Macquarie Asset Management Acquires Minority Stake in Dow's U.S. Gulf Coast Infrastructure to Launch Diamond Infrastructure Solutions

A fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management agreed to acquire a 40% minority equity stake (with an option to increase to 49%) in select U.S. Gulf Coast infrastructure assets of Dow Inc., forming a new joint-venture platform called Diamond Infrastructure Solutions. The assets—site utilities, power and steam production, pipelines, environmental operations and storage—span five Dow sites in Texas and Louisiana; the transaction provides Dow with cash proceeds (approximately $2.4bn initially, up to ~$3.0bn if Macquarie increases to 49%) and creates a specialist infrastructure operator to serve Dow and third-party industrial customers.