Power & infrastructure finance

With 20 years of experience in North America and first-hand knowledge of power and infrastructure, we’ll help you to find the best financing strategy for your needs. We can structure, arrange, underwrite and distribute transactions for power developers, infrastructure funds, private and listed corporates, or institutional investors.

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Our approach to power and infrastructure

Highly adept

Because we’re specialists in your sector, we understand the unique structural, regulatory, market and financing requirements you have.

Globally informed

With experts in New York, London and Johannesburg, you’ll benefit from our best ideas globally.

Distinctly creative

We take a holistic view of your business challenges, and we’re not afraid to be bold and innovative in our strategic approach.

Our offering

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Debt and specialist lending

Tap into a full range of financing options, including balance sheet lending, public and private sources of equity, and bank or institutional debt funding.

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Advisory

Leverage the decades of industry knowledge our experts have to gain a fresh perspective any transaction.

Expertise in financing...

  • Conventional Power

  • Renewable Power

  • Midstream Oil & Gas

  • Construction & Term Lending

  • Leveraged Finance

  • Acquisition Finance

  • Capital Markets and Syndication

  • Bid Support

  • Transportation Infrastructure

  • Digital Infrastructure

  • 'Core-Plus' Infrastructure

Meet our team of specialists

Get to know our North American team with decades of experience financing power and infrastructure projects. 

Our deals

In North America, we have arranged and syndicated more than US$11bn of financing in the past 3 years.

Our community

At Investec, we are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to communities around us.

Our ESG-led financing philosophy

We keep earning our stripes

Conventional power lead arranger of the year

Conventional Power Lead Arranger of the Year

Power Finance & Risk 18th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards

Ralph Cho, Investec

Project Finance Banker of the Year – Ralph Cho, Investec

Power Finance & Risk 18th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards

Market insights

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2022 lending market outlook podcast

Ralph Cho, our Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure Finance, spoke on Norton Rose Fulbright’s Cost of Capital podcast where he discussed the outlook for the 2022 lending market.

Recent announcements

March 23, 2022
January 05, 2022
November 12, 2021
November 10, 2021
April 21, 2021
April 15, 2021
March 23, 2021
March 4, 2021
January 21, 2021
January 12-13, 2021

March 23, 2022

Panel: Waves of Capital: Investor Appetite for Storage - Energy Storage Summit USA

Michael Pantelogianis is attending Energy Storage USA on 23rd March where he'll be on the ‘Waves of Capital: Investor Appetite for Storage’ panel

 

January 05, 2022

Investec strengthens PIF team with further appointment

Power & Infrastructure Finance (“PIF”) at Investec Bank Plc (“Investec”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Antonio Cravo to its team in London.

November 12, 2021

Investec’s UK PIF team advises Low Carbon on its private capital raising

Investec’s UK Power and Infrastructure Finance team (“Investec”) acted as sole financial adviser to Low Carbon on a substantial private capital raising to fund its proprietary international renewable energy pipeline.

November 10, 2021

Financing Wind North America

Michael Pantelogianis spoke at Financing Wind North America 2021 about the state of affairs in North American wind energy.

April 21, 2021

ABA Business Law Virtual Spring Meeting

Ralph Cho, Co-head of Investec Power and Infrastructure UK and US will be speaking at the ABA Business Law Virtual Spring Meeting discussing what ‘What M&A Lawyers Need to Know About Buying and Selling Projects’. 

April 15, 2021

Energy Impact

Ralph Cho join the Energy Impact Podcast.

March 23, 2021

Energy Storage Summit

Michael Pantelogianis, Co-head of Investec Power and Infrastructure UK & US will be speaking at a panel on at the Energy Storage Summit on 23 March.

March 4, 2021

Looking to the Future of Finance

Fred Petit, Senior Banker at Investec Power & Infrastructure North America spoke at a panel on what is shaping power purchase agreements and where lenders are seeing value for opportunities.

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January 21, 2021

Cost of Capital

Ralph Cho, Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure North America, spoke at a panel held by Norton Rose Fullbright looking at the Cost of Capital, and the outlook in 2021. 

January 12-13, 2021

Infocast Projects & Money conference

Ralph Cho, Co-Head of Power & Infrastructure North America, presented at the Infocast Projects & Money conference, providing an overview of the project finance markets in 2020 and the key themes of this unprecedented year.