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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has hired veteran project finance lawyer Douglas Buchanan to co-head its North American infrastructure practice as it plans to expand its focus on public-private partnerships. Buchanan will serve as senior counsel for Norton Rose Fulbright in North America, working alongside co-heads Doug Fried in the US and Greg Lewis […]
With the blame game in full swing, the country’s new government has not hesitated to politicise the Morandi Bridge collapse.
Antin is the latest foreign investor to win compensation for the country’s retroactive renewable subsidy cuts – however, the sums are minor compared with the savings netted.
The manager invested in the CSP sector in 2011 because it regarded it as ‘more sheltered from regulatory change’ than solar PV, which had been damaged by tariff cuts a year earlier.
The country’s four AP funds are one step closer to gaining more flexibility when investing in private markets.
The country’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, ending a two-year legal battle over the £2bn Neart na Gaoithe offshore project. The £2bn wind farm, which will be built over 80 square km on a site in the Forth Estuary off the North Sea, was awarded planning consent in October 2014.
As the UK continues to consider the fallout of its recent votes, three leading infrastructure investors gather to tell us why they continue to have faith in the country despite the risks.
The Piramal and APG-backed Indian developer has appointed a law firm to undertake a comprehensive review of a $2.4m loan to its chairman that was used to buy a property.
The president told House Democrats that PPPs will not solve US infrastructure problems, indicating he will extend federal spending instead for his 1$trn infra spend.
The idea that the UK's multibillion pound PFI pipeline will be nationalised is a non-starter. Still, it’s a useful reminder of how hard life would be for private investors under a hard-left government.