Macquarie Asset Management announces partnership with Dow to launch Diamond Infrastructure Solutions

This new partnership, Diamond Infrastructure Solutions, will be a specialist infrastructure provider to Dow and other industrial customers at its five locations in Texas and Louisiana, offering comprehensive services to its tenants with a focus on world class efficiency, reliability and safety. As a dedicated infrastructure company, Diamond will be a new business model with greater strategic focus on operational efficiencies and new customer acquisition.

Diamond is comprised of certain non-product producing assets (power and steam production, pipelines, environmental operations and general site infrastructure) located at five of Dow’s manufacturing sites in the US Gulf Coast (USGC): Freeport, Texas City, and Seadrift in Texas, as well as Plaquemine and St. Charles in Louisiana. Pipeline and storage assets span across the USGC with connections to major natural gas, NGL and olefin hubs.

“As a long-term owner of essential infrastructure, we recognise the value that can be unlocked through the development of infrastructure platforms like Diamond Infrastructure Solutions,” said Ben Way, Global Head of Macquarie Asset Management. “We believe that our significant infrastructure experience and capabilities, coupled with Dow’s operational excellence, will deliver additional efficiencies and long-term growth.”

Macquarie Asset Management is a leading global infrastructure asset manager with a focus on operational excellence. Over the last 21 years, Macquarie Asset Management has invested or committed more than $US21 billion in 54 portfolio companies across the Americas region.

“Today’s announcement demonstrates Dow’s ongoing commitment to value maximising actions across our portfolio,” said Jim Fitterling, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Dow. “This transaction further strengthens our financial flexibility and enables continued cash deployment towards the most attractive opportunities that will create long-term value for our stakeholders. We are confident that Macquarie is the right industrially minded partner due to our shared values to ensure the ongoing safe and reliable operations of these assets to support Dow and industrial customers across the US Gulf Coast.”

Dow expects to receive initial cash proceeds of approximately US$2.4 billion based on the sale of its 40% minority equity stake with the potential to generate cash proceeds up to approximately US$3.0 billion for a 49% minority equity stake. Macquarie Asset Management will have the option to increase its equity share to 49% within six months of closing. Dow and Macquarie Asset Management expect to close the transaction in the first half of 2025, subject to customary regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

BMO Capital Markets acted as exclusive financial advisor to Macquarie Asset Management and Sidley Austin LLP acted as legal counsel.

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