Zak Bentley
Zak Bentley is an Americas Editor at Infrastructure Investor based in New York. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title.
He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global infrastructure asset class.
Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
Infrastructure secondaries are enjoying a surge in dealflow and limited competition thanks to significant barriers to entry, seven specialists tell Infrastructure Investor.
Global Infrastructure Solutions is targeting $2.5bn and for the first time has a dedicated secondaries sleeve.
The School Employees Retirement System of Ohio recently confirmed a commitment to the continuation vehicle.
Macquarie Alliance Partners Infrastructure Fund is understood to have a $1bn hard-cap, per affiliate title Infrastructure Investor.
Amid LP demand for liquidity and distributions, the infra secondaries market saw an unprecedented rise last year. We uncover how this positions the market for future growth.
The mid-market sustainable infrastructure investor's process around midstream infrastructure group Third Coast began with a first close on the CV in July.
As continuation vehicles become more common in infrastructure, LPs are putting such structures under the microscope.
Five years after the US power company's $17bn take-private, the energy-focused firm is rolling about 20% of the existing LPs into a single-asset vehicle.
The capital collected for the North American data centre platform puts it among the largest single-asset continuation funds raised.
UBS's 2008-vintage infrastructure fund holds a stake in Southern Water, which is trying to come back from a record fine for environmental breaches.