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Zak Bentley

Zak Bentley is a senior reporter at Infrastructure Investor based in London. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title. He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global renewable energy market, as well as the wider infrastructure market. Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
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.
The Old Mutual subsidiary’s various vehicles are now invested in about 25% of renewable energy in the country, which recently rebooted its renewables programme.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte softens threat to nationalise all concessions but warns of ‘a clear signal of change’ to how they are operated.
The UK pension has been struggling with its infra allocation, investing last year in Infracapital to make up for a slower Partners Group drawdown, but finding itself in the same situation again.
The authorities are also demanding resignations and considering fines for operator Autostrade, following the incident in Genoa which killed at least 37 people.
Macquarie’s green infra investment arm buys the development portfolio, which contains no operational sites, in its drive to build an Asia-Pacific platform.
As the manager gears up to raise as much as $7bn, we bring you interactive charts on its portfolio composition, team growth, performance and more (hover over to go full-screen).
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