Partners Group closes its largest-ever dedicated Global Infrastructure program at EUR 1 billion
Press release
Baar-Zug, 22 January 2014
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has seen strong interest from clients in its Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 program, closing it at EUR 1 billion, which makes it the largest dedicated infrastructure vehicle ever raised by the firm.
The program is twice the size of its predecessor 2009 vintage program, and will invest through an integrated approach in direct, secondary and primary opportunities in the private infrastructure space around the globe. This approach offers Partners Group the flexibility to originate a broad set of attractive opportunities and to execute on the most attractive transactions available globally to profit from market segmentation and to actively take advantage of valuation differences. In the short to mid-term, the most attractive opportunities for the program continue to exist in developed and emerging markets in sectors where investors can capture attractively priced greenfield premiums, excess returns through value creation with bolt-on/platform growth initiatives of uniquely positioned assets and incremental returns from operational improvements.
During the program's fundraising period, Partners Group's private infrastructure investment professionals screened more than 1'300 infrastructure assets and have invested in 8 of these, spread across four continents. Direct investments include an initiative to construct a series of photo-voltaic solar power plants across Southeast Asia, an agreement to acquire a pipeline operator and compression station in Latin America, the construction of a desalination plant on the US West Coast to produce drinking water for the greater San Diego area, a core regulated utility in South East England with inflation-linked cash flows which provides water service to domestic and commercial customers, and the construction of a cancer research, treatment and education facility in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. In addition, Partners Group has continued its focus on secondary opportunities and already closed three attractive transactions for the program. As a result, Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 is already over 35% committed.
Michael Barben, Partner and Co-Head Private Infrastructure, comments: “We are delighted to have seen such strong interest from our clients in this program. We are convinced that our approach of investing globally across stages, sectors and regions will allow our clients' infrastructure portfolios to achieve favourable risk-adjusted returns due to the low inherent correlation between return drivers of infrastructure assets. We anticipate fundamental trends for infrastructure investment requirements to remain unchanged and, as these funding requirements are not financeable by traditional sources, infrastructure spending by private investors to become increasingly important as a result. Our global footprint ensures access to the entire spectrum of available opportunities, allowing us to generate a greater volume of deal flow.”
Investors in Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 include a mix of new and re-upping institutional investors from public and corporate pension plans, endowment funds and foundations, insurance companies and financial institutions from around the world.
About Partners Group
Partners Group is a global private markets investment management firm with over EUR 30 billion in investment programs under management in private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure and private debt. The firm manages a broad range of customized portfolios for an international clientele of institutional investors. Partners Group is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has offices in San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, London, Guernsey, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm employs over 700 people, is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (symbol: PGHN) with a market capitalization of CHF 6 billion and a major ownership by its partners and employees.
Investor relations contact
Philip Sauer
Phone: +41 41 784 66 60
E-mail: [email protected]
Media relations contact
Alexander von Wolffradt
Phone: +41 41 784 66 45
E-mail: [email protected]
Press release
Baar-Zug, 22 January 2014
Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has seen strong interest from clients in its Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 program, closing it at EUR 1 billion, which makes it the largest dedicated infrastructure vehicle ever raised by the firm.
The program is twice the size of its predecessor 2009 vintage program, and will invest through an integrated approach in direct, secondary and primary opportunities in the private infrastructure space around the globe. This approach offers Partners Group the flexibility to originate a broad set of attractive opportunities and to execute on the most attractive transactions available globally to profit from market segmentation and to actively take advantage of valuation differences. In the short to mid-term, the most attractive opportunities for the program continue to exist in developed and emerging markets in sectors where investors can capture attractively priced greenfield premiums, excess returns through value creation with bolt-on/platform growth initiatives of uniquely positioned assets and incremental returns from operational improvements.
During the program's fundraising period, Partners Group's private infrastructure investment professionals screened more than 1'300 infrastructure assets and have invested in 8 of these, spread across four continents. Direct investments include an initiative to construct a series of photo-voltaic solar power plants across Southeast Asia, an agreement to acquire a pipeline operator and compression station in Latin America, the construction of a desalination plant on the US West Coast to produce drinking water for the greater San Diego area, a core regulated utility in South East England with inflation-linked cash flows which provides water service to domestic and commercial customers, and the construction of a cancer research, treatment and education facility in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. In addition, Partners Group has continued its focus on secondary opportunities and already closed three attractive transactions for the program. As a result, Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 is already over 35% committed.
Michael Barben, Partner and Co-Head Private Infrastructure, comments: “We are delighted to have seen such strong interest from our clients in this program. We are convinced that our approach of investing globally across stages, sectors and regions will allow our clients' infrastructure portfolios to achieve favourable risk-adjusted returns due to the low inherent correlation between return drivers of infrastructure assets. We anticipate fundamental trends for infrastructure investment requirements to remain unchanged and, as these funding requirements are not financeable by traditional sources, infrastructure spending by private investors to become increasingly important as a result. Our global footprint ensures access to the entire spectrum of available opportunities, allowing us to generate a greater volume of deal flow.”
Investors in Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 include a mix of new and re-upping institutional investors from public and corporate pension plans, endowment funds and foundations, insurance companies and financial institutions from around the world.
About Partners Group
Partners Group is a global private markets investment management firm with over EUR 30 billion in investment programs under management in private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure and private debt. The firm manages a broad range of customized portfolios for an international clientele of institutional investors. Partners Group is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has offices in San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, London, Guernsey, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm employs over 700 people, is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (symbol: PGHN) with a market capitalization of CHF 6 billion and a major ownership by its partners and employees.
Investor relations contact
Philip Sauer
Phone: +41 41 784 66 60
E-mail: [email protected]
Media relations contact
Alexander von Wolffradt
Phone: +41 41 784 66 45
E-mail: [email protected]