A consortium led by the firm has revised its earlier proposal to buy Energy Developments at an amended price of A$430m. Should the deal complete it would be Archer's first in the renewable energy sector.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The founder and chairman of the Dublin-based firm Quinlan Private is stepping down this month. He has been gradually withdrawing his day-to-day involvement with the firm for at least a year and has been investing his personal wealth in property deals.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The US government has selected nine private investment firms, including Oaktree, Invesco and Angelo Gordon, to help take real estate loan-backed securities off banks’ balance sheets.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The business development company, which has seen its share price slide 37% from its 52-week high, will use the proceeds of the capital raise for investments and to maintain liquidity.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
DesertXpress, a privately financed initiative to link Nevada and California via a high speed rail line, has gained new momentum after the two states agreed to extend California’s high speed rail corridor to Las Vegas. The extension is expected to cost between $3.5bn and $4bn.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The roofing business – now owned by Apollo, TowerBrook and York Capital – has rid itself of more than €1bn in debt.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The legislative landscape for public-private partnerships in America is changing fast. Cezary Podkul reports.
6 min read · 08 February 2013
Morgan Stanley’s $1.15bn lease of Chicago’s on-street parking meters has provoked anger, vandalism and legislation. Cezary Podkul takes a look at what went wrong and what it means for the market.
8 min read · 08 February 2013
Tom Osborne and Henry Catry review the outlook for infrastructure financing amid the financial crisis.
7 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
