Ardian has raised its largest infrastructure platform to date, securing a total of $20 billion to invest in essential European assets. The infrastructure platform is composed of the Ardian Infrastructure Fund VI (AIF VI), which reached its $13.5 billion hard cap, and co-investments alongside the fund.
The fund will combine the firm’s industrial approach with investment expertise across three verticals that are powering the future and supporting Europe’s competitiveness: energy, transport and digital infrastructure.
AIF VI is 90 percent larger than the previous fund in the series, Ardian Infrastructure Fund V (AIF V). AIF VI attracted interest from both existing and new investors with commitments from 229 limited partners in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
The fund saw the biggest increase in commitments from investors in the United States, with the number of U.S. investors more than doubling and accounting for 14 percent of capital r
