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Africa Investor (Ai) Infrastructure Investment Awards 2014 Shortlist Announced
Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group, today announced the shortlist for its prestigious 7th Africa investor (Ai) Infrastructure Investment Awards 2014.
The Ai Infrastructure Investment Awards will take place during the 7th annual Africa investor (Ai) CEO Infrastructure Investment Summit. The Ai CEO Infrastructure Investment Summit is the calendar event and premier business development forum for infrastructure investors, fund managers, pension and sovereign wealth funds, project developers, project sponsors and PPP policy makers. The Summit and Awards will take place on the 6th of May 2014 at the Hilton Transcorp, Abuja, Nigeria.
The Ai Infrastructure Investment Awards is a platform for investors and governments in Africa’s fast-growing infrastructure sectors to gauge and compare their performance and achievements. The 2014 Awards will showcase African public and private sector project innovations and the growing international competitiveness of African infrastructure as an investible asset class.
The highly sought-after Ai Infrastructure Investment Awards, now in their 7th year, formally recognise achievements across the main infrastructure sectors in Africa, and reward the institutions and personalities driving transactions and improving the continent’s infrastructure investment climate. See below for the full shortlist.
Commenting on the shortlist, Hubert Danso, CEO and Vice Chairman of Africa investor, said; “The past year has witnessed increased private sector participation and capital into African infrastructure projects and we are delighted to be able to recognise the best of these at the Ai Infrastructure Investment Awards and, in so doing, encourage all public and private sector infrastructure actors to promote their investment success stories, as a means to creating a global recognition of Africa’s infrastructure investment competitiveness and success stories.”
Awards will be presented in the following categories: Developer of the Year; Power Deal of the Year; Transport Deal of the Year; ICT/Telecoms Deal of the Year; Water Deal of the Year; Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year; Oil & Gas Deal of the Year; PPP Champion of the Year; Infrastructure Fund of the Year; Infrastructure Regulator of the Year; Sponsor of the Year; Bank Arranger of the Year; Legal Advisor of the Year; Advisor of the Year; Regional Infrastructure Investment Initiative of the Year, as well as a new category, Healthcare Investment of the Year.
To register to attend the Awards, contact Precious Nkandu on +27 11 783 2431, or
Infrastructure Investment Awards Shortlist 2014
Category 1 Developer of the Year
1 Bolloré Logistics Africa – Pemba Terminal Services 2 Alstom – Gibela Joint Venture
3 GE Africa – Power projects, Ghana and Tanzania
4 Bunengi Group – Kibali Gold Mine
5 Copperbelt Energy Corporation – Kudu Gas Project, Namibia
6 IFC InfraVentures – Mpeketoni Wind Project, Kenya
7 Citadel Capital – Suez Canal container transshipment service
8 IPS Kenya – Ruzizi Hydro Power Plant, Rwanda/Burundi/DRC
Category 2 Power Deal of the Year
1 Bureau of Public Enterprises Nigeria – Nigeria Electricity Privatisation Project
2 Rand Merchant Bank – Various
3 Fasken Martineau – IPP Peaking Power Projects
4 IFC InfraVentures/Electrawinds – Mpeketoni Wind Project, Kenya
5 Globeleq – South African Renewable Energy Projects
6 FBN Capital – Egbin Power Generation debt financing
7 Africa Finance Corporations – Kainji Hydroelectric Power Plant
8 US State Department – Power Africa initiative
Category 3 Transport Deal of the Year
1 Government of Kenya/China Road and Bridge Corporation – Kenya Railway Line
2 Tolaram Group – Lekki Deepsea Port
3 Grindrod/Northwest Rail Company – Chingola Railway, Zambia
4 Lobito Port Authority – Lobito Port Expansion Project, Angola
5 Rand Merchant Bank – Ghana Ports and Harbours Aut
6 Lonrho – Atuabo Port
7 ENSAfrica – ROMPCO Loop Line Expansion
8 Webber Wentzel – MyCiTi BRT system
Category 4 ICT/Telecoms Deal of the Year
1 Helios Towers – Vodacom partnership, Tanzania
2 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Ethiopia – Ethio ICT Park
3 FBN Capital – Debt facility for Emerging Markets Telecommunications Ltd
4 MainOne Cable Company – Data Centre, Lagos
5 Communications Commission of Kenya – Konza Technology City
6 Rand Merchant Bank – Various
7 Safaricom – E-waste management programme
