• Allen & Overy – Global Legal Adviser of the Year

    Angus Leslie Melville Asia Pacific

    Choosing a winner for infrastructure and energy legal advisory on a global scale is a challenging feat, made infinitely more simple by aggregating scores from all four of IJGlobal’s independent judging teams – in London, New York, Dubai and Singapore

  • SMBC – Global Financial Adviser of the Year

    Angus Leslie Melville Asia Pacific

    The 2018 calendar year proved to be a busy one for the SMBC financial advisory team with strong performance around the globe, winning it the IJGlobal Global Financial Adviser of the Year award that was presented at the Singapore event

  • Macquarie Capital – Sponsor of the Year

    Angus Leslie Melville Asia Pacific

    When it comes to sponsors on the international infrastructure scene, few hold a candle to Macquarie Capital as it drives major transactions around the globe – according to IJGlobal’s independent panel of judges

  • It’s that time of year again…

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    League tables have to be one of the most divisive pieces of research that IJGlobal publishes. Why divisive, I hear you ask? Well, they make some people angry when they don’t top the tables

  • UAE procurement – on the brink of change

    Miroslav Hadzhiyski & Lyudmila Zlateva Transport MENA

    The lack of a full PPP programme has held back international private investment for years. To change this Abu Dhabi recently implemented a new PPP law

  • Autopista al Mar 1, Colombia

    Juliana Ennes Transport Latin America

    Colombia's Autopista al Mar 1 project - the largest of the 4G road programme - reached financial close in March 2019, making it the second project to close since president Iván Duque took power in 2018

  • Let the wind blow high, let the debt price low…

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Debt pricing on offshore wind is enough to drive people to drugs these days... though some suggest certain lenders are ahead of the game on that front

  • Acquisition of Glow Energy, Thailand

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Global Power Synergy on 22 March submitted a tender offer for the remaining shares of Glow Energy, one of Thailand's largest independent power producers, having earlier this month completed the share purchase agreement with Engie to acquire its stake in the company

  • Germany: walking on cooling coals

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Sophia Radeva Power Europe

    A German government-appointed commission announced on 26 January that the country should shut down all of its coal-fired power plants by 2030 at the latest. The German government and 16 regional states must now implement the roadmap proposals

  • Mind the MLFs – a warning for Australian renewables

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    With surprisingly material reductions for Marginal Loss Factors emerging in the AEMO draft figures this month, the owners of Australian wind and solar assets may start to consider policy ideas such as renewable energy zones and revising the risk sharing arrangements with offtakers

  • Peruvian broadband: Get connected

    Lyudmila Zlateva, Katerina Ilieva & Juliana Ennes Telecoms Latin America

    Telecoms projects are on the rise across Latin America, including Peru, where ProInversión in January awarded six broadband network PPP projects for a total investment of $358 million

  • DEWA solar IV, United Arab Emirates

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    A concentrated solar power project originally planned to be 200MW grew – in the space of just two-and-a-half years – into what will be the world’s largest solar thermal IPP, thanks to an ambitious sponsor, a very long PPA, and Chinese debt

  • Renewables march towards merchant

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Europe

    Given the slow growth of the corporate PPA market, some argue banks will have to start accepting merchant risk in order to finance the next generation of European renewables

  • Funding US wells, not walls

    Aleksandar Arsov Oil & Gas North America

    The first couple of months of 2019 saw substantial deals for the oil and gas industry in North America

  • Institutional investors – doing it for themselves

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    There’s a growing trend in the infrastructure community for institutional investors to “go it alone”, eschewing the services of fund managers as they deploy big tickets across the global market

  • New South Wales’ Regional Rail PPP, Australia

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Asia Pacific

    The Momentum Trains consortium achieved financial close on 15 February for the Regional Rail PPP in New South Wales, with a group of international banks providing debt with a novel amortisation schedule, while the NSW government has given itself the option to terminate or extend the O&M concession at year 15

  • Sunraysia solar, Australia

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Some five months after financial close, project participants gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony this week at the 255MW Sunraysia solar farm near Balranald in New South Wales, Australia

  • Wales & Borders rolling stock, UK

    Eliza Punshi Transport Europe

    Arriva's 15-year Wales and Borders franchise came to in October last year

  • Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm, Germany

    Elliot Hayes Renewables Europe

    Earlier this month the first in a series of much anticipated German offshore wind acquisitions reached financial close. Sales of equity stakes in three other projects are expected to close this year following the sale of 80% of Veja Mate



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