Analysis Archive
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Ionia Odos toll road, Greece
Transport EuropeThe €1.157 billion Ionia Odos PPP project - the pathfinder deal in a programme of five toll road transactions tendered by the Greek government - has reached commercial close
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AndaSol: the return of parabolic thermal solar
Renewables EuropeIn 1913 an American entrepreneur named Frank Shuman brought online the world’s first parabolic trough thermal solar facility – a 55 horsepower project built for the British at Meadi in Egypt
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Netherlands Minstry of Finance Redevelopment PPP
Social & Defence EuropeThe government of the Netherlands reached financial close with the Safire consortium on the Netherlands first of its kind, and largest ever €175 million (US$230m) PPP scheme to renovate and operate...
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SOCAR Shah Deniz Oil Field Blueprint Refinancing II
Oil & Gas EuropeOn 29 December 2006 a Cayman Islands company called Blueprint Trading closed a US$440 million refinancing with ABN AMRO and Société Générale replacing and extending a previous deal agreed in September...
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T-Rex Colorado Multi-Modal transport project
Transport North AmericaIn November 2006 one of the most innovative transportation projects in the Americas was completed at Denver, Colorado. A US$1.75bn combined public light-rail and highway construction project...
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Ostregion Vienna A5 Motorway
Transport EuropeA brand new financing model, a team of international players and a tense bidding process make up for a groundbreaking deal in Europe - the €978 million Ostregion PPP Package 1 road project, Austria's...
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EastLink Melbourne tollway refinancing
Transport Asia PacificThe past year has seen dynamic activity in the Australian transport market with a number of deals encouraging in both their scale and geographical spread
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Marchwood UK new build IPP financing
Power EuropeConfidence is back in the UK power market with fierce competition among lenders leading to tight pricing on the first project financed IPP since the American companies pulled out of the country at the...
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Burg PPP Prison - Germany
Social & Defence EuropeGermany's first PPP prison at Burg in eastern Germay was closed by the Projektgesellschaft Justizvollzug Burg consortium and the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt on 19 December 2005
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Germany's Herkules military IT PPP
Social & Defence EuropeGermany has traditionally been wary of involving the private sector in large concessions of public sector assets but a €7 billion military IT concession could signal a changing attitude.
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Bradford Building Schools for the Future
Social & Defence EuropeBradford council has reached financial close with the IntegratED consortium, Depfa and HSBC bank on its £400m (US$779m) BSF programme Local Education Partnership (LEP) agreement and phase one schools-...
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Zambia's Lumwana copper mine
Oil & GasWhen the 'Winds of Change' and political independence swept the continent in the 1960s, and retreating empires granted states independence often on the basis of a single commodity, copper mining...
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Canaport LNG - the eastern seaboard's first new terminal in 30 years
Oil & Gas North AmericaBy leveraging on the appetite of European banks for lower priced debt than can normally be stomached by US and Canadian banks, Canaport LNG's US$763 million project financing secured sponsors Repsol...
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El Dorado: Peru's Cerro Corona Gold Mine
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaThe financial close of South African miner Gold Fields Limited's (GFL) US$340 million Cerro Corona gold and copper mining project sets down the latest milestone in the project financed metals mining...
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Reliance Rail US$2.8 billion rolling stock PPP
Transport Asia PacificAfter a two-year bidding process Australian developers and financiers have closed the country's largest PPP deal so far - the Reliance Rail PPP
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Spain's La Magascona solar PV
Renewables EuropeThe sun-kissed Spanish hills around Trujillo, Extremadura are rich with history - from the fictional homeland of Russell Crowe's gladiator to real birthplace of conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the...