Razak Musah Baba
Raz joined the IPE editorial team in 2017 as news editor of IPE Real Assets. He has 15 years of experience as a financial journalist, having worked for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal where he worked as an equities reporter covering corporate news.
He later covered consumer finance and moved on to become a leisure reporter and helped manage the London corporate news and small-cap desk.
Aside from real estate and infrastructure, he enjoys discussing African traditional religion and historiography.
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- Email:
- razak.baba@ipe.com
- News
Saudi’s Hassana anchors TPG Rise Climate’s transition infrastructure fund
Hassana commits $1.5bn to TPG Rise Climate II and TPG Rise Climate Transition Infrastructure funds
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Vantage Data Centers EMEA to expand with €750m from Ares, CDPQ and Schroders
Ares and CDPQ provide up to €300m each, alongside a €150m contribution from Schroders
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Cromwell’s Polish retail property fund sells six malls to Star Capital for €285m
Deal marks Star Capital’s entry into Polish market
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Enfinity secures CPP Investments financing for renewables projects in India
Canadian investor provides $135m funding for 1.2GW projects
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Principal poaches MetLife’s Patel to lead new private infrastructure debt unit
New unit sits alongside public listed infrastructure, real estate debt and alternative credit investment strategies
- News
Ex-Patrizia directors start European value-add real estate investment firm
Paul Hampton, Charles-Nicolas Tarrière and Kevin Muscat launch Evonite
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Korean investors hire Revetas to manage €860m in overseas real estate
Revetas to provide ’capital structuring expertise, recovery solutions’ and investment strategies
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Tishman Speyer plans German data centre campus in European project debut
Tishman Speyer European Real Estate Venture IX buys site for data centre and urban logistics hub
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UK’s Environment Agency Pension commits to Schroders Greencoat’s renewables fund
Greencoat Renewable Income secures £170m from EAPF
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Patron raises €860m for distressed real estate investments in Europe
Patron Capital VII to opportunistically target distressed and undervalued investments, directly or indirectly related to property
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EQT makes SEK16bn offer for renewable energy platform OX2
Peas Industries, OX2’s founder and largest shareholder with around 45.56% stake has agreed to accept offer
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GLIL secures additional £475m in UK pension fund capital
Nest, Northern LGPS and Local Pensions Partnership Investments members commit to GLIL
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Fundraising for Brookfield’s $15bn opportunistic real estate fund passes halfway mark
Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners V raises $8bn in first close
- News
Landsec sells $400m UK hotel portfolio to Ares and EQ Group
Disposal is in line with Landsec’s strategy to ’release capital from sectors in which the company does not have scale’
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Ancala sells Dragon LNG stake to IFM, ADNOC and Vitol-owned VTTI
Shell will remain a 50% shareholder following the transaction
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HASI and KKR team up for $2bn US clean energy push
Duo join forces to initially invest up to $1bn via their newly created CarbonCount Holdings 1 partnership
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Arjun Infrastructure secures €1.4bn for core and core-plus strategy
Manager raises €1.1bn for Infrastructure Alliance Europe 2 and secures €300m to invest alongside the fund
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KKR to invest up to $1bn in US medical buildings venture with Healthcare Realty
Healthcare Realty contributes seed portfolio valued at $383m to the joint venture
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Swiss Institutional Consortium invest $400m in infrastructure alongside CDPQ
Consortium includes Retraites Populaires, CPEG, Centre Patronal, CPEF, PRESV and the Pension Fund of ICRC
- Special Reports
Canada’s IMCO positions itself for global real estate push
The manager of Ontario pension assets is evolving its real estate allocation to changing market dynamics. Razak Musah Baba speaks to Richard Varkey