Blackrock appoints head of U.S. infrastructure debt
Erik V. Savi, formerly a managing director during more than three years at WestLB, has joined BlackRock as a managing director and head of U.S. infrastructure debt. He will report to Leland Hard, head of bank loans, and Jim Barry, Chief Investment Officer of the renewable power business line.
Mr. Savi built & led MetLife's Power, Energy & Infrastructure Investments Business and served as Global Co-Head of Private Debt Investments during nine years until 2007. He also worked for Philip Morris Capital Corp., Texaco and Merrill Lynch where he was Managing Director of the Energy Credit Trading Desk.
In 2012, BlackRock hired Philippe Benaroya (ex-Managing Director of the Infrastructure debt fund at Blackstone) and Chris Wrenn (ex-Managing Director at Blackstone Infrastructure fund) and Gilles Lengaigne (ex-Principal at the Blackstone Group) to run a new infrastructure debt fund.
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August 13, 2013
Credit Agricole to partner with Babson Capital for infrastructure lending
Credit Agricole has signed an alliance with Babson Capital to co-invest in global infrastructure lending. Read more -
August 14, 2013
Starwood Energy acquires Texas wind farm
Starwood Energy has announced the acquisition of the 377 MW Stephens Ranch Wind Project, located in Borden and Lynn Counties, Texas, from its joint developers, Wind Tex Energy and Mesa Power. The first phase of the Project, sized at 200 megawatts, is expected to begin construction in September 2013 and to achieve commercial operations by August 2014. Read more -
August 14, 2013
U.S. Congressmen launch Caucus on Public-Private Partnerships
U.S. Congressmen Mike Rogers (R-AL-3) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) announced in early August that they are forming the Congressional Caucus on Public-Private Partnerships, or the Congressional P3 Caucus. Read more -
August 14, 2013
ODOT receives four reponses for Portsmouth Bypass P3 project
Highway in the U.S.The mentioned consortia and their equity members are the following: Read more -
August 16, 2013
GIP sells stake in Access Midstream Partners
On 13 August 2013, Access Midstream Partners LP began an underwritten secondary public offering of 8,000,000 common units representing limited partner interests owned by Global Infrastructure Partners II. Read more
