In the mid-market infrastructure market, scaling a business into a fully functional institutional platform and capturing the associated scale premium are powerful drivers of value at exit.

In this article, Olivier Laroche, Partner, and Matthieu Cornu, Director, Asset Management, explore the various approaches to executing buy-and-build strategies to drive long-term value creation.

Among value-add approaches, buy-and-build can unlock significant growth. Over the past decade, InfraVia has consistently scaled platforms through a balanced combination of organic growth (CAPEX) and acquisition-led expansion (M&A). The investment teams have completed over 100 buy-and-build transactions, ranging from building platforms from scratch to accelerating existing small platforms through repetitive bolt-on acquisitions or pursuing strategic acquisitions that open up new markets or verticals.

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