3i has a unique competitive advantage when it comes to Infrastructure investment. We can bring our global private equity expertise, resources and networks to bear on behalf of projects whenever required. Our team invests in both projects and funds and builds portfolios of assets to bring to market across Europe, North America and Asia.

Political influence can be such an important factor in this marketplace. As a result, we look for people with good industry backgrounds and great networking ability, who excel at making contacts that can open doors to the most interesting investment opportunities around.

It’s the nature of this business that those opportunities are usually long-term projects. We therefore expect our investors to approach investing with a long-term perspective and be willing to accept the field's particular challenges, not least the fact that not every investment lasts the full cycle.

Financing is the biggest challenge of all in this business. That’s why our Infrastructure investors also have to be extremely detail-oriented people, who are as adept at building large and dynamic financial models as they are at building relationships.