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Deals Analysis

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: E18 Koskenkylä–Kotka 03 February 2012

    Finland’s E18 Koskenkylä–Kotka drew on the experience of earlier PPP roads in the country to become the largest and fastest financing in the sector to date.

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: Kribi Power 03 February 2012

    AES Sonel’s Kribi financing is one of the largest independent power projects to close in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent years.

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: NET2 03 February 2012

    Tramlink Nottingham won the NET2 concession on pricing. But the cost of debt might have been cheaper.

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: Qurrayah IPP 17 January 2012

    ACWA Power’s ability to win an independent power project in Saudi Arabia – its own back yard – is undisputed, but in winning its latest 3,927MW project, the largest IPP in the world, the ACWA Power-led consortium beat its rivals by a considerable distance.

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: MbAC Itafos 03 January 2012

    MbAC’s financing for an integrated mine and production facility drew on elements of both agricultural and mining financing practices.

  • DEAL ANALYSIS: Embraport 19 December 2011

    Embraport is the second-largest – and most complex – port financing to close in Latin America this year. It uses an increasingly popular A/B loan structure.

  • Nong Saeng: Folding back the years 16 December 2011

    The recently closed $1.184 billion dual-currency project financing of Electric Power Development Company's (J-Power) 1600MW Nong Saeng CCGT project in Thailand has set a new tenor benchmark for the region - 23 year debt with no sponsor guarantee and for an IPP in a market where the highly competitive bidding process has put downward pressure on PPA tariffs.

  • Barzan Gas: Liquidity in an illiquid market 13 December 2011

    Despite perceived illiquidity in the international bank market, Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil, along with financial advisor Royal Bank of Scotland, have reached financial close on the $10.3 billion Barzan gas project – Qatar’s biggest project financing to date.

  • ICA's Sarre and Papagos prisons: Social project bond first 30 November 2011

    ICA closed the Ps9.7 billion ($709 million) financing for the Sarre and Papagos prison PPPs in Mexico on 28 September. The deal breaks down into a Ps7.1 billion non-recourse certificados bursatiles bond issue and Ps2.6 billion in equity. It is the first entirely commercially financed greenfi...

  • Houlong wind: Currency affairs 28 November 2011

    German renewables developers InfraVest and wpd closed the debt financing for their Eu91.4 million ($128.1 million) Houlong wind farm in Taiwan on 25 October. The 57.9MW project is the fifth that the pair have developed in the country and cements their position as the only independent renewab...

  • Eco-tax: Italian surprise 21 November 2011

    One of the first significant PPP deals to be awarded to a non-French sponsor, the Autostrade-led Ecomouv consortium closed a Eu704.5 million ($951.4 million) financing for the 13.5-year Eco-tax concession on 20 October.

  • Terna PV portfolios: Terra Firma touchdown 10 November 2011

    On 20 October 2011, the Italian grid-operator Terna rounded out the completion of two project financings for a total amount of Eu741.3 million ($1.007 billion) for two PV portfolios that were sold at closing to private equity fund Terra Firma.

  • A9: Availability and the A models 10 November 2011

    The A9 is only the second of the latest slate of A-models to reach close, and the first to be backed by availability payments for the life of the concession. The European Investment Bank provided half of the debt for the A9’s predecessor, the A8 II, but commercial banks provided all of ...

  • F2i and AXA's refinancing guzzles gas assets 01 November 2011

    F2i and AXA reached financial close on 3 October on the Eu2.66 billion ($3.5 billion) refinancing of their three Italian gas network businesses – the G6, Enel Rete and E.ON Rete networks. The deal has gearing of 70% and involves just under Eu2.2 billion of debt. The F2i Reti Italia con...

  • Burgess BioPower: Cate and Starwood revive Berlin biomass 31 October 2011

    Cate Street Capital and Starwood Energy closed a $275 million financing for the 75MW Burgess BioPower in New Hampshire on 2 September. However, the complicated private placement financing for the plant, which was formerly known as Berlin Station Biomass, was marred by allegations from the de...

