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Cube Highways Trust has signed a right of first offer to acquire three assets from its sponsor company, Cube Highways and Infrastructure V Pte. Ltd, a senior official told Infralogic today. The assets were awarded in 2023 in the 11th and 14th rounds of a series of toll, operate, transfer (TOT) auctions by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Cube Highways Trust CEO Vinay Sekar said.

Looks for European deals to fill gaps, accelerate growth Power platforms, BESS projects and LNG assets on its radar Typically handles deals worth up to EUR 100m internally Integrated energy company MET Group is assessing “a good number” of acquisitions and expects to announce new deals within the next six to 12 months, Group Chief Strategy and M&A Officer Alexander Alting von Geusau said.

Blackstone today announced its infrastructure strategy for Asia Pacific with the appointment of Ami Momaya as a managing director to head the sector in India. Momaya started work today, a spokesperson told Infralogic. Most recently, she served as a managing director at KKR India. Infralogic reported Momaya’s departure from KKR in August last year.

Turkey sees 1H26 natural resource M&A at EUR 3bn Gas supply choke points shift investment interest Improved policy, combined with geography, drive Egyptian interest War in the Persian Gulf has caused a countercyclical spike in M&A activity around natural resources in some EMEA markets, sector advisors have noted. Total EMEA natural resources M&A has dipped in 1H26 to EUR 20.9bn compared to EUR 23bn in 1H25, with the GCC countries understandably banking their poorest first half since 2022.

NIIF Infrastructure Fund II targets INR 300bn corpus AustralianSuper’s total India exposure is AUD 2.8bn AustralianSuper today committed AUD 500m to India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), to be invested in NIIF’s second infrastructure fund, according to a statement and a source familiar. The pension fund’s investment follows an allocation of INR 300bn (USD 3.2bn) by the Indian government last week to the NIIF.

India’s central roads authority has reversed an earlier decision that risked cutting base toll rates for the country’s highway concessionaires by 3%-5%. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) rowed back on a September 2025 ruling over criteria used to calculate annual toll rate revisions, according to a circular released today.

Funding talks ongoing with lenders and investors for Bhutan data centre project SATO to use NVIDIA’s Rubin AI super-computing platform for the project Initial 5 MW phase, with remaining 95 MW planned by 2027-end Toronto-listed SATO Technologies Corporation is in talks with potential lenders as well as investors to tie up both equity and debt for a 100 MW data centre project in Bhutan, a senior official told Infralogic.

UK public interest review could extend deal timeline CMA likely hesitant to challenge DOJ-cleared deal Move may be tactic to unlock remedy negotiations The UK government’s signalled intervention in Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) could be intended to increase pressure on the parties in their ongoing negotiations with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), according to three competition lawyers.

Debt strategy raises capital for construction-stage energy transition assets Equity strategy becomes more selective, focusing on high-power price markets and flexible assets RGreen commits EUR 200m to Renalfa Power Clusters, explores opportunities in CEE and Italy RGreen Invest initially built its energy transition strategy largely around debt, before moving further into equity from around 2016 as renewables became more competitive and less exposed to subsidy risk.

Dubai-headquartered, BlackRock-backed decarbonisation platform Positive Zero is set to take over TotalEnergies’ distributed solar assets in the GCC, according to three sources familiar with the transaction. Positive Zero, which received a USD 400m investment from BlackRock’s infrastructure funds in December 2023, recently signed a bilateral agreement in Paris with TotalEnergies to acquire the assets, said the sources. They did not disclose the value of the assets being sold.