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October 2008
The £2 billion ($3.24 billion) sale by Abbey/Santander of UK rolling stock lessor Porterbrook to Antin Infrastructure Partners - a consortium of Deutsche Bank, Lloyds TSB and BNP Paribas - is being financed via
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Dexia and Helaba have dropped out of the prospective bank club lined up for the debt facility backing Transport for Scotland's £200 million ($365.5 million) 30-year M80
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The state of São Paulo awarded five toll road concessions to five different bidders in an auction on 29 October 2008.
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Financial close on the Eu800 million ($1.12 billion) Liefkenshoek rail tunnel PPP in Belgium is set for
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The state of São Paulo is holding the auction for five toll road concessions on 29 October 2008.
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is to provide $800 million in debt financing for the expansion of the Panama Canal.
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The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has issued $425 million in bonds to complete the long-term financing for the SH-121
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Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has selected an ACS-led consortium for its I-595 availability-based road concession.
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Four bids were submitted for the first tranche - Poceirao–Caia - of the RAVE high speed rail PPP concession between Lisbon and Madrid at the beginning of October
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The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has received one bid for its midtown and downtown tunnels
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A consortium of Transporte Metropolitano Masivo de Barcelona (TMB) and Sener engineering has been selected to run a development study for the Bogota metro in Columbia.
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Portuguese procuring authority, Estradas de Portugal SA (EP), is expected to announce the preferred bidder for the Eu600 million Transmontana motorway
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The Regional Transportation District of Denver in Colorado has received three bids for its FasTracks light rail and mass transit concession.
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Mexican shipping operator Blue Marine has closed a $121 million lease financing for two cargo vessels
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The North Texas Tollway Authority is to borrow a further $100 million for its SH121 toll road project
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a loan of up to $400 million to the Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (ACP) for the expansion of the Panama Canal.
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The City of Winnipeg's public works department has extended the deadline for responses to a request for qualifications for its Disraeli bridge PPP project
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Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd (MMOPL) - a joint venture between Reliance Infrastructure (59%), Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA - 26%) and Veolia Transport (5%) - has reached financial close on a Rs1,194 crore ($245.27 million) facility for the first line of the Mumbai Metro — th...
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GlobalVia has signed the financing for the acquisition of the SCADA and SCADI toll roads in Chile.
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Syndication of the 13.5-year Eu336 million debt package backing development of a new international and domestic terminal at Istanbul's second airport Sabiha Gocken is moving - like many other deals in the market - slowly.
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A consortium led by CCR has reached financial close on the São Paulo Metro Line 4 concession in Brazil,
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Australia has announced a A$76 billion federal government investment into infrastructure projects for the coming year on top of current spend by state governments via their various PPP programs
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Flex LNG hopes to come to market in 2009 with a debt financing for its Peak LNG gas liquefaction project.
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Lead arrangers BBVA and RBC closed the C1.2 billion ($1.1 billion) debt financing for Nouvelle Aoutoroute 30 SENC's PPP road deal in British Columbia on Friday 26 September.
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Lead arranger Santander has launched syndication of the Ps2.25 billion ($205 million) bank loan for ICA's Rio Verde/Ciudad Valles toll road
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The City of Chicago has accepted a $2.521 billion bid for a 99-year lease of Midway airport from Midway Investment and Development Company
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The preferred bid from a consortium of Abertis and Citi Infrastructure Investors of $12.8 billion for a 75-year lease of the Pennsylvania turnpike expired on 30 September 2008
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A club of 13 banks closed the C$1.2 billion ($1.1 billion) debt financing for the A30 PPP road deal in Quebec on Friday 26 September 2008. The financing bypassed a terrible syndication market by assembling a club upfront, using a generous pricing flex, and invoking strong relationship pulls. The dea...
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Embattled BAA completed its long-delayed debt refinancing just before the global financial crash prompting BAA CEO Colin Matthews to proclaim: "This is the largest financing of its kind ever completed, and the fact that a landmark transaction of this size and complexity has been completed in challen...
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Transurban dodged the credit crunch more deftly than most of its peers. Will its new, so far indistinct, strategy keep it safe? Catherine McGuirk reports on how the toll-road operator is weathering the financial storm.
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Lead arrangers Société Générale and UBS have reached an out of court settlement with RREEF and Terra Firma
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Pennsylvania turnpike offer expires
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ViaQuatro, the consortium led by CCR Brazil, reached financial close on its São Paulo Metro Line IV concession on 7 October 2008, with financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and a club of seven banks. The deal is the first long-term project financing to close for a PPP concession i...