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BROOKFIELD, News, April 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (鈥淏IP鈥�) (NYSE: BIP; TSX: BIP.UN) and its institutional partners (collectively, 鈥淏rookfield Infrastructure鈥�) reached a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the world-class midstream asset portfolio Colonial Enterprises (鈥淐olonial鈥�), which includes the Colonial Pipeline, for an enterprise value of approximately $9 billion or 9x EBITDA. Colonial is comprised of the largest refined products system in the U.S., spanning approximately 5,500 miles between Texas and New York. The business has a multi-decade track record of strong performance and high utilization serving a high-quality customer base along the U.S. East Coast.

At closing, BIP鈥檚 equity investment is expected to be $500 million, which represents approximately 15% of the total equity investment, funded entirely by proceeds from recently announced capital recycling initiatives. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. Debt financing for the transaction was led by Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Mizuho Bank, Ltd., with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. acting as sole bookrunner on the term loan facility. Brookfield Infrastructure engaged Jefferies LLC, Greenhill & Co. LLC, a Mizuho affiliate, and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint financial advisors and Kirkland & Ellis LLP as legal advisor.

About Brookfield Infrastructure

Brookfield Infrastructure is a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. We are focused on assets that have contracted and regulated revenues that generate predictable and stable cash flows. Investors can access its portfolio either through Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (NYSE: BIP; TSX: BIP.UN), a Bermuda-based limited partnership, or Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE, TSX: BIPC), a Canadian corporation. Further information is available at .

Brookfield Infrastructure is the flagship listed infrastructure company of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over $1 trillion of assets under management. For more information, go to .

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Factors that could cause actual results of Brookfield Infrastructure to differ materially from those contemplated or implied by the statements in this news release include general economic and market conditions in the jurisdictions in which we operate (including that management鈥檚 expectations may differ from actual economic and market trends), regulatory developments and changes in inflation rates in the U.S. and elsewhere, the impact of market conditions on our business, the fact that success of Brookfield Infrastructure is dependent on market demand for an infrastructure company, which is unknown, the availability of and our ability to obtain equity and debt financing and the terms thereof, foreign currency risk, the outcome and timing of various regulatory, legal and contractual issues, global credit and financial markets, the competitive business environment in the industries in which we operate, the competitive market for acquisitions and other growth opportunities, our ability to satisfy conditions precedent required to complete, our ability to integrate acquisitions into existing operations and the future performance of those acquisitions, our ability to close planned transactions, our ability to complete large capital expansion projects on time and within budget, favorable commodity prices, our ability to achieve the milestones necessary to deliver the targeted returns to our unitholders, weakening demand for products and services in the markets for the commodities that underpin demand for our infrastructure, ability to negotiate favorable take-or-pay contractual terms, the continued operation of large capital projects by customers of our businesses which themselves rely on access to capital and continued favorable commodity prices, changes in technology which have the potential to disrupt business and industries in which we invest, uncertainty with respect to future sources of investment opportunities, traffic on our toll roads and other risks and factors described in the documents filed by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. with the securities regulators in Canada and the United States including under 鈥淩isk Factors鈥� in its most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F. Except as required by law, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.