors?
In early February InfraNews hosted its fifth Infrastructure Investors Forum: Europe (IIF Europe) in which fund managers, direct investors and banks talked about their hopes…
UK Infra Still Under Pressure Despite Fundraising Frenzy
Two trends have marked the world of infrastructure investing in recent months. On the face of it, both of them should be good news for…
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