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
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
The UK is one of the world’s most established private equity markets, long a magnet for talent and capital. But given its stuttering domestic economy, thanks in no small part to the troubles of the neighbouring eurozone, are there still opportunities for private equity to make great returns? We gathered three of the UK industry’s leading lights in London in January to ask them about the outlook for 2013
10 min read · 15 February 2013
Quiet sale-leaseback market ‘re-opens’ as two deals arrive in quick succession. February 2013 issue.
3 min read · 15 February 2013
Regulators gave the private equity and real estate fund industry something to worry about in 2012. More of the same is expected in 2013 and beyond. PERE Magazine, February 2013 issue.
7 min read · 15 February 2013
Vietnam’s macroeconomic woes have so far discouraged private equity investment, but renewed activity suggests firms are reassessing the opportunity. By Clare Burrows
3 min read · 15 February 2013
A rush to invest remaining CLO capital and improved leveraged loan markets will aid buyout activity in the first half of 2012, predicts debt advisory group Marlborough Partners in its latest report.
2 min read · 01 February 2013
