香港最富有的人李嘉诚将很快掌控在白金汉宫灯。
皇家住宅是伦敦周围的电力特许经营权的客户，李某，李某曾经在他身边的一些Deft交易制造商，上个月收购的余量为58亿英镑（89亿美元）。
A mergers and acquisitions advisory team from Royal Bank of Scotland Group, led by Simon Wilde, helped Li outmaneuver Australian rival bidder Macquarie Group and its partners, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Canada Pension Plan, to buy EDF Energy Networks’ power grids from Électricité de France (also known as EDF Group). EDF Networks distributes electricity to 8 million customers in Britain’s eastern and southern regions, including Buckingham Palace, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the University of Cambridge.
收购Bolsters Li的U.K.基础设施组合。他的长江基础设施持有人已经控制了剑桥水的公用事业公司，而李公司的Hutchison Whampoa，有资产，包括手机提供商3组和英国的一些港口设施。缺失的作品？力量。
“London needs good power and lots of power, so if you need to invest in a high-profile, prestigious asset, this is a great project,” says Wilde, who heads the team that advised Li’s consortium, which consisted of Cheung Kong Infrastructure, Hongkong Electric Holdings and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. “If you make a mistake, it will be very high-profile, but Cheung Kong Infrastructure and Hongkong Electric have good experience operating power plants in Hong Kong and are well qualified.”
这笔交易在比一个人的方式更加纪念：它是长期的海外投资，它是RBS作为唯一顾问的最大交易。它也是王尔德，40岁的个人胜利，欧洲，中东和非洲的RBS能源和资源团队的董事总经理和联合主管。The Cambridge graduate with a master’s in economics and law first alerted Cheung Kong executives to EDF’s desire to sell its U.K. subsidiary in early 2009. He had worked on the sale of another EDF subsidiary in 2002 and was familiar with long-term power contracts, having worked at RBS when it participated in the sale of Gatwick Airport, which involved renegotiation of an electricity contract. As a result, Wilde was well positioned to help Li’s team value EDF’s long-term contracts, present an offer and restructure the company’s debt load once the deal was accepted in July. (EDF’s board approved the sale on September 7.)
Wilde获得了稳固的经验，做了能源交易 - 以及良好的声誉 - 当他建议西班牙能源生产商IBerdrola在2007年购买美国电力公司Energy East East Corp.之前与ABN AMRO Group的并购团队合作9年。
“西蒙对能源行业的广泛知识，对如何应对客户对任何特定交易的需求非常了解，”佩德罗拉拉的企业发展负责人佩德罗阿扎拉说。“当我们需要他时，他总是可以使用。这对我们的成功出价作了关键差异。“
Hong Kong’s Superman — Li’s nickname in Asian business circles — almost didn’t get the U.K. power company, says Wilde, who, along with his team of 25 bankers and lawyers from RBS’s London and Hong Kong offices, worked around the clock for days before submitting a final winning bid on July 26.
“其中一个关键要素是这家新公司的新业务计划，”Wilde说。“我们需要提出一个最好的计划。我们需要解释许多细节，包括资本扩张，业务的组织结构以及将如何运行日常。“