  • ENA Sur Trust: 144A for Corredor Sur's new public owner 26 October 2011

    Government of Panama-owned Empresa Nacional de Autopista (ENA) closed a $395 million bond issue to partially finance the buy-out of ICA’s 19.8km Corredor Sur toll road concession on 23 August. With its first deal done, the buyer can now turn its attention to the still pending buy-out of...

  • Wiggins Island Coal: EFIC domestic 13 October 2011

    It took 33 lenders, five tranches and the first-ever domestic guarantee from the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) but the Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET) has proven that large-scale project financings can still be inked in Australia; with a little effort.

  • Jadraas Wind: Danish debut 30 September 2011

    Arise Windpower and Platina Partners have closed the acquisition of, and construction financing for, the 203MW SKr3.1 billion ($450 million or Eu338 million) Jadraas wind project in Sweden. The project is one of the largest single-phase onshore wind financings in the Nordic region, and certa...

  • Monteboli: Toto brings PPP to PV 30 September 2011

    Toto Group closed Italy’s first project financing of a photovoltaic plant structured as a public-private partnership on 4 August

  • KivuWatt: One-off innovation 06 September 2011

    ContourGlobal has closed the $91.5 million debt financing for the $142 million KivuWatt lakebed methane-to-power project in Rwanda

  • EME Walnut Creek: Common interest 06 September 2011

    Edison Mission Energy closed $617 million in debt financing for its 479MW Walnut Creek simple cycle natural gas-fired peaker plant in California on 27 July.

  • Is Oakville hospital a bottom for Canadian PPP spreads? 17 August 2011

    Fengate Capital, Carillion and EllisDon-led Hospital Infrastructure Partners closed the C$1.127 billion ($1.13 billion) Oakville Hospital concession in Ontario on 29 July. The deal is the province’s largest healthcare concession to date and marked, a new low in pricing for Canadian social infra...

  • Balard MoD: Dailly du jour 24 July 2011

    The Balard Ministry of Defence headquarters PPP is the largest availability-backed deal to close in the French market so far this year.

  • CHUM Hospital: B leader 24 July 2011

    The first private infrastructure deal rated below A to hit the Canadian market - Collectif CHUM closed a C$1.371 billion ($1.39 billion) senior secured bond issue for the 38.8-year Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) concession on 9 June

  • A8 II: Cast a real shadow 15 July 2011

    The A8 II was the first of the second round of German A-Models to close, and the first German motorway deal initiated after the financial crisis.

  • RusVinyl: SIBUR and Solvay's market risk first 30 June 2011

    Russian petrochemical company SIBUR, in a 50/50 joint venture with SolVin, part of the Belgian Solvay group, signed a Eu750 million ($1.07 billion) project financing for the RusVinyl project

  • Hudson Transmission: Resurrected 23 June 2011

    Hudson Transmission Partners closed a $700 million private placement for its 660MW submarine transmission cable under the Hudson River on 23 May.

  • Sorek Desalination: IDE’s hat trick 23 June 2011

    IDE Technologies and Hutchison Water International signed the $400 million debt financing for the Sorek reverse osmosis water desalination project on 23 May 2011. Sorek is the fourth and largest desalination project to close financing in Israel, and IDE’s third in its home market.

  • Shuweihat 3: Back below 200bp 14 June 2011

    Shuweihat Asia Power Company (SAPCO) – a special purpose company established by the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA, 60%), Kepco and Sumitomo (40% split 49/51 respectively) – reached financial close on 19 May on the Shuweihat 3 independent power project in the United Arab Emirates.

  • Yuzhno: Upstream unleashed 14 June 2011

    The Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and gas condensate field development financing reach­ed full financial close on 25 May, with first disbursement taking place on 27 May.

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