PPP

Plenary Americas’ senior management will retain a minority equity stake in the business, while CDPQ will take a near-90% interest in the PPP portfolio.

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In our final Deep Dive instalment, we look at the UK, the first to emphatically reject PPPs, and find an unresolved debate on value-for-money and poorly shared refinancing gains as lessons to be learned.

In the third instalment of our Deep Dive into PPPs, we look at North America and find the private sector has to help the model transition to a more developer-owned or managed scheme.

The US presidential candidate unveiled a ‘community-driven’ plan that would encourage local governments to fix existing infrastructure and invest in major, long-term projects.

But interest from the private sector was strong with 18 firms expressing interest in operating Lambert airport under a PPP agreement that would have generated $2bn in net proceeds for the city.

The project, which includes a link between Maryland and Virginia, is set to be one of the US's largest PPPs.

The firm has already made its first investment, acquiring a 44% stake in Germany’s A8 motorway from InfraVia and Egis.

The change in ownership comes as the PPP consortium reached contractual close with the NSW state government on an extension of the project.