Africa has an enormous need for infrastructure projects. But investors say deals still take too long to get off the ground, and too long to complete – and it’s not the credit crunch they blame. Philip Borel reports.
6 min read · 08 February 2013
These 15 firms have the skills and strategies to dominate the real estate wasteland, say market insiders. PERE Magazine September 2009.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
PERE Magazine September 2009: Although it sits on a massive pile of dry powder, the world’s largest private equity real estate firm has directed its professionals to first spend their time deeply researching macro trends around the world, as well as briefing LPs about their findings. Jonathan Brasse recently interviewed the London-based team that spearheaded this back-to-school effort to learn how they believe the world has changed.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Mega-firms with dry powder are breaking the LBO mould to get deals done, writes Toby Mitchenall.
4 min read · 08 February 2013
With credit markets still tight, knowing the right bankers can be key to financing your infrastructure deal. It is of course difficult to agree on which lenders are the most influential. But when the Infrastructure Investor team swapped notes, and quizzed practitioners in the marketplace, the names of the ten financiers on this page kept coming up.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
With $5.64bn in commitments, Global Infrastructure Partners is the largest independent first-time infrastructure fund ever organised. Three years after the firm’s launch, the bulk of the fund is yet to be invested, and with markets still in disarray, new investments are difficult to close. But Adebayo Ogunlesi, the man in charge, isn’t in a hurry. Chris Josselyn and Philip Borel find out why.
9 min read · 08 February 2013
Citadel Capital-backed gas distributor TAQA Arabia won a $165m contract in Libya to build a gas distribution network linking the country’s three major cities. In Algeria, Japan’s JGC and a joint venture between Swiss engineering firm ABB and Algerian oil and gas construction firm Sarpi won contracts totalling $1.6bn for gas gathering, metering and pipeline facilities.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Bernard Sheahan is the man behind the IFC’s new Infrastructure Crisis Facility: a $10bn pot of money that could lend to your project or invest in your next infrastructure fund. Cezary Podkul asked him about his vision for the facility, how investors can get access to it, and why it is of such critical importance at the current time
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Having bolstered its team in Nairobi, sociallyminded private equity firm InReturn is finding a significant need for investment in East Africa
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Far from feeling the impact of the slowdown, one firm is charging ahead with growth plans
5 min read · 08 February 2013
