Stephen Dowd joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan after a career in banking. As head of an C$8.7bn portfolio dedicated to investing directly in infrastructure, he chatted with Chris Glynn about that enviable and distinctly Canadian innovation: managing a public pension like a private business.
8 min read · 15 February 2013
The firm announced in December the hiring of former Blackstone executive Sal Gentile to head its North American efforts and is adding to the US-based team.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The European Union-focused fund manager has acquired 22.5% of the 288-megawatt Butendiek project. Danish pensions Industriens Pension and PKA, plus Germany’s Siemens Financial Services, have also purchased 22.5% stakes.
2 min read · 15 February 2013
Market participants are urging European regulators to reassess CLO rules, which they believe have barred new CLOs being raised since the credit crisis.
2 min read · 08 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
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
The Central and Eastern Europe-focused firm joins a list of other private equity groups that have recently opted for high-yield bonds as a means to refinance soon-to-mature senior debt.
3 min read · 15 February 2013
Southern Europe continues to face huge economic challenges – challenges so great that they may yet bring down the entire Eurozone. But although investing within the region is more difficult than ever before, local managers say there are still good deals to be found
9 min read · 15 February 2013
