Private debt fund manager Metric, launched by former UBS and Towerbrook executive John Sinik last year, has sealed another two deals as demand for alternative sources of debt finance increases.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
A Probitas Partners survey has found increasing support for US and European mid-market funds among limited partner respondents.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Ashurst’s Gonzalo Jimenez Blanco (pictured) and José María Anarte offer a legal perspective on the troubles affecting Spain’s roads sector.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
Three-and-a-half-years later, financial advisor Unicredit steered a club of 10 institutions to provide $960m of debt for an undersea tunnel and road linking Istanbul’s European and Asian sides. The icing on the cake: an 18-year door-to-door tenor, Turkey’s longest project financing.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
ICG’s listed real estate debt investment subsidiary has appointed Jack Perry as chairman of its new UK-focused investment vehicle.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
As the head of a firm that has just raised the largest fund the infrastructure asset class has ever seen, GIP’s Adebayo Ogunlesi has reaped the benefits of delivering on a strategy that countered many prevailing notions when it was first devised. Philip Borel caught up with Ogunlesi to reflect on the firm’s progress to date
10 min read · 15 January 2013
The EIB’s project bond initiative could fail to launch in 2014 if its pilot phase turns out to be unsuccessful, with the bank fearful that sponsors and procurement authorities will fail to take advantage of the scheme. Bruno Alves reports
7 min read · 15 January 2013
London’s High Court told the 22 investors looking to press charges against the Henderson PFI Secondary Fund II that they will have to forfeit their limited liability status if they wish to proceed with legal action.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
OPTrust has appointed William Hatanaka as its new CEO – but the fall-out from the acrimonious departure of his short-lived predecessor rumbles on. By Graham Winfrey
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Metric Capital Partners has put together a high-powered team from the private equity world to try and tap into credit opportunities in the European mid-market. By Oliver Smiddy
3 min read · 15 January 2013
