Zak Bentley
James Gordon has joined the group as an investment director, following a raft of senior staff departures earlier this year.
The firm’s third vehicle is nearly two-and-a-half times larger than its $3.1bn predecessor, which was raised in 2015, and has secured two deals to date.
The fund is seeking up to €500m, €50m more than its predecessor, which closed in 2014 and is performing above target.
The firm has lured Macquarie Capital’s midstream MD Ed Winter, while appointing Guillaume Vandewalle to the debt team.
The group, which was an underbidder in EQT’s 2015 sale, has now succeeded in acquiring the transmission system operator, its second Swedish gas investment since March.
Mark Corben was ‘pivotal’ to the regulated-asset-base model used for the Thames Tideway project, which the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is looking to replicate.
The Danish pension scheme’s half-year activities included joining a $6.7bn Macquarie-led ticket to buy telecoms group TDC.
The vehicle has secured 65 investments to date and is a successor to a €240m vintage launched in 2010.
The firm has again bid €53 per share for the Hamburg-based company, despite the price being previously dismissed.
Euan McVicar is the second recent departure from Macquarie Group to the UK electricity regulator, following Simon Wilde’s move earlier this month.