Ardian has raised €2,65 billion for its fourth infrastructure investment fund, Ardian Infrastructure Fund IV. It is the largest infrastructure fund ever set up by a European company in terms of size. Ardian Infrastructure currently has approximately $7 billion in total assets under management.
As in the case of the previous fund, which closed in 2013 at €1,75 billion, the new fund will also invest in those infrastructures useful to users throughout Europe, working side by side with the main industrial partners.
Approximately 1 billion euros of the new fund has already been used in 2015 in four high-profile investments: in 2i Aeroporti, the largest airport platform in Italy, in April; in the second largest Portuguese motorway network operator together with Ascendi in July; in the acquisition from Repsol of a further stake in CLH, the largest company in Spain and the UK in the storage and transportation of oil in September; and, again in September, in Géosel, a strategic storage center in France acquired by Total.
Mathias Burghardt, member of the executive committee and head of Ardian Infrastructure, underlined in a statement that: “Through Ardian Infrastructure IV, we intend to invest in infrastructure assets essential to the community, particularly in the energy and transport sectors, capable of deliver long-term, consistent annual returns to our investors.”
