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‘We will be on the road by the end of the year,’ the firm’s managing partner Serge Savasta tells Infrastructure Investor – and seeking to raise at least €1bn for Capenergie 5.
The bid values the London-listed company, which has a 6.3GW portfolio of power generating assets, at roughly $6.14bn and represents a 36% premium on its share price.
The German asset manager has raised more than half its final target for its sophomore global diversified fund, achieving a 60% re-up rate to date and having deployed more than 90% of Fund I.
The new firm will seek to raise $1.5bn to invest across a range of subsectors, including water treatment, waste management, decarbonisation ‘anything that leads towards a net-zero economy’ Astarte’s Siokos says.
With a tally that amounted to roughly 40% of 2021’s full-year total, Q1 will be a tough act to follow, setting high expectations for 2022.
‘It should be the first lever pulled in any carbon reduction efforts’ but continues to be overlooked by both the private and public sectors.
A number of macroeconomic factors have led the Australian infrastructure developer to enter the European market for the first time since its founding 18 years ago, says CIO Paul Crowe.
The energy transition may be fuelling inflation but it's also the driver behind emerging sub-sectors within the asset class, the firm's head of research, Gianluca Minella, explains.
The green investment specialist has tapped Iberdrola’s former managing director of offshore wind, Jonathan Cole, to serve as CEO of Corio Generation, which will be a standalone company.
The new fund will be closed-end and have a 25-year lifecycle, but will offer redemption options for those investors wishing to exit sooner, partners Daniel Pérez and Fabian Groene explain.