I N F R A R E N

infrastructure freight real estate renewables

About

Overview

Infraren offers a range of consultancy and brokerage services. The key areas of focus for the firm include business consultancy services for the infrastructure, real estate, renewables sectors and freight brokerage services for dry cargo and liquids.

Team Experience

The team has a combined experience and track record of over 100 years and is comprised of professionals who have previously held senior positions and worked in large multinational firms such as Kleinwort Benson, Gerald Metals, Alcan, UBS, Erinaceous Group plc, Lightsource, Vodafone, Amber Infrastructure and JP Morgan.

Sectors & Services

Infrastructure

Opportunity identification and viability analysis
Market study
Market entry strategy
Land acquisition / JV with land owner
Negotiating PFI contract with relevant government agency
Planning approvals
Architecture and design
Negotiating construction contract
Debt and equity funding
Construction project management
Post PC leasing management / opex management

Freight

Identification of optimum vessel size
Source most economical freight based on route and time
Organise storage of material at load port
Manage inspection, assay certification and loading
Reduce demurrage at load port
Organise crew and freight for charter management
Service at unload port – unloading and storage if required
Reduce demurrage during laycan period
Marine cargo and hull insurance management including claims processing

Real Estate

Opportunity identification and viability analysis
Market study
Market entry strategy
Land acquisition / JV with land owner
Negotiating contract with local authority if applicable
Planning approvals
Architecture and design
Negotiating construction contract
Debt and equity funding
Construction project management
Post PC leasing / sales management / opex management

Renewables

Opportunity identification and viability analysis
Market study
Market entry strategy
Land acquisition / JV with land owner
Finalising the power purchase agreement with relevant government agency/PSU
Planning approvals
Architecture and design
Negotiating construction contract
Debt and equity funding
Construction project management
Post PC leasing management / opex management

Case Studies

Managed the land acquisition, planning, design, and construction of 5 workforce housing projects comprising of 3,000-4,000 units of housing each. Each project was executed at the pithead of coal mines where a power plant was being set up.

Part of the mandate was to create a gated community for several thousand families which would include physical infrastructure like sewage, roads, water supply, electricity, and telephony. These communities also had social infrastructure like parks, community centres, healthcare facilities and essential retail components. The total time over which these projects were executed was approximately 10 years.

The team created a JV with a UK FTSE 250 plc to do the property management of 350,000 units of property. The project lasted 10 years and involved the following:

Rationalisation of the IT system of several different companies the plc had purchased
Optimising the processes to reduce processing cost by headcount reduction
Direct cost reduction through labour cost arbitrage by offshoring 600 of the 2,000 of back office FTEs
Centralised purchase and procurement processes to achieve standardised costs and cost reduction through economies of scale
The overall result was a substantial improvement to the bottom line which cause improvement in share price

Joint venture with Lightsource, the UK’s largest solar energy developer and owner. The Infraren team set up a joint venture with Lightsource to win 25 year power purchase agreements (PPAs) through a competitive bidding process from government agencies.

This involved opportunity identification, land acquisition, sourcing of panels and equipment from China, bid preparation and negotiation, sourcing of funding from infrastructure institutions, project management and operations management. Lightsource is now a part of British Petroleum group.

The team organised equity from a £15 billion UK infrastructure fund to invest into UK PFI projects for constructing schools and hospitals which were preleased to Local Authorities and the NHS.

The project was nationwide and involved negotiating 25 year UK FRI leases with government agencies organising debt and equity funding, negotiating a fixed price contract with a large plc contractor for construction, negotiate the maintenance contract with a global property management firm.

The team was tasked with rationalising the transport procurement for a major commodity company. The objective of the project was to rationalise and reduce freight costs through an active system of utilising empty leg cargos and utilising the inefficiencies of dry and liquid cargo markets on account of fluctuations in the commodity markets.

This resulted in mapping and creation of a database of vessels, cargo tonnages, commodity movements, loading and unloading port data, marine insurance market, and also commodity trade finance. This ongoing project duration was over 10 years.

Contact

20-22 Wenlock Road

London N1 7GU

info@infraren.com

If you are interested in any of our services kindly let us have your enquiry and one of our senior industry partners will be in touch to discuss your project and make a bespoke proposal to meet your requirements