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Matthieu Favas

Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
DG Infra, Gimv, Fortino and PMV are looking to inject an additional €47.2m in the indebted Dutch renewables producer.
The London-listed infrastructure group, which posted its half-year interim results yesterday, has already invested the £253m in dry powder it raised earlier this year.
The deal comes a few months after the firm reached a final close on its second fund.
Greater Gabbard is the first EIB credit-enhanced offshore electricity transmission project to receive a public rating in the UK.
The UK pension’s latest transaction comes a few weeks after it bought almost 9% of Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport.
The Gimv, Belfius joint venture will complement its fund manager activities with the financing of infrastructure projects from its balance sheet.
Ampere Equity Fund, so far managed by the sustainable investment arm of Dutch bank Triodos, is now fully invested.
The float could bring nearly £300m in proceeds to Terra Firma, which is looking to sell up to 40% of the British renewables group.
The Dublin Institute of Technology is part of the €650m of PPPs due to be delivered by the country’s development finance agency.
Fresh research calls for the creation of a fund performance index and ‘ring fencing’ of public investment levels to sustain development of global infrastructure markets.
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