22
Oct
Creative capital: Private credit’s space in infrastructure debt financing
While Europe’s M&A market struggles to regain momentum, the debt financing landscape remains fully open and dynamic. While raising equity is challenging for capital-intensive, high-growth sectors such as fibre and renewables, debt providers are increasingly offering more competitive and innovative financing solutions. This panel brings together investors and lenders to examine the evolving infrastructure debt market – exploring hybrid financing models, sector-specific risk strategies, and emerging sources of capital.
- What competitive financing options are available for refinancing and acquisition, and how is the balance shifting between equity and debt?
- Which financing structures best support greenfield projects and high-growth infrastructure portfolios?
- Is private credit competing with traditional banks or filling unique gaps in infrastructure funding?
- Is demand increasing for subordinated junior debt and structured equity, and what is the growth potential?
- Are senior infrastructure debt funds becoming more attractive as European interest rates begin to decline?
- Can new entrants succeed in the crowded infrastructure debt market, and which strategies effectively differentiate them?
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SpeakersDominik Thumfart Head of Origination, EMEA Infrastructure & Energy, Global Financing & Credit Trading Deutsche Bank
Gaétane Tracz Head of Infrastructure Debt Rivage Investment
Daniel Fuchs Head of High Yield Infrastructure Debt, Lead Portfolio Manager Global Infrastructure Debt (‘GID’) BlackRock
Vijay Peruri European Head of Capital Markets Brookfield Renewable Power & Transition Group
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Dominik Thumfart is a Managing Director and Head of Origination, Infrastructure & Energy, on Deutsche Bank´s Global Financing & Credit Trading platform. In this role, Dominik leads origination of structured finance opportunities with institutional investors (particularly the leading infrastructure fund managers globally) and a select number of strategic investors (including renewable project developers, independent power producers, and asset managers and operators of transportation & logistics, telecom, and social infrastructure assets). The Infrastructure & Energy team is a leading participant in the infrastructure debt market and acts as arranger, underwriter and lender in the greenfield and brownfield segments of the market. The team has access to very versatile capital and invests across the the senior and junior debt capital curve.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank Group in November 2008, Dominik spent fifteen years at Citigroup, predominantly in Frankfurt, London, New York, and Vienna. He was made a Managing Director in 2004 and between 2004 and 2008 was the EMEA Business Head of its Asset Finance Group, Global Markets, based in London.
Dominik holds a Master and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) and a Master of European Management (CEMS); the latter included a study term at Escuela Superior de Adminstración de Empresas (ESADE) in Barcelona.
Gaétane joined Rivage at the end of 2017 as an investment director. She had spent the 10 previous years as a Director at KPMG within the global infrastructure and Project group where she provided advisory to construction firms and infrastructure funds for their financial closings. The projects analyzed were PPPs and concessions in France and Africa.
Gaétane started her career in 2000 as an infrastructure specialist at French Ministry of Public Works and Transportation before joining the World Bank in 2003 where she advised the governments of Hungary, Russia and Georgia on infrastructure projects and developed financial models to assess the credit worthiness of infrastructure projects in various countries of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Gaétane holds a Masters in corporate finance from Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, a Masters in Management from New York University and a Masters in Civil and Transport Engineering from ENTPE Lyon.
Daniel Fuchs, Managing Director and Credit Partner, is the Head of BlackRock’s high-yield Global Infrastructure Debt (GID) fund series. He also serves as GID’s Lead Portfolio Manager.
Daniel is responsible for the development and execution of the high yield infrastructure debt strategy, including fundraising, portfolio management as well as the origination, structuring and underwriting of private infrastructure and energy transactions.
Before joining BlackRock, Daniel was a senior director at Deutsche Bank’s Structured Finance platform in New York, London and Frankfurt where he was instrumental in establishing and building-out the lender’s American Infrastructure and Energy business from its inception in 2009.
Over the course of his career, Daniel successfully originated, executed and closed over 100 infrastructure and energy transactions across developed and emerging markets, covering a multitude of sectors, including energy, power, renewables, social infrastructure, telecommunication and transportation.
Daniel holds a PhD in Finance from University of Bonn (Germany) and HEC, Paris (France).
Vijay Peruri serves as the European Head of Capital Markets at Brookfield Renewable Power & Transition Group, where he oversees all financing and risk management activities across the firm’s European portfolio companies and acquisition opportunities. With a focus on delivering innovative capital solutions that support Brookfield’s energy transition strategy, Vijay plays a key role in structuring and executing complex transactions across the region.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2021, Vijay was part of the Energy Financing team at Siemens Bank, working across London and Singapore. His work spanned Europe and Asia, where he specialized in structuring debt solutions for energy infrastructure projects.
Vijay brings over 15 years of experience in energy finance, with a deep understanding of capital markets and a strong track record in supporting sustainable investment strategies.