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1 month ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Stefano Berra |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) OPTrust has launched the sale of its 40% stake in Spanish transport group Globalvia, with several high-profile bidders mulling placing non-binding offers, said sources familiar with the situation. Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has tapped Jefferies to advise it on a bid ahead of a deadline on 27 March, and is seen as one of the frontrunners for the auction, according to the sources.
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2 months ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) French rooftop solar developer Orion Energies plans to raise fresh equity for its growth ambitions, sources familiar with the situation said, but this process – and the country’s wider solar rooftop sector – now risks being hit by the French government’s new plans to reduce tariffs for rooftop solar installations.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Brendan Malkin |Stefano Berra |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) OPTrust is set to launch as soon as this month a process to sell its 40% stake in Globalvia, with several infrastructure investors expressing interest “with various degrees of intensity” due to the complexities of the deal.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Stefano Berra |Brendan Malkin |Rouhan Sharma
Infrastructure funds are circling Madrid-headquartered environmental services firm Urbaser ahead of the multi-billion euro sale set to kick off this month, with the deal likely to be broken up due to potential bidders’ interest in specific assets. The process, which is due to formally start around mid-October, could fetch an enterprise value of EUR 6bn or even higher, sources familiar said, making it one of the largest M&A transactions ongoing in Europe at the moment.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Rouhan Sharma
A preferred bidder for the sale of up to 100% of French renewables IPP Arkolia is expected to be selected soon, with Mirova said by sources to be a well-placed bidder in this process. Mirova and one other undisclosed investor have been described by the sources familiar as “serious” bidders and in the final-stage discussions for the deal, which was launched in the first quarter of this year with BNP Paribas and Nomura Greentech as sell-side advisors.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Stefano Berra |Micaela Osella |Antonio Fabrizio |Keane Hoo
A consortium of OMERS Infrastructure and DWS Infrastructure is set to buy Italian railway station business Grandi Stazioni Retail from a team led by Antin Infrastructure Partners, said four sources familiar with the situation. OMERS and DWS are paying an enterprise value under EUR 1.5bn for the company, according to the sources. The business, which leases retail and advertising space in Italy’s 14 largest train stations, is being sold off around EUR 95m of EBITDA expected for 2024.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Lucy Chapman
Intelligence Italy is looking to catch up with other European countries in offshore wind, with several gigawatts of development planned. But further clarity on regulation and other areas will be needed for the plans to translate into reality.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
community.ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio
French investment firm Epopee Gestion has reached the first close on its maiden infrastructure equity fund, which focuses on low-carbon infrastructure investments across western France. The Brest, Brittany-headquartered firm told Infralogic it has raised EUR 100m for the Epopee Infra Climat I fund, which aims to support a dozen greenfield projects in sustainable mobility, clean energy production and climate change adaptation sectors, as well as maritime infrastructure.
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May 3, 2023 | 
community.ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio
Spain’s Ecological Transition Ministry in January issued environmental impact statements, or permits, known as Declaración de Impacto Ambiental (DIA), to some 150 greenfield renewable energy schemes, all above 50 MW in size and totalling some 30 GW of capacity. The announcement, the largest approval of new Clean Energy projects ever by the Spanish government, is a boon to Spanish solar, which represent some 88% of the approved schemes.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
community.ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio
Sacyr has placed PPPs at the heart of its growth-focused 2021-2025 strategic plan, which includes making its concession businesses the company’s main contributor to its EBITDA. It wants to build a “portfolio with low-risk demand, selecting projects mainly with availability payments or risk mitigation,” Sacyr Concesiones CEO Rafael Gomez del Rio tells Infralogic.
