Reuters: Private Equity: UPDATE 1-BAA sells Edinburgh airport to GIP for 807 mln stg

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UPDATE 1-BAA sells Edinburgh airport to GIP for 807 mln stg Apr 23rd 2012, 13:24 Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:24am EDT * Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) buys Edinburgh airport * GIP also owns London's Gatwick and City airports LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - Ferrovial-owned BAA on Monday said it had agreed to sell Edinburgh airport to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for 807 million pounds ($1.3 billion), adding the Scottish hub to an investment portfolio that includes London's Gatwick and City airports. GIP, an investment fund founded by Credit Suisse and General Electric, beat off a consortium led by JP Morgan Asset Management's infrastructure fund. Earlier on Monday two sources close to the sale process told Reuters that GIP had won the auction after agreeing a price in the region of 800 million pounds. BAA last year chose to sell Edinburgh airport after Britain's Competition Commission ordered it to dispose of one of its Scottish airports. The regulator also required BAA to sell Gatwick, which it did in 2009, as part of a drive to loosen the firm's grip on the sector. BAA has also been ordered to sell London Stansted, leaving it with the capital's main Heathrow hub, as well as Southampton in the south of England and Glasgow and Aberdeen airports in Scotland. JP Morgan Asset Management led a consortium including Incheon, South Korea's airport authority and U.S. teachers' pension fund TIAA-Cref. However, TIAA-Cref pulled out earlier this month. Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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