Bruno Alves
Bruno Alves is the Senior Editor of award-winning publication Infrastructure Investor. Bruno has been a journalist for nearly 20 years and first joined Infrastructure Investor in December 2009, where he quickly rose to become Associate Editor and a leading writer covering the infrastructure asset class. He’s been Senior Editor since 2015 and is also responsible for Agri Investor, PEI Group’s agriculture-focused publication.
To meet its goal of deploying $2bn to $3bn in Indian infrastructure, 3i will likely launch a second fund as its current fund is near 70% invested.
The French concessionaire has reached financial close for the €230m Dakar-Diamniadio toll road, in Senegal, backed by €62.5 million in debt from the African Development Bank, the IFC, Senegalese bank CBAO and the West African Development Bank.
The Spanish infrastructure group says it wants to sell a 10% stake in the UK airports operator to help pay down debt. However, Ferrovial stresses that it will continue to be a long-term investor in BAA.
The Canadian pension has paid €640m to acquire a 10% stake in Toronto’s 407 ETR toll road from Ferrovial. CPPIB is now the toll road’s second-largest shareholder (40%) with Ferrovial retaining its place at the top of the shareholding tree (43.23%).
Exxon Mobil and Shell are selling two sets of gas storage assets in Germany with different profiles but the lack of long-term concession contracts for one set of assets is causing infrastructure investors to walk away from the deal or consider realignment with industrial partners.
AXA Private Equity, Goldman Sachs and Macquarie are said to have submitted binding bids for the sale of Endesa’s 4,100-kilometre Spanish gas distribution network earlier this week. The deal could be worth over €700m.
Venice European Investments, targeting infrastructure and private equity, is starting with €400m and aiming to reach a final close of €600m.
Antin Infrastructure, AXA Private Equity, Allianz, Goldman Sachs, Infracapital Partners, Macquarie and RREEF are among the funds thought to be involved in the bidding processes for four gas assets across Germany, Spain and Portugal.
Following its acquisition of a stake in Gatwick airport, South Korea’s National Pension Service is now looking to acquire Chevron’s 23.44% stake in US pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline in a deal estimated at $845m.
The stake sale puts an end to one of the summer’s hottest private equity infrastructure deals, originally conceived as a €25bn LBO.