Andy Thomson is a Senior Editor at PEI with responsibility for Private Debt Investor, the leading title focused on the world's private debt markets. Andy works closely with team members in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has been with PEI for many years, having worked previously on Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.
Global Infrastructure Partners and Montagu Private Equity have agreed to acquire Greenstar, a UK waste management firm, for £135m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Mid Europa Partners has made its first investment in renewable energy since the firm decided to make it a core target sector nine months ago.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The emerging markets specialist has launched a new energy supply and services business in tandem with Singapore-listed corporate KS Energy, which is chaired by Indonesian entrepreneur Kris Wiluan.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Sir Adrian Montague has been appointed as the new chairman of listed UK investment group 3i, replacing Baroness Hogg as she takes the helm of the UK's Financial Reporting Council.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
In the March 2010 issue of Infrastructure Investor magazine, Alinda Capital Partners’ managing partner Christopher Beale claims that the bubble years were effectively a 'laboratory experiment' for infrastructure investment. When GPs misplaced the fundamentals of sound investing, the experiment went wrong.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Alinda Capital Partners, the New York-based infrastructure fund manager which closed a new fund on $4bn earlier this year, has made a major move into the US gas storage market through the $505m NorTex Gas Storage Company deal.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Macquarie Funds Group has hired former Partners Group executive Mike Siebert, who joined the firm’s Sydney office when it was launched in April 2008.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A strong level of lending to infrastructure projects in India is bucking the trend of a weaker credit climate overall, according to new figures from the Reserve Bank of India.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Citadel Capital, the Cairo-based private equity firm, recently announced plans to invest up to $400m over the next two years in a range of sectors in East Africa, including infrastructure. InfrastructureInvestor caught up with the firm’s founder and chairman Ahmed Heikal to get the low-down on where the money will go and why – below is an excerpt of the interview.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Citadel Capital founder Ahmed Heikal told PEO's sister publication Infrastructure Investor why he wants to invest up to $400m in East Africa.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
