Nicolas Escallon coverage in Infralogic: Orygen exit underscores rapid execution of Actis’ Latin America strategy

Nicolás Escallón, Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, spoke to Jonathan Carmody at Infralogic about the firm’s exit from Orygen, Peru’s second-largest power generation company, following its sale to local conglomerate Grupo Romero.

The article examines how Actis acquired Enel’s Peruvian generation assets in May 2024, transforming them into a standalone 2.3 GW power platform before executing an earlier-than-expected exit after building a relationship with Grupo Romero. The piece explores the operational and commercial transformation delivered during Actis’ ownership and sets out the firm’s broader conviction in Latin America’s infrastructure opportunity.

Click here to read the full article on Infralogic.

Nicolás Escallón, Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, commented:

“It definitely wasn’t in our plans to sell after such a short hold time and we could have continued to hold. Eighty percent of what we were planning was done. We had expanded the platform since acquiring it.”

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