Kalliope Gourntis
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Leonard Green’s acquisition of US Infrastructure Corp represents the firm’s foray into energy.
The Danish pension will provide a $200m mezzanine loan for the Cape Wind project.
The fund is now free of timber assets as part of a wider Brookfield asset sale to Weyerhaeuser, worth $2.65bn.
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The acquisition provides access to Union Group’s portfolio of investments in Latin American real assets.
After heading the DOT’s infrastructure office, Jacob Falk re-joins Chadbourne’s project finance group.
Forty-three percent of pension plans are now invested in real assets compared to only 5% a decade ago, study finds.
The investment is part of a capital increase led by Latin America Power’s shareholders.
The investment represents the company’s first in the energy sector and second in infrastructure.
The External Affairs Minister presented India’s case during his three-day visit to the Scandinavian country.
Applications for the fifth round of the DOT’s stimulus programme total more than $9bn.