USS to Buy 11% Stake in Thames Water
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
The UK’s largest pension fund has agreed to take a nearly 11% stake in Thames Water, the country’s largest water services provider.
The £50.3bn (€56.3bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is set to buy 10.94% of Kemble Water Holdings, Thames Water’s parent company, becoming the group’s third-largest shareholder.
USS is to purchase the stake from Australian pension fund QSuper and Canadian investors Alberta Investment Management Corporation and OPTrust, according to a statement published today. Other existing investors in Kemble include Dutch pension schemes ABP and PFZW.
Michael Powell, head of the private markets group at USS Investment Management, described Thames Water as “a strategically important UK asset”.
The transaction is due to close later this year, the statement said.
Thames Water is the UK’s largest regulated water utility company. It serves more than 15m people across London and the south-east of England, and is responsible for the operation and upkeep of more than 109,000km of sewers and 31,500km of water mains.
Read more: IPE Real Estate
Media
Taxonomy
- Utility Provider
- Water Supply
- Business Strategy
- Water Supply
- Infrastructure
- Utility Management
- Investments
- Infrastructure
- Mergers & Acquisition