United Kingdom: Project Finance/PPP & PFI

Private infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest-growing asset classes, with nearly $1.8 trillion deployed across 10,000 transactions in five years. As institutional investors, family offices, and private debt funds converge on sectors from data centres to renewable energy, the market is experiencing unprecedented capital deployment alongside increasingly complex structuring requirements.

The infrastructure capital stack is undergoing significant transformation as equity markets consolidate at the top while creating mid-market opportunities, private debt emerges as a bankability indicator for maturing sectors, and fund finance structures become increasingly sophisticated. This evolution is reshaping how capital is deployed, structured, and exited across the infrastructure investment landscape...

The nuclear sector requires approximately $6 trillion in investment by 2050 to triple global capacity, yet capital deployment remains constrained despite technological advances and political support. This analysis examines why investor confidence hinges not on reactor innovation alone, but on regulatory certainty, risk allocation frameworks, and integrated project delivery models that can convert ambitious nuclear programmes into bankable infrastructure.

On 17 June 2025, the European Commission (the "Commission") published its proposed measures to revive the securitisation framework in the European Union ("EU"), with a view to making it simpler and more fit for purpose.

On 15 July 2025, HM Treasury published its response confirming it will no longer pursue a UK green taxonomy – a classification system to define which economic activities could be considered environmentally sustainable (the "UK Green Taxonomy").

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)¹ has, since becoming effective in March 2021, changed the approach to the establishment...

The Procurement Act 2023 received Royal Assent in October last year and the Cabinet Office is anticipating a "go-live" date for the new regime of October 2024.

How individual schools in multi-academy trusts (MATs) are funded presents leadership teams with a challenge.

In a world increasingly conscious of environmental sustainability, the use of BVI companies in green financing structures has emerged as a powerful force driving positive change.