Our Expertise
Developing, financing, operating, and maintaining the world’s most important infrastructure projects
We are infrastructure developers with broad experience in the development financing, operations, maintenance, and asset management of infrastructure projects. Our focus is to deliver projects for our clients that showcase the best of what the industry has to offer. From start to finish our goal is to always ensure safety, efficiency, environmental responsibility, and shared community contracting opportunities – all while delivering projects with a highly sustainable approach.
What We Do
Project Investment & Finance
We put our equity to work in public projects across the globe.
We commit considerable resources to help move projects forward. Our skilled team creates innovative project approaches that can help make the most difficult concepts become reality.
With experts in all phases of transportation project delivery – from overall management to traffic and revenue analysis, technical approaches, finance, contract/legal considerations, and long-term maintenance and operations – we provide unique solutions to all kinds of projects.
Key among our development approaches is assessing project-specific business cases, and developing commercial and financial structures that optimize key components to provide the highest value for money through a balanced risk approach.
We are proud to have participated in the development of some of the most remarkable and innovative infrastructure projects in the market, including:
- First P3 Availability Project in the US: I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements
- Largest Transit P3 in Canada: Eglinton Crosstown LRT
- First Bi-National P3 Between the US & Canada, and the Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge in North America: Gordie Howe International Bridge
- Two Biggest Federal P3 Projects in Canada: New Samuel de Champlain Bridge and Gordie Howe International Bridge
- First Automated People Mover P3: LAX APM
Project Investment & FinanceOur project finance approach includes using a vast array of financial instruments to fully optimize any financing structure. Our projects have utilized the full spectrum of financial structures, including private placements, long-term bank financings, broadly marketed long- and medium-term bonds, Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act loans, Project Bond Credit Enhancements, export credit agencies SACE (Italy) and ICO (Spain), and various hybrid structures.
Key financial structures include:
- Largest Transportation P3 Bond in Canadian History: $900 million refinancing for Montreal’s Autoroute 30
- Largest US Private Placement for a P3 Project, in excess of $800 million: refinancing of I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements
- First Bank/Unrated Private Placement Hybrid Transaction for a Transportation Project: Confederation Line
- First Bank/PABs Hybrid Transaction: LAX APM
- First P3 Deal Marketed both in the US and Canadian Market: CAD$227 million refinancing of South Fraser Perimeter Road Project in 2015
ACS Infra provides a team of specialists with a whole life view of project development, as well as advanced skills in the day-to-day operations and maintenance of projects. Starting all projects with the end in mind, our team focuses on optimizing design and construction elements to eliminate operations and maintenance challenges after a project is complete.
We are focused on meeting or exceeding operational performance requirements through cost effective project-specific approaches that always put the asset user and the project owner in the forefront of our efforts. Minimization of asset disruption is key to our performance approach.
ACS Infra takes a leading role in the long-term operations and maintenance of its infrastructure assets. As part of our commitment to excellence and accountability, we partner with international infrastructure operators and technology providers to deliver best-in-class and project-specific operation and maintenance services to infrastructure users and owners.
We actively pursue value creation in the financial management of our portfolio of concessions. This can include refinancings, corporate and equity loans, and treasury management. We further achieve growth of our portfolio and optimize value for our shareholders through sales and acquisition of assets.
ACS Infra’s proven track-record in M&A and value creation is well recognized in the industry, and its know-how plays a pivotal role in managing the ACS Group’s €16.5 billion investment in Abertis, one of the leading toll road operators in the world.
Key transactions include:
- Partial & Total Sales of Equity Participation in the Portfolio in the US: I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements in Miami, Florida with an enterprise value of $1.06 billion.
- Partial & Total Sales of Equity Participation in the Portfolio in Canda: Autoroute 30, Right Honourable Herb Gray Parkway (Windsor-Essex Parkway), South Fraser Perimeter Road, and Northeast Anthony Henday, with an aggregate enterprise value of CAD$2.152 billion.
- Abertis’ First Acquisition in the US: Elizabeth River Crossings in Virginia, with enterprise value of €2 billion.
Deals in the Americas
Into New Business
Sectors
ACS Infra’s global expertise spans multiple sectors of the infrastructure industry. From signature bridges that have become community icons, to new roadways, railways, and intermodal centers that connect people and businesses, to facilities that house state-of-the-art medical centers – ACS Infra does it all.
