• A lesser concession…

    Angus Leslie Melville Europe

    Interesting times and stretching the definition of infrastructure, it’s all you hear these days. Heck, it’s all we’ve heard for a good long time and anyone relentlessly beating that drum needs to take a look at just how worn the skin’s starting to look

  • David v Goliath: What’s next for LNG?

    Chase Collum Oil & Gas North America

    Is there room for both large and small, modular LNG growth in the US and Canada?

  • South Africa coal IPPs under fire

    Jordan Bintcliffe Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    Developers of coal-fired IPPs in South Africa are having their feet held against the furnace by environmental groups, slowing their progress. The latest court battle – reminiscent of Thabametsi’s – sees the groups asking for the projects’ environmental authorisations to be set aside

  • Ireland – a broadband broadside

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Europe

    Irish infrastructure instantly evokes joyous memories of a healthy programme of investments from a very different economic environment – long before the wheels fell off and the nation was shamefully cast into the PIGStye. All transport projects ground to a halt towards the end of 2011, the door left ajar for social infrastructure… but nothing progressing

  • Local bank decline in MENA

    Jordan Bintcliffe & Petya Borisova Oil & Gas MENA

    While local lenders become less active in MENA energy and infrastructure transactions, international banks are taking a larger slice of a diminishing pie

  • Energy storage – country cousin no more

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Over the years we’ve seen more niche sectors than you care to recall creep out of left- into centre-field for infrastructure. These are mostly whacky wheezes dreamt up by funds desperate to shift money out the door, often taking a punt on unproven technology. Some of the best examples for this lie in biomass, ethanol and tidal – projects doomed to be dashed against rocky shores of reality

  • HS1 acquisition, UK

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    A pool of fund managers formerly focused on PFI/PPP have become eager to buy, and hard to beat, when it comes to core, regulated infrastructure assets in Europe

  • Luton Airport, UK

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    Luton Airport has always struggled to sell its London credentials, sitting as it does 13 miles north of the capital's orbital motorway. This refi of the concession re-fit and extend the existing facility in conjunction with plans to improve connectivity

  • Mind the gap

    Sophia Radeva Transport Europe

    While the UK government has talked a lot about bridging the north-south divide, the regions still lag far behind London in terms of investment in transport infrastructure

  • Infra debt funds – brown trouser time

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    There’s an old tale that Admiral Nelson was once asked by a flunky why he wore a red tunic into battle. He coolly replied that, were he to be shot, the blood would not show and the morale of his fighting men would not flag. To this, the attendant replied: “And that’s why I wear brown trousers.”

  • China vs Japan outbound

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Asia Pacific

    The two Asian giants are both keen outbound investors. IJGlobal data reveals the Japanese have an edge over their Chinese rivals when it comes to deal volumes, but the gap is narrowing

  • Scotland – land of my fathers… and NPD

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    This week we looked on in admiration as Queensferry Crossing – the £1.35 billion bridge linking Edinburgh to the wastelands of Fife – opened to traffic so the Scottish Government can say it went live in August… only for it to close again once the snarl-up had cleared

  • Interview: Mytrah Energy’s Bob Smith

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    India’s ambitious renewables goals makes the country’s electricity market the “most exciting in the world,” Mytrah Energy executive vice-president Bob Smith tells IJGlobal.

  • Mini-perm treatment for GCC tenors in need of a trim

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    Mini-perm financings are increasingly in vogue across the GCC, driven by ultra-competitive pricing on renewable energy projects and bank liquidity requirements

  • Corruption and infrastructure

    Jon Whiteaker Transport Asia Pacific

    Can we draw any parallels between the perceived corruption levels in a country and its ability to procure infrastructure projects?

  • Silvertown – make-or-break for UK PPP

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    The UK government dubs Silvertown Tunnel a “nationally-significant infrastructure project”… and not without good reason. It’s the only one out there

  • Flying off the shelves

    Jon Whiteaker Transport Latin America

    A large number of international operators are hotly anticipating upcoming privatisations of airports in Brazil. And there are many reasons why investors should be salivating at the prospects

  • Hickory Run power plant – US

    Chase Collum Power North America

    In a first for the US power sector, Asian investors have sidestepped brokers and gone directly to lead arrangers

  • New players on the North American fundraising field

    Viola Caon North America

    The North American fundraising market has been making the headlines over the past 18 months thanks to its mega-funds, but a renewed hope in the region’s future project pipeline has seen a number of ‘new’ market entrants looking to tap investors’ growing infrastructure bucket



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