• Acquisition of Equans Urban Energy, UK

    A consortium of Swiss Life Asset Managers and Schroders Greencoat took over Equans Urban Energy in the UK in December for an enterprise value of £260 million, becoming the owner of the country's largest portfolio of heating and cooling concessions

  • Quinbrook Renewables Impact Fund, UK

    Quinbrook’s Renewables Impact Fund is aiming to address the need for investment in renewable energy infrastructure in the UK, to facilitate the scale-up and deployment of the generation capacity required to reach net zero targets

  • Acquisition of Statera, UK

    EQT’s acquisition of Statera Energy was exactly the type of deal the fund manager had been pursuing for years, Benjamin Bygott-Webb, managing director at EQT, tells IJGlobal

  • London CIV’s new CIO

    The pension pool for London’s Local Government Pension Schemes, London Collective Investment Vehicle, is beginning the year under the leadership of a new CIO

  • Energy transition – time to get the finger out

    Conversations with the industry this week leave this infra hack considerably more concerned at the end than the start… worrying about hitting Net Zero targets, the pace of delivery of renewables projects and – pretty much – energy transition in general. But most of all, the need to get the finger out

  • Arcus' launch of Portus Data Centers, Germany

    Arcus Infrastructure Partners last year joined the data centre investment drive with 3 acquisitions in Germany and Luxembourg, and the launch of Portus Data Centres to manage them

  • Asterion’s Steag acquisition, Germany

    Not only was Asterion's acquisition of Steag one of the biggest to close in Germany in 2023, it also held its own among the most notable M&As across the power sector in the last calendar year

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Europe, FY 2023

    Infrastructure finance across Europe dipped by 6.2% over the course of the 2023 calendar year, marking a slight drop against performance achieved in full-year 2022, according to the IJGlobal database

  • Bluefield Revive, Italy

    Bluefield's Revive strategy looks away from the allure of new-build renewables megaprojects and instead addresses a question crucial to the energy transition – how to revitalise aging and fragmented assets and generate long-term sustainable impact

  • Broken (investor) relations…

    Reaching out to the market this week, you’re left with a curious sense that it’s divided into 2 schools of thought when it comes to fund managers drumming up cash. Today’s editorial is prompted by an evening out with a handful of infra types in mid-December when one immediately recognisable IR person expressed relief that LPs were starting to loosen the purse strings

  • DWS's Stagecoach acquisition, UK

    Embracing what has been deemed “the golden age of electric busses”, DWS acquired Stagecoach in 2022, usurping a bid from National Express

  • GIP – oh to be in the Nifty Fifty…

    Word reaches IJGlobal that of the 400-strong GIP team in the reverse takeover of BlackRock, a group of 50 big hitters has emerged as the real winner, earning themselves a nickname – the “Nifty Fifty”

  • Flogging a dead horse

    Once you’ve started flogging a dead horse, when do you stop? There’s no obvious time to hang up the whip. And that’s very much the case with the consolidation of infra funds… as well as the desire to write about it

  • SotySolar controlling stake acquisition, Spain

    Luxembourg infrastructure investor Marguerite closed on 12 December 2023 the acquisition of a controlling stake in SotySolar, a Spanish company in the distributed renewable energy market in the Iberian Peninsula, by buying part of Plenium Partners' shares and subscribing to a new capital increase

  • Infra Dig – Henri Yoki on AI in infrastructure

    This latest episode of Infra Dig, sees the IJGlobal podcast service return to roots… delving into sectors that are being discussed, but where there is an apparent lack of understanding – artificial intelligence

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Europe, Q3 2023

    The third quarter of 2023 showed strong performance for Europe across the broader “infrastructure finance” category when held against the corresponding period in 2022, providing marginal cheer in an otherwise fairly depressed market

  • A fool and their money are soon parted

    The English language is rich in proverbs and this one (the headline) happens to be one of the many imparted to me by my grandmother – a rather splendid woman who had a strong influence on me from the earliest age

  • London Array stake acquisition, UK

    Greencoat UK Wind, together with other Schroders Greencoat-managed funds, sealed in August the acquisition of a 25% stake in the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm from Ørsted for £717 million

  • Fundraising… swimming naked in the rip tide

    Roaming around the market this week – as is one’s wont – it’s comforting (if not a tad worrisome) to hear rumblings from within the infra fund community that confirm what's been said for a while… with bells on