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A Leading Infrastructure Investor

OUR MISSION

GIP aims to deliver attractive returns by investing in infrastructure assets that empower economies and societies across the globe. Our strategy is driven by an extensive global network of relationships, a disciplined investment approach, and comprehensive operational expertise that focuses on improving businesses for the long-term.

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WHAT WE DO

We are a leading infrastructure investor that specializes in investing in, owning and operating some of the largest and most complex assets across the energy, transport, digital infrastructure and water and waste management sectors. With decarbonization, an important part of our investment thesis, we believe we are well positioned to support the global energy transition.

Our Ambition

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Our Ambition

We aspire to be best-in-class investors and a capable owner of assets. Our priority is to be a responsible custodian of capital for our investors for whom we aim to generate attractive returns by making disciplined, impactful, and innovative investments.

We identify opportunities to unlock value through our specialist focus on infrastructure, extensive origination networks, rigorous investment process, and commitment to being the premier owners and operator of assets.

Global Equity Funds

Our infrastructure equity funds have been the cornerstone of GIP’s business since our founding in 2006.

Our global equity funds apply the Firm’s tried and tested approach to investing in core and core-plus infrastructure opportunities, predominantly in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) countries.

Our infrastructure equity funds focus on:

  • Energy, Transport, Digital, and Water / Waste infrastructure sectors;
  • Proprietary, proactive and selective deal origination;
  • Large-scale, complex transactions for which there is limited competition;
  • Ability to form strategic joint ventures with leading industrial partners;
  • Control-oriented investments;
  • High-quality businesses and assets with potential for outperformance through growth, operational value add and de-risking; and
  • Well-timed and disciplined entries and strategic exits.
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Specialized Equity

The GIP Australia (“GIPA”) investment platform seeks to provide investors with access to high quality, larger scale, Australian infrastructure investment opportunities via transactions executed and managed by GIP. GIPA combines GIP’s global and local investment, operational, and management capabilities with an AUD-denominated, flexible investment platform.

We believe our Emerging Markets team possesses the deep insights and knowledge, specialized investment expertise and extensive local experience and networks crucial to investing in these markets. We seek to provide investors with a differentiated investment opportunity to access the emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. GIP Emerging Markets employs the same strategy as GIP’s global equity funds, focused on the energy, transport, digital infrastructure and water and waste management, sectors.

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Specialized Equity

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The GIP Australia (“GIPA”) investment platform seeks to provide investors with access to high quality, larger scale, Australian infrastructure investment opportunities via transactions executed and managed by GIP. GIPA combines GIP’s global and local investment, operational, and management capabilities with an AUD-denominated, flexible investment platform.

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We believe our Emerging Markets team possesses the deep insights and knowledge, specialized investment expertise and extensive local experience and networks crucial to investing in these markets. We seek to provide investors with a differentiated investment opportunity to access the emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. GIP Emerging Markets employs the same strategy as GIP’s global equity funds, focused on the energy, transport, digital infrastructure and water and waste management, sectors.

Credit

GIP Credit makes non-common equity investments, with the ability to transact across multiple entry points in the capital structure. Our strategy focuses on the Energy, Transport, Digital Infrastructure and Water and Waste management sectors, along with other industries or projects with infrastructure characteristics.

GIP Credit leverages the broader GIP platform, creating a symbiotic relationship to source, diligence and structure bilaterally originated credit opportunities where we can act as the sole, lead or anchor investor.

GIP Credit is fully integrated into the broader GIP platform, offering what we believe is a differentiated private infrastructure credit strategy, incorporating extensive origination capabilities and GIP’s value-add industry expertise and business improvement capabilities to enhance investment decisions and portfolio management practices across the investment lifecycle.

Our team targets infrastructure credit investments with attractive risk-adjusted returns and appropriate downside protection. GIP Credit often provides custom tailored financing solutions across a breadth of capital needs, including greenfield and brownfield projects, acquisition finance, liquidity and growth, restructuring and secondary purchases.

GIP Values and Culture

GIP Values and Culture

Global Infrastructure Partners’ culture is defined by excellence, innovation, integrity and collaboration. The firm was built by experienced operators and investors who applied their expertise to help develop the infrastructure of the future while seeking to build and improve surrounding communities. GIP’s success is based on giving a voice to every member of the team and encouraging them to be themselves and to achieve the best results through collaboration.

GIP in numbers

Management

$ 115bn

Managed by GIP on behalf of its global investor base.

Annual revenue

$ 71bn

Combined annual revenues of companies
in GIP’s equity portfolios.

Employment

116,000

Employed by the companies in GIP’s
equity portfolios.

Note: As of October 1, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), Global Infrastructure Management, LLC (together with its affiliates, “GIP”) was acquired by and became a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”), with legacy GIP management continuing to lead GIP. This website reflects the legacy GIP business prior to the Closing Date, and has not yet been updated to reflect the acquisition. Additional information is available at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.

About GIP

About GIP

We seek to deploy our core competencies to allow us to originate best-in-class investment opportunities, employ best practice operating management skills, and effectively manage stakeholder relationships at all levels with the goal of generating attractive risk adjusted returns for our investors while also delivering value to the communities within which we operate and the businesses we own.

