WestConnex Acquisition & Valuation

NorthWestern Roads Group is an infrastructure operator responsible for the maintenance and operation of the NorthConnex tunnel and Westlink M7 motorway.

While Ventia is not the largest player with an estimated sub 10% share of addressable markets, it is nonetheless a leading infrastructure maintenance services provider in Australia and New Zealand. Its capabilities span the full asset lifecycle including operations and maintenance, facilities management, minor capital works, environmental services, and other solutions. And its business model is favorably capital-light via flexing of a large contractor base complementing a deep pool of talented employees. Ventia has long-term relationships with a diverse range of public and private sector clients with many client relationships maintained for decades. Contracts are favorably long with an average five-year duration at inception and most containing some form of embedded price escalation.

Shenzhen Expressway Corp Ltd is a Company engaged in the construction, operation, management, and investment of toll highways and environmental protection in China. Environmental protection mainly includes recycling and treating solid waste and clean energy power generation. The group has identified two reporting segments, namely the toll road segment and the environmental protection segment. The toll road segment takes charge of the operation and management of toll roads in Mainland China. The environmental protection segment operates and manages environmentally related infrastructure, mainly including solid waste treatment, clean energy, and other related fields. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Toll segment.

Hill & Smith PLC creates sustainable infrastructure and safe transport through innovation. It is organized into three main business divisions. Galvanizing Services increase the sustainability and maintenance-free life of steel products including structural steelwork, lighting, bridges, agricultural and other products for the industrial and infrastructure markets. Engineered Solutions supplies engineered steel and composite solutions for a wide range of infrastructure markets including energy generation and distribution, marine, rail, and housing. Roads & Security division supplies products and services to support road and highway infrastructure including temporary and permanent road safety barriers, renewable energy lighting and power solutions, and Intelligent Traffic Solutions.

Primoris Services Corp is a provider of critical infrastructure services operating mainly in the United States and Canada. The company provides a range of construction, maintenance, replacement, and engineering services. The Utilities segment operates throughout the United States and specializes in a range of services, including the construction and maintenance of new and existing natural gas and electric utility distribution and transmission systems, and communications systems. The Energy segment operates throughout the United States and Canada and specializes in a range of services that include engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services to various industries. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Energy segment.

Elecnor SA is a Spanish engineering and construction company. The company organizes itself into two segments: Services and Projects business, and Concessions business. It generates the vast majority of revenue from the Services and Projects business segment. It generates electricity, operates power lines and substations, provides gas pipeline services, provides services for railways, develops telecommunications infrastructure, and constructs and maintains other infrastructure projects. The company derives majority of its revenue Internationally.

Infraestrctura Visble Sa De through its subsidiary engaged in the infrastructure sector. It's engaged in the construction, operation, maintenance, financing, and promotion of toll roads and port projects, as well as the production of asphalt mixes.

Atlas Arteria is a global toll-road investor created out of the reorganization of Macquarie Infrastructure Group in 2010. The firm's main asset is a 30.82% stake in Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, or APRR. APRR owns concessions to toll more than 2,300 kilometers of motorways in eastern France, most ending late 2035. The firm also wholly owns the Dulles Greenway and 66.67% of the Chicago Skyway, both in the US.

Guangdong Provincial Expressway Development Co Ltd is principally engaged in the development and operation of expressways and large bridges. It is involved in tolling and maintenance of Guangfo Expressway, Fokai Expressway, Jiujiang Bridge, Huiyan Expressway, Maozhan Expressway, Jiangzhong Expressway, Kangda Expressway and Gankang Expressway.

Anhui Expressway Co Ltd is engaged in the investment, construction, operation, and management of toll roads within Anhui province. The company acquires operating expressway assets through various means such as investment and construction, acquisition, or cooperative operation. The company provides toll service for vehicles, collects vehicles' tolls according to the charging standard, maintains repairs, and carries out safety maintenance for the operating expressways. All of the company's external revenue is derived from customers based in Mainland China.

Construction Partners Inc operates as a civil infrastructure company. It specializes in the construction and maintenance of roadways. The company through its subsidiaries, provides various products and services to both public and private infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on highways, roads, bridges, airports, and commercial and residential developments. Its operations consist of manufacturing and distributing hot mix asphalt, paving activities, including the construction of roadway base layers and application of asphalt pavement, site development, including the installation of utility and drainage systems, and others. The company has a single segment which predominantly consists of infrastructure and road construction, and operates across various states in the United States.

IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd is an infrastructure and construction company. The company organizes itself into segments: Built, Operate and Transfer (BOT)/ Toll, Operate and Transfer (TOT) segment consist of operation and maintenance of roads; InvITs & Related Assets segment consists of investments in units of IRB Infrastructure Trust, IRB InvIT Fund and other related assets; and Construction segment consists of development and maintenance of roads. It derives maximum revenue from Construction segment.

Cube Highways Trust is an Indian infrastructure investment trust formed to invest in infrastructure assets, mainly in the road sector in India. It is engaged in the business of toll operations and maintenance, and operates a group of approximately twenty-seven road assets spread across various states and a union territory in India. At the transaction date, the organisation operated in Road Infrastructure and participated through the products, services, assets or investment capabilities described in the cited materials. It served B2B and B2G customers, users or counterparties through those activities. Its commercial model generated revenue through services, supported by sector expertise, operating execution and customer relationships. The business depended on its people, technology, physical assets, regulatory position or investment capital as appropriate to the sector. This profile identifies the legal or operating participant in the historical transaction and preserves that identity where a later merger, disposal, delisting or reorganisation changed the company’s name or ownership.

Zhejiang Expressway Co Ltd is a Chinese infrastructure company which, through its subsidiaries, develops, maintains, and operates high-grade roads. The company organizes itself into three segments: toll operation, securities business, and other business. The company derives the majority of revenue and earnings from the toll road business. The securities business, the next segment, provides brokerage services, including advisory, margin lending, and asset management. The company earns the entirety of revenue domestically.

Park24 Co Ltd is a Japanese operator of parking facilities. The company is organised into three segments: Parking Business Japan, Parking Business International, and Mobility Business. The parking business, which contributes the majority of revenue, operates fully automated parking facilities and related services. The Parking business in the international segment provides Parking facility management overseas. The mobility business car rental services through the Times Car RENTAL brand, car sharing services through the Times Car PLUS brand, and related services. While the company operates in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, the company earns the majority of its revenue domestically.

Road King Expressway International Holdings is a Hong Kong-listed operator of toll roads in China since 1996. The company manages a 340-kilometer portfolio across Hebei, Hunan, Shanxi, and Anhui provinces including the Taiqian Expressway and Jishou East Link. Road King collects tolls under concessions extending to 2038 and invests in expansions aligned with Belt and Road Initiative projects.