Deal analysis: Funding France’s biggest concession

Sponsors, banks and public authorities have started on the ‘long and winding road’ to reaching financial close for the €7.8bn high-speed rail line connecting Tours and Bordeaux. But is an end of year deadline too ambitious to gather €1.6bn in commercial debt and some €800m in equity?

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