• Umm al Quwain IWP, UAE

    James Hebert Water MENA

    Only a few remaining conditions precedent stand in the way of ACWA Power reaching financial close on a second desalination facility in the United Arab Emirates in just one month – the latest being the $800 million Umm al Quwain IWP

  • Fund analysis: AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund IV

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    As the interest for mezzanine strategies spreads among equity managers, AMP Capital has reinforced its reputation in this space by raising a total $6.2 billion on its latest vintage

  • A tale of two sectors

    Miroslav Hadzhiyski Mining Sub-Saharan Africa

    Renewable energy projects and mining developers have both seen significant investment in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent years

  • A game of infra bingo

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats for this afternoon’s infrastructure entertainment. We’ve a game for you to play – a real crowd-pleaser – one that’ll have you on the edge of your seats and excite your competitive spirits

  • Formosa 2 offshore wind, Taiwan

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Formosa 2’s $2 billion debt package closed late in October 2019 with the equity contributions to be finalised later in November. The project financing marks K-Sure and Taiwan Life's entries into the market, but Taiwan's state-owned banks have cold feet when it comes to offshore wind

  • Taxiing before take-off

    Jon Whiteaker Transport North America

    Airport privatisations in the US have largely remained grounded, with numerous cancellations, but two deals are now at least moving towards the runway

  • Taweelah IWP, United Arab Emirates

    James Hebert Water MENA

    Abu Dhabi is going to be home to not only the world's largest independent water producer (IWP) but also the world’s cheapest tariff for desalinated water thanks to the $1.2 billion Taweelah IWP

  • US infra spending – a missed opportunity

    Sophia Radeva Transport North America

    The cancellation of the Mobile River Bridge P3 shows the limitations of federal efforts to increase infrastructure spending

  • Infra funds – the value chain gang…

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Ever since the start of the global financial crisis, the infrastructure community – the entire industry from infra funds through to lenders and advisers – has lived by the mantra “evolve or die”… a mind-set that stands true to this day

  • Three’s a crowd: the trouble with ME tenders

    Jon Whiteaker Power MENA

    A messy cancellation of a tender in Kuwait this week demonstrates why making advisers bid collectively for mandates has significant downsides

  • DFIs push ahead in Argentina

    Lyudmila Zlateva Oil & Gas Latin America

    While the wider economy faces significant uncertainty, DFIs have continued to support energy and infrastructure projects in Argentina

  • Hallowe’en – an infra tribute to Poe

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Once upon a Friday dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary… the challenge of writing an editorial, mulling quaint and curious volumes of infra lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently hacking, writing stories on the news floor. “’Tis some reporter,” I muttered, “tapping at his keyboard – only this and nothing more.”

  • EXCLUSIVE North Marmara motorway refinancing, Turkey

    Eliza Punshi Transport Europe

    Financial close was achieved mid-September on North Marmara motorway PPP, concluding a restructure process that ensures delivery of an essential piece of Turkey's infrastructure that is deemed critical to the nation's continued economic growth

  • Acquisition of Elenia Lämpö Oy, Finland

    Sophie Mellor Power Europe

    The sale of a business in any sector at 21x EBITDA will always cause a stir among market pundits, but this was not the case when Finnish district heating firm Elenia Lämpö Oy changed hands at such an aggressive multiple

  • BNDES - dominant no more?

    Juliana Ennes Latin America

    The day capital markets are the main source of infrastructure finance in Brazil, replacing institutions that can offer subsidized interest rates or artificially-long tenors, might come sooner than some expect

  • Another year older, another year…

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    There are certain things by which you can chart your life and it’s a little bit sad when it dawns on you that IJGlobal’s quarterly league tables have become a landmark for tracking the flow of years

  • New Zealand's substantial infra pipeline

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Valentin Mihaylov Transport Asia Pacific

    The Government of New Zealand has an ambitious pipeline of 174 infrastructure projects it intends to develop over the next five years, requiring a total investment of roughly NZ$6.1 billion. Taking the reins is the new Infrastructure Commission,Te Waihanga, due to be up and running as of this month

  • Steering solar equipment into safe harbors

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Solar equipment safe harbor deals that have been in the works since the first half of the year have begun to reach financial close in the last few weeks, starting with a dual-tranche transaction for Recurrent Energy

  • Infra M&A – virus that proves the vaccine?

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    Are people paying too much for infra and energy assets? Has the market finally reached the stage where stupendously stupid things are being done? With a market correction on the way, are the wheels about to fall off in the most spectacular manner?



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