Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP

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Introduction

Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP (the “Fund”) is a fund targeting infrastructure investment opportunities globally. The Fund achieved its final close in 2019, securing USD460 million of commitment. The Fund is managed by indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of China Everbright Limited.

Investment Strategy

The Fund primarily invests in equity and equity-linked securities of companies or projects located in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific areas. Investment opportunities in other areas such as South America and Middle-East areas may also be considered.

The Fund targets to invest between USD50 million and USD200 million for a single investment. Investment targets should have excellent management team, good operating track record and strong recurrent cash flows so that investors in the Fund can enjoy both a satisfactory cash yield and long-term capital appreciation.

The target industries include, without limitation, roads (including toll roads, bridges and tunnels), transport terminals (including airport terminals and related facilities), railway stations and similar, sea and shipping ports, communication towers, water distribution networks, wastewater networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities, power generation facilities, power transmission and distribution networks, oil and gas storage facilities, oil and gas distribution networks, etc.

Portfolio Companies

The Fund completed the disposal of 100% equity of the concessionaire - Tirana International Airport SHPK in December 2020. This is the first infrastructure investment exit of China Everbright Limited along the “Belt and Road” countries, and it brings a double-digit equity IRR to the fund investors. The Fund has 4 assets under management across Europe, China and Southeast Asia.

Tirana International Airport

The Fund owns 100% of the concession right to operate the Tirana International Airport, which is the only international civil airport in Albania.

The country has a population of 2.9 million and land area of 28,000 square kilometres. It has a democratic electoral regime, and is a member of the NATO as well as a candidate member of EU. A majority of law and policies are in compliance with EU standard, and it has a vetting process of all judges and prosecutors to be monitored by EU.

Since the Fund invested, the airport has opened new routes to Amsterdam and Budapest. The airport served 20 destinations and achieved 2.6 million passengers in 2017. The management expect the number of passengers to increase by 11.5% in 2018.

The passengers are mostly locals who work overseas and travel home to visit family and friends, which provides a very stable passenger flow. Albania also has a high potential to develop international business, tourism and logistics in the future. Albania’s among the 21 Best Places to Visit in 2018 according to National Geographic Travel. It is on its list of the 10 best holiday destinations in Europe by Lonely Planet.

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Village Telephone Limited

The sole provider of last mile optical fiber network for 600 villages in New Territories.

The company is currently raising a new round of funding with aim to expand the network to other areas in New Territories, and the ultimate goal to cover the entire urban areas in Hong Kong as well.

According to the statistics from Planning Department, the population in New Territories will increase from 3.78m in 2014 to 4.27m in 2024, circa 54.6% of total population, creating an increasing demand for high-speed internet services. 

The Hong Kong government expects the 5G services to roll out as early as April 2019. The upcoming 5G has let to inflated valuation of telecommunication companies. As the fundamental component of 5G deployment, optic fibre is critical to making Hong Kong a smart city and laying the groundwork for IoT.

The Fund expects the company to be listed in Hong Kong in 2020. 

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BOREAL

The major business of the company is underlined by transport services contracts covering ferries, buses, and light rails with the Public Transport Administrators, which generally have a concession period of 8 to 10 years with an option to extend by up to 2 years. Revenue from these contracts depends not on patronage but service coverage, adjusted regularly based on inflation, labour wage and fuel cost fluctuations, hence unaffected by traffic volume or inflation.

The company has been continuing improving its operational efficiency and optimising its contract portfolio with EBITDA margin increasing from 10.4% in 2015 to 23.1% in 2017. There is a sizable ferry contract which will take effect from 2020, hence the EBITDA in 2020 is expected to be 50% higher than 2017.

The company is in the process of deploying electric ferries, and in development of fuel cell as its ferries’ power source, which both involves cutting-edge technology not deployed elsewhere in the world yet.

