Brookfield Asset Management, the Toronto-based asset manager, has most to celebrate as it takes the plaudits in four categories in the Infrastructure Investor Awards 2013.
The firm is placed first in the following areas: Global infrastructure personality of the year (chief executive Sam Pollock); global infrastructure fund manager of the year; global infrastructure fundraising of the year; and North American infrastructure fundraising of the year.
Having closed its Brookfield Infrastructure Fund II on $7.0 billion, Brookfield was always going to be tough to beat in the categories in which it was shortlisted. In the event, it has achieved a similar level of dominance to that boasted by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in 2012, when the New York fund manager closed the largest-ever infrastructure fund on $8.25 billion.
Indeed, all four of the categories won by Brookfield this time were won by GIP 12 months previously – with GIP having added a fifth in the form of North American infrastructure fund manager of the year. That category is won this time by Meridiam Infrastructure.
Meanwhile, a treble is completed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets for North American infrastructure deal of the year (Goethals Bridge – which also takes the PPP award in North America) as well as Asia Pacific fund manager of the year.
There are multiple successes for other firms, too. France’s Vinci retains its customary supremacy in the developer categories, winning the global and European awards; Allen & Overy, also a multiple winner in past years, picks up the global and North American law firm gold medals; Australia’s IFM Investors is also a double winner (European deal of the year for Stansted Airport and Asia Pacific deal of the year for Ports Botany and Kembla); while two wins are also collected by Sweden’s EQT for European fundraising of the year and European fund manager of the year.
Meanwhile, UK-based fund managers 3i Infrastructure and Innisfree pick up two awards for the same deal: the Thameslink rolling stock project is voted both global and European public-private partnership (PPP) transaction of the year.
The fully democratic awards process drew thousands of votes from our readers, who selected from a shortlist of four firms in each of 47 categories. Voters were also free to nominate firms not named on the shortlist.
The full list of 2013 winners is as follows:
Global infrastructure personality of the year: Sam Pollock, Brookfield Asset Management
Global infrastructure fund manager of the year: Brookfield Asset Management
Global infrastructure investor of the year: Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
Global infrastructure debt provider of the year: AMP Capital
Global infrastructure deal of the year: Net4Gas (Allianz/Borealis Infrastructure)
European infrastructure deal of the year: Stansted Airport (IFM Investors)
North American infrastructure deal of the year: Goethals Bridge (Kiewit Infrastructure/Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets)
Asia Pacific infrastructure deal of the year: Ports Botany and Kembla (IFM Investors)
Latin American infrastructure deal of the year: Galeao airport concession (Odebrecht)
Middle Eastern infrastructure deal of the year: Sohar Power (MENA Infrastructure Fund)
African infrastructure deal of the year: Tanzania-Kenya road (African Development Bank)
Global PPP transaction of the year: Thameslink (3i Infrastructure/Innisfree)
European PPP transaction of the year: Thameslink (3i Infrastructure/Innisfree)
North American PPP transaction of the year: Goethals Bridge (Kiewit Infrastructure/Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets)
Asia Pacific PPP transaction of the year: New Bendigo Hospital (Capella Capital)
Global infrastructure fundraising of the year: Brookfield Asset Management
European infrastructure fundraising of the year: EQT
North American infrastructure fundraising of the year: Brookfield Asset Management
Asia Pacific infrastructure fundraising of the year: China Life
Global infrastructure placement agent of the year: Evercore Private Funds Group
Global infrastructure developer of the year: Vinci
European infrastructure developer of the year: Vinci
North American infrastructure developer of the year: Cintra
Asia Pacific infrastructure developer of the year: Lend Lease
Latin American infrastructure developer of the year: Abertis
Middle Eastern infrastructure developer of the year: Mubadala Real Estate & Infrastructure
European infrastructure fund manager of the year: EQT
North American infrastructure fund manager of the year: Meridiam Infrastructure
Asia Pacific infrastructure fund manager of the year: Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
Middle Eastern Infrastructure fund manager of the year: MENA Infrastructure Fund
African infrastructure fund manager of the year: Actis
Global infrastructure bank of the year: Mitsubishi UFJ
Infrastructure bank of the year in Europe: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Infrastructure bank of the year in North America: Royal Bank of Canada
Infrastructure bank of the year in Asia Pacific: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Infrastructure bank of the year in Latin America: Grupo Santander
Infrastructure bank of the year in the Middle East: HSBC
Infrastructure bank of the year in Africa: African Development Bank
Global infrastructure law firm of the year: Allen & Overy
Infrastructure law firm of the year in Europe: Clifford Chance
Infrastructure law firm of the year in North America: Allen & Overy
Infrastructure law firm of the year in Asia Pacific: Herbert Smith Freehills
Infrastructure law firm of the year in Latin America: Clifford Chance
Infrastructure law firm of the year in the Middle East: Norton Rose Fulbright
Global infrastructure fund administrator of the year: JP Morgan
Global infrastructure insurance house of the year: Marsh
Global corporate trust services provider of the year: Deutsche Bank
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