Portland Secures Two More Mandates
Portland Advisers has secured two new financial advisory mandates – one in the UK raising construction finance for two solar parks and the other providing bidding support for a waste infrastructure project in Greece. The former is to raise finance on a short term basis for two solar parks in the South West of the […]
Green Chairs Panel at Euromoney Institutional & Alternative Lender Conference
Monday, September 23rd, 2013 In the conference season, Jason Green, Senior Advisor at Portland, chaired a panel discussion amongst institutional investors and asset managers at Euromoney’s inaugural Institutional & Alternative Lending conference in London on 19th-20th September. With representatives from Allianz Global Investors, Legal & General Investment Management, Aviva Investors and the world’s largest […]
Knox acts as Expert Witness
Geoff Knox acted as an expert witness to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the recently settled $3.5 billion lawsuit filed by Perdaman Chemicals against an Australian subsidiary of Lanco Infratech Limited. Geoff was approached to use his experience of raising non-recourse project financing for major projects to provide input into matters surrounding the […]
BBC seeks Portland perspective on Sir Alex’s retirement
Following the official announcement by Sir Alex Ferguson that he will retire from his position as manager of Manchester United at the end of the current season in favour of a role as Director and Club Ambassador, Portland’s Head of Stadium Finance, Harry Philp, was sought out by the BBC to reflect on the impact […]
US Ex-Im Bank board approves Indian Solar PV project
US Ex-Im Bank has announced that its Board of Directors has approved an export finance loan of US$ 9 million as part of the debt financing for a 11.6 MW solar PV project in Rajasthan, India sponsored by KSK Energy Ventures, an Indian power developer. Debt is being co-financed by IDBI Bank Ltd. Portland Advisers […]
Portland Thought Leadership in Nuclear Power financing
David Stearns, who leads Portland’s nuclear power practice, recently published a thought piece in Nuclear Intelligence Weekly, offering perspectives on nuclear power as an asset class and the outlook for attracting low-cost capital for new-build projects. A copy of the article can be found by clicking here. For further information, contact David at david.stearns@portlandadvisers.com or on […]
Flitterman Chairs Panel at TMT Finance Conference
In the conference season, Nick Flitterman, Portland’s Head of Telecom’s, chaired a panel discussion amongst bankers and financing executives at TMT Finance’s annual M&A forum in London on 14th March. With representatives from BNP Paribas, Investec, the EBRD, Digital World Capital and Houlihan Lokey, Nick guided the panel through a lively discussion of topical financing […]
Portland Panelist at Telecom Finance 2013 Conference
On 30th January, demonstrating his continued thought leadership in the sector, Nick Flitterman, Portland’s Head of Telecoms, joined a distinguished panel of bankers and finance executives at Telecom Finance’s annual conference in London to discuss a number of topical issues and trends in financing telecom infrastructure projects today. The panel debated topics such as pressure […]
GAP gets DFID “Green Light”
In November 2012, the Green Africa Power (“GAP”) initiative received approval from the Department For International Development (“DFID”) for the UK’s proposed contribution to GAP, a new company to be established under the Private Infrastructure Development Group (“PIDG”) Trust. A substantial amount of funds have been dedicated to help capitalise GAP which will support the […]
Portland advises on Welsh National Broadband project
In a team lead by Frauke Bialokoz, Portland Advisers has been advising the IT Procurement Team in the Welsh Government on the Next Generation Broadband for Wales (NGBW) project. Following a competitive process BT was awarded the Next Generation Broadband project for Wales in July 2012 , subject to European State Aid approvals. Following completion (scheduled […]