Our Strategy

Our proprietary origination networks and deep relationships across key sectors help us identify premier assets and build successful joint-ventures with best-in-class strategic corporate partners and other leading investment firms. We leverage in-depth analysis and comprehensive operational expertise in proprietary origination, seeking to produce consistent and attractive returns across equity, and debt investment strategies. Our Business Improvement Team brings extensive industrial expertise and sector experience to help maximize the operational efficiency and performance of our portfolio assets.

Industry Focus

Since inception, the GIP Funds have employed an industry-focused investment approach, targeting infrastructure businesses and assets in the energy, transportation, digital, and water and waste sectors, where we believe our Partners’ decades of experience and relationships provide a competitive advantage.

We believe this targeted approach, focusing our investment strategy to concentrate resources on originating investments in specific industry subsectors that complement the team’s experience, positions us well to source proprietary investment opportunities. We believe our industry focus facilitates differentiated origination and value creation during our investment holding period and these elements combine to provide greater potential to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns to investors.

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Energy

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Digital

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Transportation

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Water & Waste

Proprietary Origination

GIP has developed a world class reputation as a firm that is able to work successfully with large industrial partners.

Thus, we are often able to access transactions that are not typically available to other financial investors or investors unable to commit substantial equity to individual opportunities. We believe competition for the types of transactions GIP targets is often limited for several key reasons, including: (i) these transactions are usually complicated; (ii) they typically require very substantial equity commitments; and (iii) given the importance of the asset to the industrial partner, it is critical to have a partner with a strong track record of similar partnerships and who is able to deliver value to the asset and form a productive partnership.

Moreover, we believe GIP’s in-depth knowledge of, and extensive relationships in, the industry sectors we focus on are critical to our ability to originate proprietary transactions. This knowledge provides insights into the trends and developments that create investment opportunities and motivate potential sellers and joint venture partners. In addition, our relationships with significant industry participants, together with our track record of adding value to our portfolio companies and our ability to deploy significant amounts of capital, have often made GIP a preferred partner or owner of strategic infrastructure assets. Almost all of our equity fund investments to date have been proprietary to GIP or involved situations in which GIP had a compelling advantage.

In addition, focusing on larger transactions allows us to concentrate the efforts of our Business Improvement Team on a smaller number of portfolio companies, thereby realizing scale benefits from any resulting performance improvements.

Business Improvement: A Dedicated Operational Capability

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Business Improvement: A Dedicated Operational Capability

Operational value creation is central to GIP’s approach to investing.

GIP has a dedicated team that seeks to apply a best-in-class industrial toolkit to improve the performance of our portfolio companies. GIP’s Business Improvement Team consists of 38 professionals who have, on average, 30 years of industry experience. These individuals bring a wealth of knowledge, hands-on expertise and industrial best practices to GIP’s portfolio companies, helping to drive operational improvements.

A Dedicated Operational Capability

GIP’s operational value creation is focused on several key areas in which GIP’s Business Improvement Team has been successful in driving substantial improvements that have significantly enhanced both the financial performance and overall value of the portfolio companies. One of our key objectives is to embed improvements in portfolio companies that will endure long after our ownership ends. This is accomplished through the training and development of people throughout the organization. By focusing on the application of best practice operations and processes, we seek to build sustainable management processes.

GIP’s Business Improvement Team focuses on value creation at multiple levels, including:

  • Customer Service
  • Growth
  • Efficiency
  • Cash Management

These operations specialists use tools and best practices, such as:

  • Cycle time reduction
  • Service span improvement
  • Capacity de-bottlenecking
  • Kaizen
  • Six Sigma

The application of these proven management techniques can improve efficiency, performance, customer satisfaction and revenues. Additionally, this focus on operational improvements has potential to offer better downside protection of the assets and improves cash generation in economic downturns.

Case Studies

Gatwick Airport

Gatwick Airport

Since it acquired a majority stake in 2009, Global Infrastructure Partners increased the capacity at Gatwick Airport in the UK from 32.4 million passengers per year to 46.6 million passengers per year (pre-COVID).

GIP transformed the way the airport operates in order to improve the travel experience for passengers. GIP focused on operational improvements, including to the transit to and from the airport, reducing the time spent in lines and ultimately generating a meaningful increase in the number of plane movements per hour.

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is a strategically important sector for Global Infrastructure Partners. GIP has built a substantial renewables platform over the past 15 years that includes three significant companies spanning the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, powerful examples of the firm’s commitment to the energy transition. In the U.S., GIP helped Clearway scale from 5,000 MW of green power in 2018 to over 30,000 today. In Asia, GIP integrated separate companies into Vena, connecting a new solar asset every six weeks from 2018 through 2024. In Latin America, GIP helped Atlas add 1.3GW of new capacity, and has plans to build 6GW more.

Energy transition


As one of the world’s leading sponsors of renewables development, GIP is committed to facilitating the global energy transition. We have a team focused on decarbonization investment opportunities across our targeted sectors.

Our strategy