What this guide is for
Your firm launches a PPP program that invests equity in public-private partnership (PPP) project companies and builds the operators, contractors and technology platforms that serve them.
The case
Private equity builds the companies that run infrastructure
Infrastructure equity has mostly been held by a few developers and large funds that buy finished assets. The projects of the next fifty years will create thousands of new operating companies, service firms and platforms around them, and the investors that build those companies early will own the businesses that run the built world. This guide invites private equity firms in Jordan to launch a PPP program, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Build the companies of the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
Your firm opens a dedicated PPP program, a team and a strategy that invests in PPP project companies and builds the operators, contractors and technology platforms around them, starting with Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A PPP investment team
A dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and financed follows every project in Jordan’s pipeline from the first market sounding and decides early where the firm’s equity and companies can win.
02
Equity in PPP project companies
The firm takes equity stakes in project companies beside developers and contractors, at bid, at financial close or after construction, when the risk falls and the asset starts to earn.
03
Buy-and-build platforms
The firm buys and combines the operators, maintenance firms, facility managers and specialist contractors that PPPs need, building platforms that serve many concessions at once and grow with the pipeline.
04
PE-led direct proposals
Jordan’s PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15. A portfolio company can propose a project built around its own service, with the firm’s equity behind it and partners who build and finance it.
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Pilots as small-scale PPPs
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. A portfolio of small concessions gives a platform steady contracted revenue and the track record that larger projects will ask for.
Why private equity firms
Private equity builds the companies that run infrastructure
A PPP is a long contract with steady revenue, and the companies that deliver and operate it can be bought, improved and grown. Private equity brings the capital, the operating discipline and the exit planning that turn those companies into platforms.
Where private equity fits in a PPP
- Preparation
- Capital and management support for developers and proposers preparing bids and direct proposals.
- Tender
- Equity commitments that strengthen a consortium’s bid and its financial case.
- Financial close
- Equity in the project company beside developers, contractors and lenders.
- Operation
- Ownership of the operators, maintenance firms and service providers that run the asset, improved with AI and robotics.
- Exit
- Sales of stakes and platforms to infrastructure funds, pension funds, strategic buyers or tokenized note holders.
The value sits in the companies around the assets
Each concession needs an operator, a maintenance contractor, facility managers, technology suppliers and specialist services for twenty or thirty years. A firm that owns those companies across many projects earns from every concession in its sector and builds businesses that infrastructure funds and strategic buyers want to own.
Why a program, and why now
Jordan’s pipeline is large and early, and the operators and service firms it will need are still small or do not yet exist. A program gives a private equity firm a team, a strategy and the partners to act first, and the firm that builds Jordan’s first PPP platforms will set the price for every later deal.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Private Equity Firms in Jordan for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Many of them will need equity partners and the operating companies to deliver them. A Jordanian private equity firm that builds one PPP platform at home can carry the same companies to the next projects across the region.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI changes the value of the companies a private equity firm owns. Operators that run assets with AI need fewer people per asset and predict failures before they cost money, which raises margins across a portfolio of concessions. The firm can also screen the whole pipeline, model each project and run due diligence in days.
Robotics
Robotic construction and maintenance turn traditional contractors and service firms into technology companies. A private equity firm can buy those firms, fund their move to robots, drones and sensors and grow their margins on every concession they serve, a classic value-creation plan applied to infrastructure.
Tokenization
Tokenization gives a private equity firm new ways to raise and return capital. Stakes in operating PPP companies can be offered to many investors as tokenized notes, which opens a new exit route beside trade sales and listings and lets the firm recycle its equity into the next projects faster.
Small PPPs and research labs
Small PPPs are ideal first investments for a platform. A private equity firm can back the companies that run a research lab’s pilots, fund their move to AI and robotics and bundle the pilots that work into a portfolio of small concessions, building a track record before the larger projects reach the market.
