Andy Thomson
Aravis Energy, a Zurich-based venture capital firm, has sold LuciaWind, a Spanish wind farm operator, to Swiss utility EBM. The deal is illustrative of the trend for entrepreneurs and VC firms to roll up renewable energy plants into portfolios they can sell to utilities and large infrastructure funds.
The emerging markets specialist has launched a new energy supply and services business in tandem with Singapore-listed corporate KS Energy, which is chaired by Indonesian entrepreneur Kris Wiluan.
Arcus Infrastructure Partners reports “very good progress” with its refinancing of portfolio company Angel Trains as three UK rolling stock firms look to take advantage of bond market enthusiasm.
Guarantees made by Russia to clinch its first PPPs may not be conventional, but they are necessarily pragmatic.
Challenges – and how to confront them 2010-04-28 Andy Thomson <P>It’s a strange anomaly that the US, the world’s largest economy, is, in the context of infrastructure, effectively an emerging market. As cited in this month’s keynote interview with legendary investment banker Felix Rohatyn, current esti
The financial services firm has bolstered its energy, infrastructure and utility team in London by recruiting Jeremy Harris and Mark Lillie.
If anyone needs reminding that political risk can torpedo a public-private partnership, a debacle on a French-governed island makes for an instructive case study.
The UK’s Institute of Directors, a non-party political group representing the interests of business, has called for the proceeds of future bank privatisations to go towards the country’s £500bn infrastructure need over the next ten years. It predicts the sales could raise £50bn.
The latest fundraising figures are encouraging - and point to a new trend in the way managers are raising capital.
Macquarie Funds Group has announced two new hires in its private equity division, one of which is former Partners Group executive Mike Siebert who joined the firm’s Sydney office when it was launched in April 2008.