Santiago, Chile, October 25 2018 – The Silverfern Group, an investment management firm making direct investments in middle market private equity, US CRE private debt and real estate globally, today announced that it has partnered with Arroyo Energy Investment Partners in the acquisition of certain wind and solar renewable power assets in Chile (the “Chilean Power Assets”).
The Chilean Power Assets include the El Arrayan Wind (“El Arrayan”) and Conejo Solar (“Conejo”) projects. El Arrayan is an operating 115 MW wind farm located in the Coquimbo region of Chile, and Conejo is an operating 104 MWac PV solar farm located in the Antofagasta region of Chile, both of which sell power to Chilean industrial customers under long term PPAs.
“We are excited to partner with Arroyo in the acquisition of two recently completed, strategically important renewable energy projects under long-term PPAs with an attractive, creditworthy counterparty in what we believe is a low-risk jurisdiction” said Silverfern Managing Director Edward Rimland. “At a time of perceived increases in investment return volatility, the opportunity to add potentially private equity-like returns via the acquisition of a lower-risk, strategically important infrastructure asset is attractive to us.”
Silverfern Managing Partner Clive Holmes added, “The Chilean Power Assets acquisition – our second partnership with Arroyo after our October 2016 acquisition of Broad River in North America together – further demonstrates Silverfern’s effectiveness as a local investor, as we continue to invest on a global basis. Continuing to deliver on our unique co-control investment strategy, Arroyo again represents an experienced, high-quality investment partner with significant domain expertise and experienced local representation through its operations in Santiago.”
About The Chilean Power Assets
The Chilean Power Assets include the El Arrayan Wind and Conejo Solar projects. El Arrayan is an operating 115 MW wind farm located in the Coquimbo region of Chile completed in 2014, and Conejo is an operating 104 MWac PV solar farm located in the Antofagasta region of Chile completed in 2016, both of which sell power to Chilean industrial customers under long term PPAs.
About Silverfern
Silverfern is a global middle-market, multi-asset class investment management firm, and invests on behalf of both major institutional investors and a global network of more than 65 of the world’s largest and most sophisticated multi-billion-dollar single family offices. Through its private equity offices in New York, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Sydney, and its real estate offices (in collaboration with 3650 REIT) in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Chicago and Newport Beach, Silverfern makes direct investments in middle market Private Equity, U.S. Commercial Real Estate Private Debt (Silver3TG), and Direct Real Estate. Silverfern’s investment strategy seeks to mitigate systemic risk in its portfolio by pursuing attractive risk-adjusted returns on a global basis, while at the same time seeking to manage local/market risk through its strategy to partner with qualified, local, investment partners on each of its investments. Additional information is available at www.silfern.com
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