Infrastructure
Ardian increases stake in CLH Group
Ardian has increased its holding in Spanish oil storage and transportation firm Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos (CLH) to 15%.
Terra Firma reaps £234m in Infinis IPO
Terra Firma portfolio company Infinis Energy has listed on the London Stock Exchange in an IPO valuing the business at ТЃ780m.
Are infrastructure deals the key to the Nordic market?
In the quest for high-quality deals that are convincing enough for banks to back and make investors excited about the coming fundraising round, Nordic players have looked towards infrastructure.
EQT buys offshore communication platform for NOK 1.5bn
EQT has acquired offshore communication operator Tampnet from Hitecvision for NOK 1.5bn.
DG Infra Yield acquires 80.1% in special purposes vehicle
The joint infrastructure fund of Gimv and Dexia Bank Belgium has acquired 80.1% of OPTIMEP 4.
Impax invests €20m in wind farm project
Impax and portfolio company Epuron have acquired French wind Parc Eolien de la Chaude Vallee for €20m.
AXA acquires 10% of CLH Group
AXA Private Equity has acquired a 10% stake in Spain’s Compañia Logistica de Hidrocarburos, in a deal that values the oil storage and transportation firm at €3.6bn.
New Value backs SIAG capital increase
New Value has subscribed to a capital increase carried out by its current portfolio company, Solar Industries AG (SIAG).
Platina acquires 10 Italian solar plants
Renewable energy specialist Platina Partners has acquired 10MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in Italy from family-owned construction firm the Degennaro Group.
Terra Firma buys Rete Rinnovabile for €670m
Private equity group Terra Firma has purchased Rete Rinnovabile, the largest solar power firm in Italy, in a deal worth €670m.
PE groups circle Spanish infrastructure asset
The Spanish utility firm Endesa, controlled by Italian giant Enel SpA, is reportedly examining the sale of 80% of its gas transport and distribution business in an effort to reduce the group's borrowings.
EUROPE - Environmental infrastructure: high returns, low risk?
Combining the low risk profile of traditional infrastructure investing with the potentially high returns from clean tech investing can prove a winning formula, argues Jamie Richards, partner at Foresight Group, in a recent video interview with unquote"...
FRANCE - 123Venture back EUR 4m renewables investments
123Venture, alongside renewable energy business Frey Nouvelles Energies, has invested EUR 2.5m into Solar Mimizan, an integrated solar power plants constructor and operator, and EUR 1.5m into Mariagaz, a biogas power plants operator.
FRANCE - AXA PE purchase B&B's French wind farm portfolio
AXA Private Equity, via its infrastructure fund, has acquired Babcock & Brown's French wind farm assets.
SPAIN - N+1-backed Eolia sells wind farms to RWE
According to reports, N+1-backed Eolia Renovables has agreed to sell its 49% stake in three wind farms in Soria to co-owner RWE.
Evolving infrastructure
In recent years the amount of capital being raised for dedicated infrastructure funds has risen substantially and the sector has emerged into a major new area for investment. With raising and deploying capital in the traditional LBO market becoming increasingly...
SPAIN – N+1-backed Eolia Renovables gets EUR 80m loan
N+1-backed renewable energy specilaist Eolia Renovables has received an EUR 80m loan from Banesto in order to guarantee its operations until 2010.
UK - HgCapital expands UK Wind Farm portfolio
HgCapital's portfolio company RidgeWind has acquired equity rights to a pipeline of 90MW wind farms from co-developer Wind Prospects. RidgeWind has also completed the ТЃ18m project financing of the Bagmoor Wind Farm.
Infra a shock
The liquidity bubble came to define the term infrastructure and gave a false picture of market depth. Private equity firmsт keen on snatching a piece of the infrastructure pie should be warned: there may not be enough to go around.
UK - One Equity invests $150m in Clipper Windpower
One Equity Partners will invest $150m into Clipper Windpower Plc, a manufacturer of wind turbines and developer of wind energy projects. The new funds will be used to finance Clipperтs ongoing working capital requirements and strategic supply chain initiatives....