Investments

Heathrow is the UK’s international gateway and the largest airport in Europe – connecting to 234 destinations in over 85 nations and regions. The airport welcomes over 200,000 passengers on roughly 1,300 flights each day, and serves as Britain’s hub for trade, tourism and investment. It is the largest port in the UK by value and a vital enabler of UK economic growth. It is also the largest single-site employer in the UK with more than 90,000 people working at Heathrow.

Unison, founded in 2003 by CEO Dewey Shay, is an established company engaged in the purchasing of disaggregated tower cell site ground leases, orphaned macro communication sites on rooftops and fiber-based site leases in the US, and more recently in Italy, Germany, France, Spain with planned expansion to additional markets in the coming years. Unison targets infrastructure assets with existing long-term contracts with mobile network operators and tower companies which house existing telecom infrastructure. Since inception, Unison has identified, negotiated and closed on over 6,000 site acquisitions, making it one of the leading wireless asset aggregators globally.

UNITe is a French Renewable Independent Power Producer (IPP) with an operating portfolio of 78MW. It is headquartered in Lyon, with regional offices throughout France, and employs 72 FTEs as of December 2024. UNITe has a strong track record in the development, construction, asset management (AM) and operation & maintenance (O&M) of renewable energy projects. UNITe is a leader among independent hydroelectric power producers (47 MW) and operates wind (25MW) and solar (6 MW) projects. Additionally, it has a pipeline of 2.3GW spread across various agrivoltaic solar technologies, expected to reach construction within the next 5 years. The company has successfully transitioned from a hydro-focused IPP to a leading solar developer, particularly in the agrivoltaic sector which is specifically targeted as an area of renewable growth by the French government. UNITe’s pipeline includes 2 GW of long-circuit ground-mounted solar projects used on pastures for sheep or cow breeding, and 297MW of short-circuit shade house solar projects used to provide shade to pheasants/chickens. The French agrivoltaic market has strong potential with the capacity expected to reach 26 GW by 2040 as over 44% of French metropolitan territory is agricultural.

CampusParc is the concessionaire that manages, operates, and maintains the parking facilities at The Ohio State University’s flagship campus in Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 2012 as a Public-Private-Partnership (P3), CampusParc is the first and largest university parking concession in the US with over 38,000 total parking spaces. It provides parking for students, faculty, staff and visitors at The Ohio State University – the fifth largest public university in the US with more than 90,000 students and faculty – as well as the staff and visitors at Wexner Medical Center, a nationally recognized research facility and teaching hospital located on campus. CampusParc, which has a strong track record and working relationship with The Ohio State University and other key local stakeholders over the past 11 years, is operating under a 50-year Concession Lease Agreement, with 39 years remaining.

Founded in 2012, Verne is a leading data center platform diversified across the UK and Nordics. Verne’s Northern European data center platform has experienced significant growth and now includes five data center campuses in London, Iceland and Finland. It provides highly specialised data center services for organisations running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, notably AI, machine learning and Large Language Models (LLM). Sustainability is at the heart of the company’s mission to help customers cost-effectively scale their digital infrastructure while reducing their carbon footprint. The majority of its data centers are powered by renewable energy.

Clermont is a Canadian joint venture with Indigo Group, a global player in parking and urban mobility. As part of the partnership, Indigo contributes its Canadian-owned properties to Clermont while retaining the operations of the properties through Indigo Park Canada. Ardian and Indigo will deploy additional equity over the long term, acquiring parking assets, as well as long-term concessions and leases, which will be operated by Indigo Canada. In line with its global strategy, Ardian supports Clermont’s digitization and sustainability efforts to drive value creation.