Bruno Alves is the Senior Editor of award-winning publication Infrastructure Investor. Bruno has been a journalist for nearly 20 years and first joined Infrastructure Investor in December 2009, where he quickly rose to become Associate Editor and a leading writer covering the infrastructure asset class. He’s been Senior Editor since 2015 and is also responsible for Agri Investor, PEI Group’s agriculture-focused publication.
AXA Private Equity's spin-out talks are progressing, with a structure emerging that will give its employees a significant stake in the business. The new clarity has given the fundraising of its latest infrastructure vehicle fresh impetus.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chinese fund is the second sovereign wealth fund to recently take a stake in London's Heathrow Airport.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
The firm has reached a first close on more than €200m after three years on the fundraising trail.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The investment arm of the World Bank and the UK government are investing a combined $153m to kick-start the IFC Climate Catalyst Fund, described as a private equity fund of funds targeting clean energy projects across the world.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The New York-based global infrastructure fund manager, led by Adebayo Ogunlesi (pictured) has disclosed in SEC filings it has raised just over half of its intended $6bn final target.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The specialist energy-focused firm has teamed up with Spain’s Renovalia Energy to target wind projects across Europe and North America.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The US group joins Criteria CaixaHolding, Torreal and ProA Capital as a shareholder in Saba Infraestructuras, the car parking and logistics business that spun out of Abertis earlier this year for €400m.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Funds managed by the private equity investor have acquired 11 wind farms from ACS as part of the latter’s ongoing sale of its renewables portfolio.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm has secured the backing of nine banks to help fund the €1.2bn project – ‘the first German wind farm to be fully financed by private investors’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A €110m add-on acquisition from utility E.ON gives EQT ownership of Sweden’s entire high-pressure natural gas transmission grid, running over 620km.
2 min read · 05 January 2013