Jordan Stutts

The French firm has acquired the Canadian pension’s Airports Worldwide platform, growing its European portfolio in the sector and entering the US air transport sector.

Infrastructure and real estate investors are teaming up as a wave of capital washes over the sector, fuelled by a booming digital economy.

The investors purchased the minority interest in GFL, one of the largest North American players in the sector, from another group of equity holders – valuing the business at $4bn.

Canadian renewables firm Boralex snaps up the 163MW operating portfolio and 170MW pipeline.

Opportunistic development infra might have benefited from multiple expansion, but as the cycle turns, JPMorgan Asset Management's Anton Pil argues it's regulated cashflows that give the asset class the stabilising factor LPs want in their portfolios.

The investment commission for the public pension said a key initiative in the coming fiscal year is to build-out its private infrastructure portfolio.

The asset manager invested in a midstream joint venture from its private equity group and a solar developer from its energy and infrastructure strategy.

The firm is deploying an $816m fund that is focused on direct lending to mid-market energy and energy infrastructure companies.

The Australian asset manager has gained exposure to Spain, Chile, Colombia and Peru through the acquisition from the Spanish construction firm.

The US private equity firm plans to invest its second midstream fund, which closed in March on $750m, in what it describes as ‘in-basin’ infrastructure.