Partners holds €1b final close for global infrastructure vehicle

Partners Group has closed its Partners Group Global Infrastructure 2012 program with €1 billion ($1.35 billion), making it the firm’s largest dedicated infrastructure vehicle. A fundraising target was not disclosed.

The vehicle invests through an integrated approach in direct, secondary and primary opportunities in the private infrastructure space around the globe. Partners Group has started to invest the fund’s capital; the fund has invested in eight assets around globe.

Direct investments include an initiative to construct a series of photo-voltaic solar power plants across Southeast Asia; an agreement to acquire a pipeline operator and compression station in Latin America; the construction of a desalination plant on the West Coast to produce drinking water for the greater San Diego area; a core regulated utility in southeast England with in