Investment Summary

3i Infrastructure Invests In Soma Enterprise

On November 30, 2007, infrastructure investor 3i Infrastructure invested in engineering company Soma Enterprise

Investment Highlights
  • This is 3i Infrastructure’s 1st transaction in the Engineering sector.
  • This is 3i Infrastructure’s 2nd transaction in India.

Investment Summary

Date 2007-11-30
Target Soma Enterprise
Sector Engineering
Investor(s) 3i Infrastructure
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Soma Enterprise

Hyderabad, India
Soma Enterprise Limited (“Soma”), a Hyderabad-based engineering and construction firm, is one of the largest and fastest growing infrastructure developers in India.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

3i Infrastructure

St Helier, Channel Islands

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Category Infrastructure
Founded 2007
PE ASSETS 3.9B GBP
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

3i Infrastructure plc is a listed infrastructure investment arm of 3i Group plc. 3i infrastructure invests mainly in Europe and Asia companies with stable underlying performance: asset-intensive businesses, providing essential services over the long term, often on a regulated basis, or with significant contracted revenues. The firm focuses on the Utilities, Transportation, and Social Infrastructure sectors through equity and junior or mezzanine debt investments in the range of £100m–£300 million per transaction. 3i infrastructure was formed in 2007 and is based in Jersey, Channel Islands.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 31
Sector: Engineering M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 2 of 5
Country: India M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2007 M&A 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-10-26 Adani Power

Ahemdabad, India

Adani Power is a developer of an independent 2,640 MW imported coal-based thermal power plant in Gujarat. Adani Power was founded in 1988 and is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-02-01 Krishnapatnam Port Co.

Jubilee Hills, India

Krishnapatnam Port Company Limited (KPCL) has been awarded a 30-year concession (extendable to 50 years) by Government of Andhra Pradesh to develop, operate and maintain the Krishnapatnam Port on a landlord port model. It is a natural, deep water, all weather port with 12 km of quays in the state of Andhra Pradesh,. Inaugurated last July, the port is expected to handle about 100 million tonnes (mt) of bulk and container cargo when fully completed.

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