The International Finance Corporation is one of a host of LPs in a R$1bn credit vehicle, designed to address lending deficiencies in Brazil’s private sector and managed by Arminio Fraga's Gávea Investimentos.
1 min read · 07 February 2013
The volume of non-bank lending into Europe has been described as “extraordinary” in a recent report gauging attitudes towards the European distressed debt space, which suffered a difficult year as the expected wave of restructurings failed to materialise.
3 min read · 07 February 2013
Mark DeNatale and Scott Bynum have been reunited with former colleague Steve Hickey at CVC Credit Partners, the debt arm of buyout group CVC, after leaving Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Troubled infrastructure projects can make use of traditional restructuring tools but also have their own unique requirements. Madlyn Gleich Primoff and Neal Hampton explain why
6 min read · 15 February 2013
The UK Coalition government has made no shortage of announcements on infrastructure, but how good are the ideas and how much progress have they made? Opposition Labour MP John Healey gives his verdict
8 min read · 15 February 2013
The insurance company is providing a 30-year, fixed rate tranche as part of a €100m loan put together by Natixis for a French prisons PPP. The deal is the first from a €2bn debt partnership between the French bank and Ageas, signed last October.
2 min read · 14 February 2013
The UK high-speed rail line has completed a £1.6bn refinancing which includes a heavily oversubscribed UK bond issue.
2 min read · 07 February 2013
Ashurst’s Gonzalo Jimenez Blanco and José María Anarte offer the legal lowdown on the troubles affecting Spain’s roads sector.
6 min read · 15 February 2013
In its second such deal, the UK pension fund is providing £95m of 20-year class B inflation-linked financing to Affinity Water, owned by Infracapital and Morgan Stanley.
2 min read · 07 February 2013
Microsoft has provided one of the biggest ever mezzanine loans to fund US buyout group Silver Lake’s record-breaking $24bn buyout of Dell.
3 min read · 05 February 2013
