DENVER AIRPORT AND LOOP CAPITAL, MAGIC JOHNSON AND OBAMA
http://www.infrapppworld.com/news/megaproject-725-denver-international-airport-picks-ferrovial-jlc-loop-capital-partners-team-for-p3-project
Denver International Airport (DEN) has selected a consortium led by Ferrovial Airports as the preferred bidder to carry out the Denver International Airport redevelopment public private partnership (PPP) project.
The team beat out competition from two other bidders: Den Transformation Team DT2 (Manchester Airport Group) and Westfield LLC.
The wining team is composed of the following local, national and international companies:
• Equity Partners: Ferrovial Airports International Ltd., JLC Loop Capital, Saunders Construction and Magic Johnson Enterprises
• Design & Build partners: Ferrovial Agroman and Saunders Construction, Inc.
• Architects: Luis Vidal + Architects, Harrison Kornberg Architects and Anderson Mason Dale
• Local Engineers/Contractors: Intermountain Electric, Civil Technology, Gilmore Construction, Sky Blue Builders and Burgess Services
• Equity Partners Legal Advisors: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Financial Advisor: Citibank
According to sources, the winning consortium will have capital from JLC Loop Capital Partners, which is the infrastructure investment firm set up by the former Los Angeles Laker, Magic Johnson. He recently founded the company to take advantage of new federal government infrastructure spending promised by President Barack Obama. The firm raised over $1.3 billion in the first quarter of 2016, including $1 billion from a sole investor.