Amber Infrastructure Group is a leading international sponsor and manager of social and economic infrastructure. Amber has a long standing international reputation in the origination, development and management of specialist infrastructure.

Our businesses cover a wide range of infrastructure sectors and services across three continents

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Amber Infrastructure is a leading developer and advisor on infrastructure projects in both the ‘primary’ development and ‘secondary’ investment markets.

Key facts

• Wide breadth of offering across a broad spectrum of infrastructure asset classes including regulated assets, service concessions, strategic partnering frameworks and public sector funding models
• Particularly active in green energy – efficiency and transmission, regeneration, public-private-partnerships, rail and rolling stock leasing
• Developed ‘primary’ (new build) infrastructure projects with a capital value of £3.8bn
• Advised on the successful £58m acquisition of BSFI’s Building Schools for the Future portfolio of over 100 schools across the UK

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Amber Asset Management is a specialist infrastructure asset manager focused on the provision of value-focussed asset performance and risk management services.

Key facts

• Over £4bn of infrastructure projects managed including assets in the education, health, transport, courts, police authority, custodial, leisure and energy sectors
• Significant presence in UK, Australia, Western Europe and Canada
• Over 13 years of experience in actively managing infrastructure assets
• Long-term / whole-life partnering approach to value enhancement and risk mitigation
• Significant focus on long-term occupier relationships and customer satisfaction

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Amber Fund Management manages a range of specialist infrastructure funds on behalf of private and public sector clients.

Key facts

• Manager of c. £750m of equity on behalf of over 2,000 public and private sector investors. More than £4bn of assets under management
• Since its inception in 2006, Amber Fund Management has operated and advised International Public Partnerships, a FTSE 250 listed infrastructure fund with a market cap of over £600m
• Amber is the advisor and operator of the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales, the London Energy Efficiency Fund and Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres

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Amber Australia is a leading developer and manager of infrastructure assets in Australasia.

Key facts

• Her Majesty the Queen opened the Amber developed and managed A$1bn Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne in 2011
• Amber, as part of a consortium, reached financial close on the c.A$1bn Gold Coast Rapid Transport project, the largest Australian PPP to close in 2011
• Amber developed and continue to manage a portfolio of other significant infrastructure assets across the three eastern counties of Australia including Orange Hospital, Royal Melbourne Showgrounds and Long Bay Forensic & Prisons Hospital

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Amber Infrastructure GmbH is a significant developer and manager of infrastructure opportunities in Germany.

Key facts

• Amber in conjunction with BAM reached financial close on the first civil building PPP project procured by the German Federal government – the Federal Ministry of Education building in Berlin. This was the largest civil building PPP project procured by the German Federal government in 2011
• Amber co-manages BeNEX, a significant investor in German train and bus operating concessions making it the joint-second largest public rail operator in Germany after Deutsche Bahn with more than 1,600 employees
• The Amber operated International Public Partnerships fund, invests in 6 rail and 3 bus concessions in Germany
• Closed the largest German school PPP in 2009. The Pforzheim project was also the first school project to be awarded the German PPP Innovation Award

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Amber North America provides asset management services and development support in relation to PPP assets in Canada.

Key facts

• Amber personnel led the origination, development and financial close of the first schools P3 to be procured in the Alberta Province. The project was awarded the 2008 North American Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year by Project Finance Magazine
• Amber continue to actively manage 18 schools across Calgary and Edmonton
• Amber personnel developed and continue to manage the 440,000sqft CAD$202m Durham Region Courthouse. The courthouse won the 2011 Award of Excellence in the Green Building category awarded by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
• The Alberta schools and Durham Courthouse projects have won a number of other awards including 1st and 2nd at the 2010 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in P3s by the Canadian Council for public-private-partnerships

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Amber Solutions for Care (ASC) has been formed within the Amber Group of companies to focus on financing, development and ongoing management of health and social care infrastructure.

Key facts

• Portfolio of £1.6bn across 28 health projects around the globe
• One of the leading developer-investors in Local Improvement Finance Trusts (“LIFT”)
• Provision of innovative investment solutions across community healthcare and Extra Care projects
• Over 20 LIFT projects in the UK with a combined capital value of over £375m
• Amber also has a further £1.0bn of other health assets under management through Amber Australia

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Building on the successful acquisition of the Building Schools for the Future portfolio and previous historical track record in developing, owning and managing schools projects, Amber Education Partners provides asset management and development expertise in the education infrastructure market.

Key facts

• Amber manages a portfolio of more than 200 individual schools across England, Scotland and Wales
• More than 13 years of team experience in bid development and asset management of schools projects including 9 schools in Alberta, Canada
• Amber advised International Public Partnerships on the acquisition of BSFI LLP during 2011, the largest secondary PFI acquisition that year and the largest ever portfolio sale of school project investments

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Amber Green develops opportunities in the sustainable regeneration and energy efficiency sectors. To date this has principally been through Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (“JESSICA”) initiative.

Key facts

• The preeminent fund operator for JESSICA funds in Europe
• Amber Green has three unlisted funds under management with a combined capital value of £150m
• Investment focus is currently in Wales, Scotland and London but seeking new opportunities elsewhere in the UK and Europe

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Amber is a joint owner of Transmission Capital Partners, a developer and manager of opportunities in the electricity transmission sector.

Key facts

• Transmission Capital Partners in conjunction with the Amber advised International Public Partnerships fund, became the first consortium to reach financial close in the new UK offshore transmission operator (“OFTO”) sector
• Amber has successfully invested in 3 offshore transmission networks, making it the largest owner of such assets
• Amber is preferred bidder on a fourth OFTO due to close early 2012, and shortlisted for a further three OFTOs currently in procurement
• Amber also provides ongoing asset management and SPV management services to each of the OFTO assets

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