Infrastructure Finance

The CEO's of all the big banks have been publicly quoted as saying that infrastructure banking is going to be one of the largest money machines in the next few years. Has anyone heard of any buyside firms ramping up for it (outside of the obvious cintra/macquarie tandem)

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Could you elaborate a little bit about why they think this will be/is so lucrative?

Also, what is it about the area that really makes money for the banks? Advisory, debt, arranging PE/fund type structures?

 

Research the Indiana Toll Road and the Chicago Skyway. Several billion dollar assets that allow banks to go for the "triple play" advisory/financing/PE. Plus they are crummily mangaged "margin play" with stable cash-flow (i.e. equity portion a pension fund dream). Oh yeah and there just so happens to be alot of assets and extremely strained public budgets.

 

Interesting. Thanks for the leads. I have only recently started reading up on this sector.

I have knowledge of RE private equity investments so can understand the rationale for taking large assets/portfolios with stable cash flows and earning fees from slicing up the capital structure, selling the layers of to whomever is interested and maybe retaining a layer for your firm/LPs. Seems like a similar concept on the surface.

 

between infrastructure finance and "Project Finance"? From the information already cited in the thread, the two actually sound synonymous. Could this simply be a spin on traditional project finance scope?

 

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