The Abu Dhabi Projects and Infrastructure Centre (ADPIC) has sealed a strategic partnership deal with Patrizia, an investment manager in real assets, to deepen co-operation around infrastructure investment as well as boost project delivery in the UAE capital, drawing on Patrizia’s wider real assets expertise.
The agreement was signed during the Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit (ADIS) International Roadshow at Expo Real 2026 in Munich by Eng Maysarah Mahmoud Salim Eid, Director General of ADPIC and Hassan Awada, the Senior Executive Officer, Mena at Patrizia.
ADPIC sits at the centre of Abu Dhabi’s capital-project programme, co-ordinating planning, governance, and delivery across approximately 500 projects valued at more than AED200 billion ($54.4 billion).
The programme spans housing, transport, culture, education, social infrastructure, and the wider urban systems supporting Abu Dhabi’s long-term growth, livability, and economic competitiveness.
The agreement also reflects the wider objective of the ADIS International Roadshow by connecting Abu Dhabi’s infrastructure ecosystem with international partners that bring specialist expertise and long-term capability, while deepening engagement with Germany and Europe.
The partnership establishes a framework for Patrizia and ADPIC to exchange international expertise and explore areas where private-sector participation can strengthen project delivery and long-term value creation. This includes dialogue around public-private partnership structures, sharing international best practice in infrastructure financing and delivery, and exploring potential investment and co-investment opportunities arising from Abu Dhabi’s capital projects programme.
The two organisations will also cooperate on market insight, benchmarking and technical studies relevant to infrastructure investment and project delivery, while exploring ways to support greater international participation, knowledge exchange, and access to specialist capability across Abu Dhabi’s ecosystem.
Eng. Maysarah Mahmoud Salim Eid, Director General of ADPIC, said: "Abu Dhabi’s infrastructure programme requires partners that bring proven international capability, market insight, and a long-term commitment. Through this partnership with Patrizia, we will explore how that experience can support private-sector participation, strengthen project delivery, and create long-term value. This is exactly the type of practical international cooperation the ADIS International Roadshow is designed to advance."
Patrizia has worked with institutional investors and partners in Abu Dhabi for 15 years, building long-term relationships across the emirate.
The recent establishment of a permanent presence in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) marked a further step in that commitment, strengthening Patrizia’s ability to work with regional investors and partners and connect them with its international real assets platform.
Asoka Wöhrmann, the CEO of Patrizia, said: "Abu Dhabi has established itself as an important centre for long-term investment and infrastructure development. Our teams have worked with clients and partners in the Emirate for the past 15 years, and our decision to establish a permanent presence in Abu Dhabi reflects the importance we attach to that relationship."
"We have seen first-hand the scale of its ambition and the increasingly important role that international expertise and private capital can play. This partnership creates a framework through which Patrizia can contribute its experience across real assets while deepening our longstanding relationships in Abu Dhabi.”
Hassan Awada, Senior Executive Officer, MENA at Patrizia, said: “Abu Dhabi is developing into a significant market for infrastructure and real assets investment, supported by major infrastructure pipeline and a clear focus on attracting international investment and expertise. Our partnership with ADPIC gives us an opportunity to closely support on delivering these priorities and to explore where Patrizia’s international investment capabilities can support the Emirate’s long-term ambitions."
The agreement reflects Patrizia’s wider strategy of combining its established global real assets platform with selective international growth in markets where it has longstanding client relationships and relevant investment expertise, he added.-TradeArabia News Service
