Proximo Weekly: The best of Asia-Pacific 2020
Even at the height of the pandemic Asia produced some market firsts last year.
Proximo is delighted to announce its winners of Deals of the Year Asia-Pacific 2020. Even the pandemic did not manage to stop a number of benchmarks being set last year - notably the Almaty Ring Road PPP, Japan's first major offshore wind financing and the Reliance Meghnaghat transition financing.
For the first time we have also included bank and law firm awards. In a bid to create a more level playing field for smaller operators in those categories, these awards are not based on total deal volume for the year. Instead we looked at the number of participations in our winning deals list, combined with participations (at a lower weighting) in all the deals shortlisted for the awards – in short, participations in all the outstanding deals that closed in 2020, rather than all the deals that closed in 2020.
Our Americas Deals of the Year and EMEA Deals of the Year have already been announced. Detailed write-ups on all of the winning transactions are available in our Global Awards supplement - download your copy below or here.
Congratulations to all Asia-Pacific winners.
(The links below are to deal entries on Proximo's members-only Playbook platform)
Asia-Pacific Sponsor of the Year – JERA
Asia-Pacific Bank of the Year – MUFG
Asia Pacific Law Firm of the Year - Milbank
Asia-Pacific PPP Deal of the Year – Almaty Ring Road
Asia-Pacific Transport Deal of the Year – Mumbai Pune Expressway
Asia-Pacific Power Deal of the Year – Reliance Meghnaghat
Asia Pacific Offshore Wind Deal of the Year - Akita Noshiro
Asia-Pacific Bond Deal of the Year - Star Energy Geothermal
Asia-Pacific Solar Deal of the Year - SB Energy
The Global Awards supplement is now available!
Go to our awards page to download your copy today
Selected news articles from Proximo last week
NORTH AMERICA
Preliminary approval granted for American Legion Bridge PPP
The Maryland Transit Authority Board has granted preliminary approval for the amended expansion of the Beltway around the American Legion Bridge.
EUROPE
Kommunalkredit provides green loan to Spanish solar project
Cobra Concessions has raised a €27.2 million ($33 million) 21.5-year senior term loan from sole lead arranger Kommunalkredit for its 50MW operational solar PV project in the autonomous community of Castilla La Mancha, Albacete, Spain.
ASIA-PACIFIC
Japan picks consortium led by Toda to build Goto offshore wind farm
Japan's industry ministry has chosen a consortium of six companies led by Toda Corporation to build the 16.8MW Goto floating offshore wind farm in Nagasaki, southern Japan, in an auction
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Proparco, EAIF close €165m financing for Biovea project
France's Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund have closed a €165 million project finance deal and €13 million grant to secure the financing of the Biovea project, in Ivory Coast.
LATIN AMERICA
Terms for Codesa privatisation published
Brazil's Ministry of Economy has published the model and terms for the privatisation of the Companhia Docas do Espirito Santo (Codesa) port authority that operates the Vitoria and Barra do Riacho ports in Espirito Santo state.
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