Zak Bentley
The UK pension platform has appointed Pioneer Investments’ former Western Europe chief a month after bolstering its investment and investor relations teams.
The company’s European division has seen its deal to take a 14% stake in Belgian grid operator Eandis fail to conclude after conditions were unfulfilled.
The UK Green Investment Bank was joined by Investec, Siemens Bank and Crédit Agricole in providing debt for the £142m project.
Aream and Greentale Capital, stocked full of ex-Quercus staff, are looking to raise ‘substantial’ amounts from institutional investors to create an industrial-scale renewable energy platform.
The pair have teamed up again to invest up to $100m in a company recently formed by First Wind’s former management team.
SL Capital and its joint venture partner Rock Rail secured debt contributions from six partners to purchase new trains for the East Anglia network.
The fund, which has already invested over €115m, secured a €100m investment from a Dutch pension fund as part of the final closing.
The acquisition of three plants represents a major ramp-up of the company’s fledgling wind power portfolio.
The Singaporean SWF has teamed up with GSA to fund the portfolio, spread across 11 British cities.
The monoline insurer has acquired its counterpart in a deal that adds £34bn to its non-US portfolio, now valued at about £10bn.