M&A Deal Summary

OMERS Infrastructure and Wren House Infrastructure Acquire Associated British Ports

On January 1, 2006, infrastructure investors OMERS Infrastructure and Wren House Infrastructure acquired infrastructure company Associated British Ports

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OMERS Infrastructure’s 2nd and Wren House Infrastructure’s 1st transaction in the Infrastructure sector.
  • This is OMERS Infrastructure’s 2nd and Wren House Infrastructure’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2006-01-01
Target Associated British Ports
Sector Infrastructure
Buyer(s) OMERS Infrastructure
Wren House Infrastructure
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Associated British Ports

London, United Kingdom
Associated British Ports is providing operations and maintenance (O&M) for over 50% of the sector’s activity, as well as building infrastructure in facilities like green port hull, a joint investment with SGRE, the largest Offshore Wind blade manufacturer, and LEEF (Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility). Associated British Ports was founded in 1962 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Buyer(S) 2

Buyer

OMERS Infrastructure

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Infrastructure
Founded 1990
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

OMERS Infrastructure is the infrastructure investment arm of Canadian pension plan OMERS. OMERS targets 'large-scale' infrastructure investments valued in excess of $1 billion where the firm can commit at least $200 million of equity capital. Prospective opportunities generally possess significant governmental or regulatory barriers to entry, as well as stable cash-flows linked to long-term contracts. Specific areas of interest include energy (generation, transmission and distribution networks), transportation (transportation gateways, rail corridors, ports and airports), institutional facilities (hospitals, long-term care facilities and schools), and government-regulated services (laboratory diagnostic services, satellite and other communications networks and land registry services). OMERS was formed in 1990 and is based in Toronto.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 53
Sector (Infrastructure) 2 of 7
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 10 of 23
Country (United Kingdom) 2 of 5
Year (2006) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-06-01 SGN

Horley, United Kingdom

SGN is a gas distribution company and provides natural gas to 5.7 million customers in Scotland and the south and southeast of England. SGN operates regulated gas distribution networks in England, Wales, and Scotland, under a license from Ofgem to distribute gas through their infrastructure network. SGN was founded in 2005 and is based in Horley, United Kingdom.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-01-01 DynaLIFE

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

DynaLIFE provides professional, care-driven results to patients, hospitals, pharmaceutical, government and other industry clients. DynaLIFE was founded in 1995 and is based in Edmonton, Canada.

Buy -
Buyer

Wren House Infrastructure

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Infrastructure
Founded 2013
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Wren House Infrastructure is an infrastructure focused private investment firm and subsidiary of sovereign wealth fund the Kuwait Investment Authority. The Firm targets investments across the core and core plus infrastructure sectors which includes transport, energy, utilities, telecoms, healthcare, agriculture and social infrastructure. Wren House Infrastructure was formed in 2013 and is headquartered in London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 14
Sector (Infrastructure) 1 of 2
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 1 of 1
Country (United Kingdom) 1 of 5
Year (2006) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-03-30 GPG

Madrid, Spain

GPG is a global, primarily “clean technology” generation company, with ¬3GW of generation capacity in 7 countries and a significant pipeline of projects. GPG is based in Madrid, Spain.

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