Canada’s Brookfield has told potential co-investors that it could bring Origin Energy back to the stock exchange in as little as five years.
The discussions raised concerns with some of the shareholders involved in the talks, including AustralianSuper, that a five- to seven-year timeframe would be too tight for Brookfield to invest between $20 billion and $30 billion, as it has publicly flagged, into Origin’s clean energy transition.
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