Alexandra Atiya

The US infrastructure firm plans to invest €300m over the next three years in agri.capital, a German biogas company whose previous backers included Frog Capital.

Carlyle, alongside a Hong Kong maritime investment firm, will invest $900m in equity over the next five years in the hopes of capturing demand from Chinese state-owned companies.

The world’s largest asset manager is partnering with NTR, a Dublin-based renewable energy developer, to launch an invesetment group that will target the renewable power sector.

Dresser, which makes products like engines and fueling products, split from Halliburton in a 2001 buyout led by First Reserve. GE will integrate the business into GE Energy.

The portfolio consists of five natural-gas fired plants in the US state of Georgia that together can generate up to 2500 megawatts of power.

Advent’s first infrastructure investment in Brazil is also its largest investment in the country, according to a senior executive.

Mexico released stats showing that $3bn has been raised since July 2008 using ‘certificados de capital de desarrollo’, securities that allow Mexican pensions to invest in private funds.

Gavin Munro, who has been based in London for the past decade, will now move to Societe Generale's Hong Kong office. He will focus on public-private partnerships, particularly in Australia.

The Inter-American Development Bank approved the loan as a way to ‘foster more participation’ in the fund. Macquarie also released details of the fund’s recent purchase of Decarred, a company that maintains 10 stretches of highway in the US-border state of Durango.

The Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund will acquire a company with a 20-year contract to reconstruct and maintain highways in the Mexican state of Durango. The firm has also placed Macquarie executives Martin Stanley and Chris Leslie on its board.