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Angels or angles

01 September 2002

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UK water group AWG (formerly Anglian Water Group) has attracted more than its fair share of attention from the finance community over the last year. The reason for this is not hard to fathom: in November last year the firm announced a radical restructuring of its operations which has involved splitting the group into two discrete operations. These are a ring-fenced, debt financed company which will concentrate on the regulated water business known as Anglian Water Services (AWS) and AWG, which will focus on infrastructure and management activities (see Project Finance May 2002, page 19). This move put into action what a lot of UK water utilities had been talking about for a long time ? a restructuring designed to improve profitability in a heavily regulated industry in which most operating efficiencies have already been achieved.

Details of the proposed return of capital and issue and redemption of redeemable shares associated...


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