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3 weeks ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Stefano Berra |Brendan Malkin |Rouhan Sharma
News (Intelligence) UBS Asset Management is seeking to sell its direct infrastructure equity and debt investment business, which has recently grappled with senior departures and slow fundraising. The Swiss group earlier this year started a process overseen internally by its own bankers to find a buyer for the unit, which has around USD 6.6bn of assets under management, said sources familiar with the situation.
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3 weeks ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Nick Roumpis |Brendan Malkin |Stefano Berra |Lloyd Vassell
The sale by Tetragon Financial Group of its majority stake in Equitix is in its final round with mainly US investors targeting the UK infrastructure fund manager. Sources said that at least four investors, comprising Franklin Templeton, Barings, Prudential and alternative asset manager Hunter Point Capital (HPC), have been involved in the final bidding round in recent weeks.
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1 month ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Brendan Malkin |Rory Gallivan |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) Brookfield’s sale of its 50% stake in PD Ports is close to launching with Peel Ports, which has selected Rothschild as its financial advisor, as a strong contender, sources said.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Brendan Malkin |Jessica Wong |Tanu Pandey
News (Intelligence) Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has hired almost 170 new staff over the past year, underlining its commitment to growth as it prepares to close fundraising for its flagship fund at a record for the firm of some EUR 12bn of commitments.
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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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Nov 29, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Brendan Malkin |Jessica Wong |Stefano Berra |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) EQT Infrastructure has begun pre-marketing its long-awaited first energy transition fund with a target of up to USD 4bn, sources said, a move that comes at a time of lower fundraising in the sector overall. The Swedish manager, which registered EQT Transition Infrastructure SCSp vehicle in Luxembourg this February, has begun talking to limited partners and is expected to formally launch fundraising early next year.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Brendan Malkin |Edith Leung
News (Intelligence) Arjun Infrastructure Partners is targeting a first close next quarter of up to EUR 800m for its third blind pool infrastructure fund, which is seeking a total of some EUR 2.5bn of commitments on top of co-investments, sources said.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Brendan Malkin |Rouhan Sharma
Over half a dozen infrastructure investors are said to be considering bids due next month for Partners Group’s Greenlink, an asset with core and core plus characteristics expected to fetch an equity value of up to GBP 500m. KKR Infrastructure, APG, and Swiss Life are said by sources familiar to be likely front-runners at this stage for the asset, which is due to become operational soon at a cost of some GBP 500m to build.
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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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Oct 4, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Tanu Pandey |Brendan Malkin |Rouhan Sharma
The UK’s major carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the industrialised Teesside and Humber regions have arranged debt packages worth a combined GBP 6.7bn and are close to signing the deals within the next few weeks, sources said.
