This evening, at Gustavino’s New York, we hosted the IJGlobal Awards 2023 to celebrate transactions that closed over the course of the 2023 calendar year and the companies that drove them on to a successful conclusion

NextDC, the Australian data centre operator, has acquired a Sydney data centre, and the surrounding land, close to its existing portfolio for A$184 million

N Venkatram will join Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec as country chair for India, effective 1 April

EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has raised an additional $440 million in debt financing to support the construction, growth, and customer demands of its hyperscale Silicon Valley data centre campus

UK-based data centre operator Kao Data’s £350 million Manchester data centre will be presented to Stockton Council on 21 March 2024, IJGlobal has learnt

White & Case has hired Lavanya Raghavan as a funds partner in its global M&A practice and global private equity industry group, based in London

Blackstone has loaned Aligned Data Centers an initial $600 million as part of a senior secured credit facility to aid the development of a data centre on Aligned’s West Jordan, Utah, campus

Singapore Telecommunications has denied claims that it is selling Optus to Brookfield for A$16 billion

US-based infrastructure investor I Squared Capital has expanded in Europe with an office in Munich led by Yves Meyer-Bülow as fund partner

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co plans to invest $400 million into the telecom sector in the Philippines

GDS has confirmed plans to sell its data centres outside of China after reports that it was in late stage talks with Hillhouse Capital, Boyu Capital and CDH Investments

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners has launched Verrus, its new platform company focused on building “next-generation” data centres after several years of the entity being in stealth

HIG Capital has agreed to sell its German portfolio company, ICG Group, to SPIE Group, strengthening the Paris-listed company’s position in fibre networks

United States Agency for International Development and other US state agencies are to receive $2 billion over the next 5 years to run an infrastructure development strategy to “provide credible, reliable alternatives to the PRC’s ‘hard’ infrastructure options”, according to the US FY2025 budget

Singapore-headquartered infrastructure developer Keppel has partnered with Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan to explore data centre development and investment opportunities in Japan and Southeast Asia