Dasha Afanasieva
Stories by Dasha Afanasieva
Polish SWF-backed group set to buy Macquarie-owned port terminal in $1.7b deal
The winning consortium also includes Australian infrastructure group IFM Investors and PSA international.
SoftBank Vision Fund seeks to raise $4b in debt
The transaction would be the first test of debt investors’ appetite for the Saudi-backed technology fund since the crisis triggered by the murder of
Bharti Airtel picks banks for London IPO of Africa business
The Africa business represents just over a quarter of the revenue of the listed entity, which has a $20 billion market capitalisation.
UK lending platform Funding Circle to list shares on London Stock Exchange
Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen has pledged to buy at least 10 per cent of the company.
Saudi wealth fund PIF in talks to invest in aspiring Tesla rival Lucid
Incidentally, PIF is the Saudi fund that Tesla CEO Elon Musk said could help him fund a $72 billion deal to take his electric car maker private.
China Three Gorges sounds out interest in EDP’s US assets
The aim of identifying potential buyers is to preempt any objections from U.S. authorities, who are increasingly scrutinising Chinese acquisitions of
Macquarie said to be pulling out from Russian infrastructure fund
The infrastructure fund solely managed by Macquarie had a target size of $1 billion to $1.5 billion but only raised $630 million.
Kazakh mining company ERG seeks to spin off, list assets
The assets sales will help ERG pay off some of its debt. As of July 2016, it owed $5.8 billion to its main creditors, VTB and Sberbank.
Russia’s En+ said to invite banks to pitch for $1b share sale
Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska and family members own 76.6% of En+, which has assets in metals and energy.
Qatar poised to buy into En+ as Russia tests investor interest
The En+ IPO is the first major float of a Russian company in London since 2014 and one of the biggest European issues of 2017.
