Upcoming events

TransFin 2008

The Infrastructure and Transport group is pleased to sponsor TransFin 2008, Europe's most exciting event focussing on innovative financing for global transport and infrastructure projects across road, rail, ports, airports and highways maintenance. The conference will be held in Barcelona between 1-4 July 2008.

Topics to be covered include: Planning Transport in a Carbon Critical World; What has Changed in Terms of Debt Availability and Equity Terms for New Transactions?; Rolling Stock Financing - Another Form of Infrastructure Finance and Examining the Current Stage of Development and Prospects of Russian Transport Infrastructure Projects Within the Context of the Changing Legal Environment.

Past events

The IATA Legal Symposium 2008

The IATA Legal Symposium is the world's premier annual aviation law event, with a reputation for insight, relevance and value among aviation industry in-house counsel, private practitioners and government attorneys. The Symposium is known for outstanding speakers, a lively exchange of ideas and extensive networking opportunities and was held in Buenos Aires on 10-12 February.

The topics covered included: Airline Alliances, Mergers and Joint Ventures; The Protection of Passenger Privacy and Air Transportation Data; Focus on Latin America and Airline Insurance and Risk Management. Alan Ryan, one of our Aviation and Airports sub-sector leaders, spoke at the Symposium.

Infrastructure Investors Forum 2008

We were pleased to once again host the 2nd annual infrastructure investors forum, in collaboration with InfraNews, on 28 February 2008 at our offices. The one day briefing, entitled Investing in European Infrastructure as an Established Asset Class, brought together many leading infrastructure investors and financiers in a Chatham House rules environment. The topics covered included: the current state of the market, how parameters have changed in the past six months, the opening of new markets and recent changes in the debt markets.

To view the event programme, please see the Infrastructure Investors Forum brochure.

News

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Briefings

Infrastructure: the current climate  View

The effect of the liquidity crisis on infrastructure as an asset class  View

Awards

Deal of the Year 2007 - Infrastructure Journal Awards 2008 (2008)

Renewable Energy Project Financing of the Year - Environmental Finance Awards (2008)

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