8 Convergence Partners – Investment in 4Di Capital Fund 1
Category 5 Water Deal of the Year
1 Actis – Acquisition of Veolia Environnement, Morocco
2 African Water Facility – Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project
3 Kenya Government – Iten Water Supply Project
4 South African Government – Second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
5 Tanzania/AFD – Safe water and sanitation project, Tanzania
6 Governments of Uganda and DRC – Alwi Dry Corridor water project
7 Befesa Ghana – Desalination plant, Accra, Ghana
8 InfraCo – Chiansi Irrigation Scheme, Zambia
Category 6 Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year
1 Curro Holdings – Private Schools Expansion Programme
2 Rand Merchant Bank – African Steel Mills facility
3 Government of Zamfara State, Nigeria/Shelter Afrique – MoU for affordable housing
4 ENSAfrica – City of Tshwane Security of Revenue Project
5 Provincial Government of Cuando Cubango, Angola – School construction programme
6 National Housing Enterprise, Namibia/Calgro M3 – Otjomuise housing project, Namibia
7 Government of Angola – Calomboloca prison, Angola
8 Futuregrowth – Jika Silo Project
Category 7 Oil and Gas Deal of the Year
1 Shell Global – Gbaran-Ubie Phase Two project
2 FBN Capital – Accugas Limited pipeline project
3 Oando Energy Resources – Acquistion of ConocoPhillips in Nigeria
4 Tullow Oil/Total/CNOOC – Refinery and pipeline, Uganda
5 PetroSA/Sunbird Energy – Ibhubesi Gas Project
6 CNOOC – Lake Albert, Kingfisher Oilfield
7 Afren – Tanzania Oil and Gas Exploration Programme
8 SASOL – Inhassoro onshore crude oil field, Mozambique
Category 8 PPP Champion of the Year
1 AfDB Private Sector Division
2 PPIAF
3 Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
4 DFID
5 CADFund
6 Old Mutual
7 Bolloré Africa Logistics
8 East African Community (EAC)
Category 9 Infrastructure Fund of the Year
1 Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers – Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund
2 Futuregrowth – Futuregrowth Power Debt Fund
3 SANLAM – Saharan Real Estate Fund
4 Harith General Partners – Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund 2
5 AIIM – African Infrastructure Investment Fund 2 (AIIF2)
6 Old Mutual – IDEAS Managed Fund
7 Government of the People’s Republic of China – CADFund
8 Futuregrowth – Futuregrowth Infrastructure & Development Bond Fund
Category 10 Infrastructure Regulator of the Year
1 The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission
2 Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority, Tanzania
3 Energy Regulatory Commission, Kenya
4 Ministry of Health, South Africa
5 National Petroleum Institute, Mozambique
6 Kenya Ports Authority
7 Ethiopian Electric Agency
8 Office National de l’Electricité (ONE), Morocco
Category 11 Sponsor of the Year
1 Government of Zambia
2 Government of Kenya
3 Government of Senegal
4 Carlyle Group
5 Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy
6 Government of Namibia
7 Dangote Group
8 Bolloré Africa Logistics
Category 12 Bank Arranger of the Year
1 Société Générale
2 Nedbank Capital
3 UBA Capital
4 Ecobank
5 Standard Bank
6 HSBC
7 Access Bank 8 FBN Capital
Category 13 Legal Advisor of the Year
1 Herbert Smith Freehills
2 BBP Law
3 Fasken Martineau
4 Norton Rose
5 Clifford Chance
6 ENSAfrica
7 Webber Wentzel
8 DLA Piper
Category 14 Financial Advisor of the Year
1 JP Morgan
2 BNP Paribas
3 Citi
4 Emerging Capital Partners
5 Stanbic IBTC
6 Cresco Project Finance
7 Fieldstone
8 Standard Chartered Bank
Category 15 Regional Infrastructure Investment Initiative of the Year
1 DHL – Investment in air infrastructure, West Africa
2 PTA Bank – Various
3 Government of Botswana – National Rail Programme
4 DFID – DFID Africa Regional Programme
5 South African Development Community (SADC) – Regional Infrastructure Master Plan
6 COMESA – COMESA Infrastructure Fund 7 Kenya Ports Authority – Lamu Port, Ethiopia/Kenya/South Sudan
8 ECOWAS – Lagos-Abidjan Highway Project
Category 16 Healthcare Deal of the Year
1 MicroClinic Technologies – ZiDi mobile app, Kenya
2 European Union (T-REC) – DPDM Training Programme, Ghana and Zimbabwe
3 World Bank – Nigeria State Health Investment Project
4 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Vaccine development programmes, South Africa
5 Abraaj Group – Investment in Steripharma, Morocco
6 GE Africa – Privatised Hospitals, Abuja
7 BusaMed Holdings – Four new private hospitals, South Africa
8 Bidvest – Adcock Ingram acquisition
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