Infrastructure assets: Behind infrastructure’s gold rush

The weight of specialized fund and private equity money now chasing infrastructure assets means that everything and anything is up for grabs. Louise Bowman reports.

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WHEN GERMAN ELECTRICITY utility E.On walked away from buying Scottish Power in November 2005, its 570p per share offer had already been received with disbelief in some quarters – the Germans were clearly mad to think that the company was worth that much. But one year later Spanish utility Iberdrola looks like it has taken E.On’s place and no one is dismissing anything in the utility sector any more. Following a series of astonishing bidding wars over the past year, UK utilities are being bought and sold at multiples that seem to defy logic.

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