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Zak Bentley

Zak Bentley is a senior reporter at Infrastructure Investor based in London. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title. He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global renewable energy market, as well as the wider infrastructure market. Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
Hopeful transition investors face dual challenge of development pipelines becoming operational and profitable amid valuation and supply-chain challenges.
Verus has not paused on recommending value-add funds to clients, although ‘there's a pretty high bar to allocate’, managing director John Nicolini tells us.
The Swiss manager is poised to return to market for its Direct Infrastructure series after raising $6.4bn for its predecessor in February 2022.
US Capitol
While renewables were spared curbs in Texas, recent legislation in the state and nationally underwhelmed infrastructure investors.
The requests for renegotiations of projects in New York and Massachusetts follow a similar request from a project in Massachusetts last year.
The research also devised a new metric for real estate investors to make what Macquarie believes to be the first direct comparison between the two asset classes.
The move comes a little more than two years after BlackRock closed the Global Renewable Power Fund III on $4.8bn, exceeding a $2.5bn target.
Dollar reveal hidden
After a dismal Q1, managers will need to adapt to continue raising capital in 2023. We probed the market to find out what they can expect.
aerial view of Lower Manhattan. New York
Global Infrastructure Partners V, which is targeting $25bn, is also thought to have between $5bn and $7bn in soft commitments still to come.
Gautam Bhandari tells us his new role ‘formalises something I’ve been doing for quite some time’ as fellow co-founder Adil Rahmathulla prepares to depart in June 2024.
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