Antin Infrastructure Partners, the BNP Paribas-backed infrastructure fund, achieved its second closing on December 18 last year, taking the fund to half of its target size of €1 billion. BNP Paribas has invested €300 million in the fund – €150 million through BNP Paribas SA and €150 million through Cardif Insurance. Other investors put in €215 million in a fundraising that took nearly a year.
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“The European market simply does not have 20 mega deals a year, so many European funds are coming back to the $1 billion size” |
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“We launched in January 2009 but to say that the fundraising environment was difficult is an understatement,” says Alain Rauscher, chief executive at Antin.
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