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
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
PwC’s Richard Abadie thinks PF2’s greater emphasis on equity will make projects more expensive, while DLA Piper’s Liam Cowell argues there ‘is nothing ground breaking’ in Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement.
5 min read · 15 January 2013
Profit sharing, public sector equity stakes, less leverage, greater transparency, flexible soft facilities management contracts and faster procurement times are the headline features of PFI Mark II, the aptly named PF2 procurement framework.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Turkish airports operator TAV has secured €250m in debt from the EBRD, Unicredit, Siemens Bank, Denizbank and the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank. Expect the long-running $1.2bn Eurasia Tunnel Project to also reach financial close this week.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
After an eventful couple of years at Grosvenor Fund Management, Asia head Morgan Laughlin is taking charge of a bigger player. PERE Magazine, December 2012/January 2013 issue.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
With the private equity real estate space continuing to see more new players, PERE highlights those firms with the right combination of strategy and personnel to succeed in the long run. December 2012/January 2013 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Keith Breslauer, founder of Patron Capital, the London-based firm that has closed on the largest European opportunity fund this year, talks to Robin Marriott about life, family and business…and how he just can’t keep still. December 2012/January 2013 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