Unsolicited proposals
A direct proposal lets a portfolio company bring its own service to a ministry or municipality as a project of its own. The firm’s equity strengthens the proposal’s financial case at review, the company protects the intellectual property behind it and keeps the right to match the best offer at tender.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the firm’s investment team, with a PPP lead at its center and a strategy built from the firm’s existing funds and portfolio.
- PPP team
- A small team of investment, operations, legal and finance people that covers every PPP in Jordan’s pipeline from the first market sounding.
- Project equity
- Stakes in PPP project companies at bid, financial close or after construction.
- Platforms
- Buy-and-build of operators, maintenance firms, facility managers and specialist contractors that serve many concessions.
- Value creation
- AI, robotics and sensor programs that raise margins and service quality across the portfolio.
- Direct proposals
- Projects proposed by portfolio companies under Article 15, prepared with partners who can finance and build them.
- Pilots
- Small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million that build a platform’s track record on live assets.
- Partners
- Co-investment with developers, infrastructure funds, family offices, banks and development finance institutions.
What the firm gains
The firm gains investments backed by long contracts and steady revenue, platforms that grow with every new concession and exits to the infrastructure funds, pension funds and strategic buyers that pay for proven operating companies.
It also gains a position at the start of a new asset class. The first private equity firm to build PPP platforms in Jordan will own the operators and service companies that the next decades of projects depend on, in Jordan and across the region.
Next steps
How a private equity firm can start
Any private equity firm in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the capital, team and portfolio the firm already has.
01
Mandate
Investment committee approval for a PPP program, with its sectors, its ticket sizes and its first-year goals.
02
Team
A named program lead, with investment, operations, legal and finance people drawn from the firm’s existing teams.
03
Pipeline
A map of Jordan’s $86 billion of projects by sector and stage, and early meetings with the developers and contractors bidding for them.
04
Targets
A shortlist of operators, maintenance firms and service companies that could anchor a first PPP platform.
05
Partners
Developers, infrastructure funds, family offices, banks and development finance institutions ready to co-invest.
06
Pilot
A first project stake, platform acquisition or portfolio-led direct proposal, taken from idea to signing.
Jordan has the projects, the companies to build on and a law that lets a company propose its own. A PPP program puts your firm at the center of how the superintelligent infrastructure future is owned and run.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for private equity firms in Jordan.
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01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
Page 3 of 17
02The guide
Build the companies of the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
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03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Page 6 of 17
04Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for private equity firms.
Page 7 of 17
05Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for private equity firms.
Page 8 of 17
06Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for private equity firms.
Page 9 of 17
07Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
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08PPP research labs
A lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.
Page 11 of 17
09Unsolicited proposals
How Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.
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10Why private equity firms
Private equity builds the companies that run infrastructure
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11The program
The program can sit inside the firm’s investment team, with a PPP lead at its center and a strategy built from the firm’s existing funds and portfolio.
Page 14 of 17
12About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
Page 15 of 17
13Next steps
How a private equity firm can start: six first steps.
Page 16 of 17
Questions
Questions about the guide for Private Equity Firms in Jordan
- What does the guide for Private Equity Firms in Jordan propose?
- Your firm launches a PPP program that invests equity in public-private partnership (PPP) project companies and builds the operators, contractors and technology platforms that serve them.
- Why should private equity firms in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Private equity builds the companies that run infrastructure. A PPP is a long contract with steady revenue, and the companies that deliver and operate it can be bought, improved and grown. Private equity brings the capital, the operating discipline and the exit planning that turn those companies into platforms.
- Which PPP projects can private equity firms in Jordan take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Many of them will need equity partners and the operating companies to deliver them. A Jordanian private equity firm that builds one PPP platform at home can carry the same companies to the next projects across the region.
- How can private equity firms in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any private equity firm in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the capital, team and portfolio the firm already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, targets, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give private equity firms in Jordan?
- The firm gains investments backed by long contracts and steady revenue, platforms that grow with every new concession and exits to the infrastructure funds, pension funds and strategic buyers that pay for proven operating companies.
- Is the guide for Private Equity Firms in Jordan free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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