The ‘Connecting Europe Facility’ will be unveiled next week and will focus exclusively on trans-European transport, energy and ICT projects. Between 15% and 20% of the proposed €50bn in spending will be leveraged through financial instruments and public-private partnerships.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Major Anchorage PPP can move forward after the city was reassured that the bridge project will not hinder business at the Port of Anchorage.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm has already completed its first investment with its fifth European mezzanine fund, backing the buyout of business intelligence provider Bureau van Dijk.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
In addition to receiving an additional $55m in investment capital, the cargo airline has renegotiated its credit agreements to extend debt maturities to 2015.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Listed vehicles have been successful in strengthening their balance sheets during the financial crisis and are ready to deploy capital once markets settle, according to research from Deloitte.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The European Union is planning to spend some €1.5trn to interconnect the continent’s transport networks over the next 20 years. With national budgets stretched to the limit, the private sector is a natural port of call. But investors are sceptical.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
The $26.2bn system has committed $750m to a ‘strategic partnership’ with TCW spin-out Crescent Capital Group. South Carolina previously set up a $759m separate account with Apollo Global Management in 2009.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
China-focused Spring Capital was launched just before the 2008 credit crisis hit. Founder and chief executive Vincent Chan tells PE Asia how the first-time fund coped with a difficult fundraising process and how it differentiates itself in China’s growing private equity market
6 min read · 15 January 2013
There is hidden distress in the German real estate market, and private equity real estate firms are gearing up in creative ways in their quest to uncover it. PERE magazine October 2011 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Julian Mash, founder and CEO of Vision Capital, buys private equity-backed companies en gros. It’s a complex technique – and according to Mash, as David Hawkins and Philip Borel learned in September, the private equity industry needs it more than ever
10 min read · 15 January 2013
