A greater range of deal opportunities coupled with multiple routes to exit are the main themes driving LPs to the mid-market, believes Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners’ Alberto Donzelli.
The region’s mid-market offers a particularly attractive mix of entry points and value creation potential for investors with genuine on-the-ground presence and repeatable execution capabilities, says CVC DIF’s Gijs Voskuyl.
For the region’s clean energy transition and its next wave of economic growth to be fully realised, mid‑market infrastructure will have to do the heavy lifting, says Equitix’s Achal Bhuwania.
While many investors are busy growing out of the mid-market, the space offers a range of investment, value creation and exit opportunities across multiple regions, say Basalt Infrastructure Partners’ John Hanna and David Greenblatt.
The lower mid-market offers compelling advantages at every stage of the investment lifecycle, says Ridgewood Infrastructure’s Ross Posner.
Mid-market infrastructure is not just a scaled-down version of the large infrastructure space, says Bérénice Arbona at LBP AM European Private Markets.
As the infrastructure sector grapples with a volatile global backdrop, participants will benefit from sticking to tangible hard assets and mid-market fundamentals, say Greystar’s Michael Hoverman, Simon Ang and David Blackford.
Avoiding market hot spots and short-term fads is key to generating successful performance, says Infranity’s Louis-Roch Burgard.
As government budgets tighten, private capital is stepping in to capture an expanding array of mid-market infrastructure opportunities worldwide, says I Squared Capital’s Mohamed El Gazzar.
Threadmark’s Bruce Chapman explains how to carve out a competitive edge in the middle bracket of the market.