A report in yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper say that Corsair Capital and Deutsche Bank, two major shareholders in Kelda Group, owners of Yorkshire Water, are getting ready to sell their stakes.
With a 30.32% stake private equity fund Corsair Capital is Kelda’s largest shareholder. Corsair Infrastructure Management manages Gateway Infrastructure Investments, a $2.9 billion global infrastructure fund originally established in 2007 by Citigroup. In 2007 and 2008, Gateway Infrastructure Investments led a consortium to take Kelda private.
Deutsche Asset Management is the manager of the Pan-European Infrastructure Fund L.P.'s 23.37% stake in Yorkshire Water’s parent company.
The other shareholders are Singapore GIC Special Investments, the private equity investment arm of GIC (previously known as the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd) which holds a 33.56% share, while Australian New South Wales public sector SAS Trustee Corporation has a 12.75% stake.
According to the Sunday Times, the deal could potentially be worth more than £4 billion.
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