Infralogic Investors Forum Europe 2023
The European edition of our Investors Forum returns this October!
etc.venues County Hall, London
11
Oct
Airport M&A in the post-pandemic world
Airports are still reeling from the pandemic with traffic levels yet to return to 2019 levels. This has hit M&A in the sector as investors wait for a full recovery before selling. But share prices of many operators have rebounded and many expect a busy summer to fuel airports’ recovery.
- Will strong traffic figures for 2023 help to reignite the market?
- Or has the pandemic resulted in permanent changes (such as less business travel) that will prevent a full recovery?
- Is there potential for distressed situations as weaker airports continue to suffer from low traffic?
- Will concerns over decarbonisation deter some investors or attract others keen to invest in decarbonisation?
- What are the prospects for airport privatisations?
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SpeakersVlad Ivanov Managing Director, Head of EMEA Infrastructure & Transport JPMorgan
Eimear Connery Head of Airport Technical Advisory Practice Infrata
Alexis Ballif Managing Director Infrastructure - Transport Ardian
Stefan Rueter SVP Group Controlling & Financial Planning Fraport
Zeynep Lucchini Gilera Investment Director InfraVia Capital Partners
Marcus Balmforth Founder and Managing Director Skylark Consulting Group
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Mr. Ivanov joined J.P. Morgan in 2003, and has served as a member of the European energy team and subsequently the European infrastructure and transport practice. He has over 50 completed transactions in the space across products and currently leads the Infrastructure and Transport IB coverage across EMEA. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Ivanov had corporate finance experience with Citigroup. He holds a Master degree in International Business and Finance from Moscow State Institute for International Relations, and Executive MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and London Business School. Mr. Ivanov speaks English, German and Russian.
Eimear Connery Heads up Aviation Technical Advisory Services at Infrata. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 18 years' of experience in the industry. She joined Infrata in 2016, from Aecom whom she was with for over 11 years through their legacy companies URS and Scott Wilson, bringing with her, her broad range of airport project experience and skills including master planning, feasibility assessments, due diligence studies, design and monitoring of major airport developments worldwide including on the design of the New Istanbul Airport. Since joining Infrata she has been involved in over 50 transaction projects across all infrastructure classes with her main focus in recent years being airports and the aviation industry. Her remit is a global one from small regional airports to major international transport hubs. Eimear leads Infrata’s services for both the US$9.5 billion, New Terminal One Project at JFK and the US$1.25 billion expansion project at Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima both of which closed in 2022.
Alexis Ballif is Managing Director.
Alexis is a board member of portfolio companies such as Ascendi, LISEA, SPMR and Geosel.
Alexis joined Ardian in 2008. Previously, he carried out various internships within Pricewaterhouse Coopers and construction company Paris Ouest.
Stefan J. Rüter, is SVP Group Controlling and Financial Planning at Fraport. From 2017 till end of 2021, Stefan was Chief Financial Officer at Oman Airports Group. The group majorly owns and operates seven airports in the Sultanate of Oman. In addition to the airport businesses, Oman Airports owns and operates Oman Ground handling as well as Transom SATS Cargo, a premiere cargo operation handler. Before joining Oman Airports, Stefan was SVP Finance and Investor Relations - already at Fraport. From the very beginning of his career, Stefan completed a bank training and graduated as Master in International Finance and Law. After his university study, Stefan started in 1999 at Continental AG, a German blue chipautomotive supplier, first in Corporate Finance and later in Investor Relations.
Zeynep joined the Infrastructure investment team in 2016 and sits on its investment committee. With a strong M&A and project finance background, Zeynep focuses on origination and execution of transactions in particular in the telecom, renewables and education sectors. She currently serves on the board of several portfolio companies. Previously, Zeynep worked at KPMG Corporate Finance in Paris as financial advisor in the Global Infrastructure and Projects Group.
Marcus Balmforth is Managing Director and Founder of Skylark Consulting Group, a leading Transport Infrastructure Management Consultancy. He is an experienced industry veteran with over two decades expertise supporting investors and airport management unlock hidden value through operational improvement. His specific background and experience in Traffic development, Retail and Airport Commercial Development is used to lead strategy and business planning in all assignments.
Marcus has carried out significant commercial development projects at Luton Airport as an executive director resulting in 30% + revenue per passenger growth, and as a director of Bristol, Rome and Birmingham airports. Most recently he provided strategic and business plan advisory services to the winning consortium of a minority shareholding in Brussels Airport.
He has a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Surrey University and a Bachelor of Science (BSc. Hons) from Bristol University.