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Macquarie Capital Advisers has more than 320 dedicated professionals working in Europe, with a presence in London, Frankfurt, Vienna, Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris and Zurich. Our activities include:
Corporate advisory services
Macquarie Capital Advisers provides advisory services and debt and equity underwriting to corporate and government clients.
Advisory services include project financing, private finance initiatives (PFI), public private partnerships (PPP), takeovers, mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring and other corporate strategic and financial advice. Macquarie now has the largest dedicated private sector PFI team in the UK.
We focus on the infrastructure (toll roads, rail, airports, utilities, telecommunications), industrials and natural resources sectors, leveraging our key areas of expertise.
Recent European transactions include:
| Transport and Infrastructure Services |
- Joint financial adviser to Grupo Ferrovial on its £10.11bn takeover of BAA plc. Lead financial adviser on subsequent refinancing.
- Financial adviser and debt arranger for the DKK 7620m public market acquisition of Copenhagen Airports by Macquarie Airports.
- Financial adviser to Eiffage/ Macquarie consortium's acquisition of a majority stake in Autoroutes Paris Rhin-Rhone.
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| Infrastructure Development |
- Majority equity sponsor and financial adviser on Peterborough Hospitals which is a £500m UK project.
- Financial adviser to Macquarie Infrastructure Group on the £900m development and subsequent re-financing of the M6 Toll, the UK's only toll road.
- Financial adviser to John Laing Infrastructure Ltd, Johann BUNTE Bauunternehmung und Bilfinger Berger BOT on financing the €550m development of the A1 Toll Road, the third A-Programme toll road in Germany.
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| Utilities |
- Financial adviser, equity underwriter and debt and equity arranger on the £8bn acquisition of Thames Water by a Macquarie-led consortium.
- Financial adviser, equity and debt arranger to the Greensands consortium of JP Morgan, Challenger, UBS, Access Capital Partners and Hermes in the £4.2bn acquisition of Southern Water.
- Financial adviser, equity underwriter, debt and equity arranger for the €1.2bn acquisition of Wales & West Utilities by a Macquarie-led consortium.
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| Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment and Technology |
- Financial adviser and debt arranger for the £1.9bn acquisition of Airwave by Macquarie Funds.
- Financial adviser, debt and equity arranger for the £2.5bn acquisition of National Grid Wireless by Arqiva.
- Financial adviser and debt arranger for the acquisition and merger of YBR and TDC Directories to form a €2.5bn pan European directories business, European Directories.
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| Industrials |
- Financial adviser to a combined bid by EQT and a Macquarie-led consortium to acquire the travel concessions of Select Service Partners (SSP). Following a managed separation, EQT owned the catering and retail units of SSP while the Macquarie-led consortium owned the UK's largest motorway services operator, Moto.
- Financial adviser to the Macquarie-led consortium on the acquisition of Dyno-Nobel for US$1.7bn and the subsequent restructure resulting in listing of the Australian and North American operations and acquisition of the other operations by Orica.
- Financial adviser in the exclusive £95m deal in which Hastie Group Limited acquired Rotary Limited, a leading business services company with operations in the UK, Republic of Ireland and the Middle East.
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| Natural Resources |
- Joint financial adviser to Xstrata plc on its US$10bn proposed offer for Lonmin plc.
- Joint financial adviser to Rio Tinto on its response to the US$140bn unsolicited takeover offer from BHP Billiton.
- Financial adviser to ArcelorMittal on it's A$900m acquisition of a 19.9% stake in Macarthur Coal Limited.
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| Real Estate |
- Financial adviser to Goodman Group's £649m acquisition of Akeler Holdings.
- Financial adviser and lead manager for the €624m unlisted equity raising of Goodman European Logistics Fund.
- Financial adviser to GPT Group's €75m acquisition of Halverton Real Estate Management.
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Macquarie Capital Products
Macquarie Capital Products is a global business with activities in London, Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich. The business is broad-based and includes "big-ticket" leasing, tax efficient financing, alternative assets and retail distribution of various Macquarie investment opportunities throughout Europe. In addition, the team provides structuring, accounting and tax skills to support Macquarie's corporate advisory and infrastructure transactions across Europe.
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