Zak Bentley
The utility has become Swissgrid’s largest owner after buying Alpiq’s 30% share in the business, in which pensions platform IST3 also has an indirect holding.
The UK fund manager has secured funds from a group of international banks for a wind project set to be among Italy’s largest.
The French government has sold off majority stakes in Lyon and Nice airports to two consortia comprising a handful of domestic and European players.
After months of uncertainty, the UK government has set a £290m budget for each of the next two renewable energy auctions for ‘less established technologies’.
The financial close of the Kocaeli facility, also backed by Canada’s EDC, comes less than three weeks after the trio helped secure €770m for another hospital in the country’s third-largest city.
Matthew Vickerstaff, who joins the Infrastructure and Projects Authority in a newly created role, will also serve as its deputy CEO.
The pair have become the latest owners of Poland’s A1 motorway just days after a minority stake in the asset was sold by John Laing to First State.
The deal, which will effectively give the pair 96% of France’s A41 concessionaire, sees the two firms directly own 46.1% of the operating company.
Mike Jensen, investment chief of the Lancashire County Pension Fund, tells us about the institution's imminent pooling with the London Pensions Fund Authority to become the Local Pensions Partnership.
The trio has backed a subsidiary of CEZ Group as the latter seeks to make ‘critical infrastructure investments’ in the Bulgarian electricity network.