Private Equity
The firm is looking at investment opportunities in ports, toll roads and pipeline assets, with a specific focus on Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners CEO Sam Pollock said during the firm's second quarter earnings call.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
As more private equity firms than ever before flock to Latin America seeking investment opportunities, dangers lurk for investors who fail to perform extensive due diligence, writes Kenneth Springer.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Mexico released stats showing that $3bn has been raised since July 2008 using ‘certificados de capital de desarrollo’, securities that allow Mexican pensions to invest in private funds.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
General Electric will buy Lineage Power, whose business lines include power conversion systems for cloud computing, in a deal valued at $520m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Swiss giant’s global expansion continues. New York-based Karin Hallin will head up a new office in São Paolo, Brazil.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Inter-American Development Bank approved the loan as a way to ‘foster more participation’ in the fund. Macquarie also released details of the fund’s recent purchase of Decarred, a company that maintains 10 stretches of highway in the US-border state of Durango.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The fund is the first entirely debt-focused investment vehicle raised in Mexico using a new type of listed security called a certificado burasatile. The lender, Navix, plans to co-invest $100m of its money with the certificados busatiles on a variety of projects in the Mexican energy sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund will acquire a company with a 20-year contract to reconstruct and maintain highways in the Mexican state of Durango. The firm has also placed Macquarie executives Martin Stanley and Chris Leslie on its board.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Property group AMB, Artha Capital, Mexico Retail Properties and Prudential Financial’s Mexican unit will seek to raise about $1.28bn via the Mexican Stock Exchange. State-backed infrastructure fund Fonadin will invest $253m in the funds, with the rest expected to come primarily from local pension funds.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The fund, which has a $750m target and a $1.1bn hard-cap, could hold a final close in early March.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
