PPPs

I Squared Capital’s Sadek Wahba proposes the creation of a national infra bank, a PPP advisory trust and tax reforms to further unlock foreign institutional investment.

Post-covid, risk-averse investors will have to deal with more government intervention as well as the agendas of ESG and climate change, say Martin Nelson-Jones, Colin Wilson and Howard Bassford of DLA Piper.

After lockdowns led to financial duress, S&P Global Ratings’ Trevor d’Olier-Lees and Dhaval Shah see an uncertain road to recovery.

In the second instalment of our Deep Dive into PPPs, we take a look at the market in Australia and New Zealand and find the region to be one of the most welcoming for the model, especially when it comes to large projects.

A laundry list of troubles threaten to sink the venerable procurement framework. But there are some bold ideas for re-energising it.

Contractual rigidity, value-for-money questions and bad risk allocation all threaten to sink the model. Major intervention will be needed to bring it back to health.

How Blackstone's mega fund, the continuing rise of renewables and uncertain future of PPPs will shape the market

Greece’s privatisation agency agreed an extension to the existing concession agreement through November 2046 in order to make the 30% stake on offer ‘sexier and more attractive’.