Mirzaan Jamwal

Ove Arup will act as technical consultant and Norton Rose as counsel on a project to build and operate an international airport at Lekki, in south-west Nigeria.

The Indian infrastructure firm will extend the privately owned Gurgaon Metro Rail system it is currently developing, building an extra 6.5km rail link under a 98-year concession contract.

The private asset manager has acquired a 26MW portfolio of gas-fired power plants from UK Coal on behalf of the Lancashire County Pension Fund. Capital Dynamics will manage the assets, which will be owned solely by the pension.

The New South Wales government will proceed with the 33km WestConnex motorway to link the west of Sydney with its airport and Port Botany. The project will be funded using ‘a blend of private and public financing,’ including tolls and money from the state’s infrastructure fund.

Twenty-two lenders, led by Bank Central Asia, will finance the proposed greenfield toll road, which is part of the Trans-Java highway. The project is being developed by Malaysian-Indonesian company Lintas Marga Sedaya.

The London-listed infrastructure fund has acquired full ownership of the Dorset Fire & Rescue PFI project, and increased its interest in Ealing Care Homes to 84%. The fund is advised by InfraRed Capital Partners.

The new shares issue will finance the acquisition of three operational assets in the UK and Netherlands from parent John Laing Group.

The Swedish developer has sold equity interests to co-investor Innisfree for £66m, but retains hard services contracts at the Midlands hospitals.

Life insurers will be allowed to invest in SPVs of private firms and in more debt instruments rated lower than AAA.

Hudson Clean Energy’s Shaun Kingsbury will join the Green Investment Bank as chief executive. Six new non-executive directors are also on-board as the GIB moves closer to becoming fully operational later this year.