Carew & Bennett PPP advisory par excellence

Its been an incredible year for the team at Carew & Bennett having advised on several important sector defining pathfinder PPP projects here in the region as well as a number of national level PSP regulatory reform mandates that have been instrumental in shaping present-day PSP infrastructure development markets across the GCC.
None more than our privileged role as Abu Dhabi Investment Office’s Strategic Financial & Commercial Advisor since its inception in 2018 working side by side with the ADIO team in structuring and procuring several PPP projects to date.
Having closed Abu Dhabi Street Lighting PPP Project Phases 1 and 2, and Zayed City Schools PPP, these projects have set the gold standard for PPP procurement excellence in the region in terms of quality of the deals, project documents developed to the highest standards, the seamless, professional and transparent manner in which the procurement process is run, and not least, being time bound and predictable, delivering the deals from origination to close in 16 months, yet to be surpassed in region.

This is all down to the sheer dedication and professionalism of the respective teams at ADIO and Carew & Bennett working in a positive and collaborative environment.

Our methodology is simple, we embed ourselves within our clients’ projects in a way that creates no distinction between ours and our clients’ teams. We support our clients’ project teams through the entire project transaction cycle, from origination, structuring, procurement, negotiation and deal closure with a view to achieving two key outcomes, reaching financial close and transferring transaction management know how to our clients’ project teams, and enabling them to manage the process end to end independently.

To have worked as we have in taking Zayed City Schools PPP from a concept to financial close and to see the excellent progress being made on site by the winning consortium, Plenary & Besix and their technical partners UNEC, has been satisfying but for Zayed City Schools PPP to win the IJ Global Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year 2022, this recognition only serves to reinforce the values and approach taken by the respective teams in maintaining the highest professional standards when pursuing ambitious procurement objectives.

We are proud to be ADIO’s sole strategic and financial advisor but equally proud of the respective teams at ADIO and Carew & Bennett and all they have achieved in brining these deals to market.