GIP names London partner

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a US private equity infrastructure investor, has appointed Joseph Blum as a partner and general counsel, based at the firm’s London office.

Blum has experience in all aspects of cross-border project development and financing, as well as joint ventures and privatizations. He joins from Latham & Watkins after 21 years, where he was a partner and head of the London office’s project development and finance group.