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  • Richard Hu

    Managing Director

    Mr. Hu is Managing Director of the Overseas Infrastructure Fund Department, China Everbright Limited (CEL) and sits on the Investment Committee of Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP. He possesses over 20 years’ of investment experience. He served as Assistant General Manager of the investment management department of China Everbright Group (Hong Kong), Investment Committee member of Citicorp Everbright China Fund.  He was responsible for managing China Everbright Group (Hong Kong) ‘s overseas investment assets between 1998 and 2006. Prior joining the Fund, Mr. Hu was the General Manager of the Strategic Investment Department of the China Travel International Investment (H.K.) Limited (CTII) and a deputy general manager of CTII’s subsidiary in China, responsible for CTII’s cross border investment, corporate strategy, performance management and corporate governance.
    Mr. Hu Holds a bachelor degree in Business Management in Guangzhou Zhongshan University and an MBA from Baylor University of US. He is a member of CFA and a member of ACCA.

  • Kelvin Poon

    Executive Director

    Mr. Poon is Executive Director of the Overseas Infrastructure Fund Department, China Everbright Limited and sits on the Investment Committee of Everbright Overseas Infrastructure Investment Fund LP. He possesses more than 15 years’ of investment experience. Prior joining the fund he was a Senior Vice President at Macquarie Everbright Greater China Infrastructure Fund, responsible for Investment, Asset Management, Fund Raising and participated in the Investment Committee. He was also the IC Observer for Everbright Ashmore Real Estate USD Fund. In 2004, Mr. Poon joined Lehman Brothers and worked at the Tokyo and HK office of the Global Real Estate Department. Later, he served as Vice President in Nomura International, in charge of the underwriting business for the mezzanine syndication related to the infrastructure industry across Asia-Pacific region. Kelvin also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

    Mr. Poon graduated from the Macquarie University, major in Finance and minor in Actuary. He is a charter holder of Australia CPA and HKICPA in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Mr. Poon also received a Diploma in Civil Law awarded by Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University in 2003.

  • James Cheng

    Investment Vice President

    Mr. Cheng is the Investment Vice President of the Overseas Infrastructure Fund Department, China Everbright Limited. He possesses more than 12 years’ experience in assessment of investments. Prior to joining the team, he worked in Singapore office of Platinum Equity, a leveraged buyout fund specializing in operational improvements of businesses, covering investment opportunities in Asia focusing on Greater China. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cheng advised potential corporate and institutional investors on investment opportunities during his spell in KPMG Hong Kong and New York, with his latest position as associate director in deal advisory team in Hong Kong.

    Mr. Cheng graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong majoring in Economics, and is a CPA in the US and Hong Kong, as well as a CFA charter holder.

  • Derek Chen

    Vice President

    Derek Chen possesses more than 8 years’ project investment and investment management experience. Prior to joining the team, he was the secretary for Management Decision Committee and Investment Decision Committee of China Everbright Limited. He also served China Everbright Environment as a senior investment manager responsible for environmental and new energy projects’ investment in China and Southeast Asia markets.

    Mr. Chen holds a Ph.D. Degree in Management from Renmin University of China. Besides, he was a visiting scholar of London School of Economics and Max Planck Society.

  • Yifan Xu

    Senior Associate

    Mr. Xu is Associate of the Overseas Infrastructure Fund Department, China Everbright Limited. Before joining Everbright, Mr. Xu was working in a family office based in Hong Kong, responsible for private equity and venture capital fund investments, direct investment in early-stage TMT companies as well as advising Asian institutions in acquiring overseas real assets.

    Mr. Xu graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, major in Insurance, Financial and Actuarial Analysis, and is a charter holder of FRM.

  • Stella Ma

    Associate

    Stella Ma possesses more than 5 years’ experience in investment feasibility advisory and transaction services. Prior to joining the team, Stella worked with Deloitte Southeast Asia, specializing in real estate and infrastructure advisory. She also served as a member of Deloitte Chinese Service Group, providing services to Chinese clients across Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia.

    Ms. Ma holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Economics from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and MBA from the University of Hong Kong.

Overseas Infrastructure Fund

Tel (852) 2860 1105
Fax (852) 2529 0177
Email Richard.Hu@everbright.com
Address 40/F, Far East Finance Centre, 16 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong