Linklaters has made up John Guccione as partner based out of its London office

EXA Infrastructure, the largest digital infrastructure platform in Europe and North America, is partnering with Italy's FibreConnect to bring fibre connection to Italian industrial and building locations which do not typically benefit from connectivity from mainstream operators

abrdn has signed an agreement to make a major equity investment in a partnership with Digi Spain, a subsidiary of RCS & RDS

Austrian fibre joint venture Alpen Glasfaser has raised €417.5 million for its first fibre roll-out in Austria

Green Climate Fund has committed $253 million to Africa Finance Corporation's climate resilience fund

US Signal Company, an IT solutions provider and portfolio company of Igneo Infrastructure Partners, has named Daniel Watts as CEO

Cube Infrastructure Managers has acquired a majority stake in Nordic data centre operator GleSYS from chief executive and founder Glenn Johansson, VIA equity Fond III, and certain key employees and minority shareholders of the company

Arizona has received multiple responses from firms interested in providing operations, maintenance and commercialisation services for its for middle-mile fibre infrastructure

The UK’s Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology has announced a £69 million cash injection for a large-scale broadband rollout as part of Project Gigabit, the government’s flagship £5 billion programme to enable rural communities to access ultra-fast gigabit-capable broadband

GuarantCo has closed its first syndication transaction via the credit insurance market to help guarantee infrastructure projects in lower income countries in Africa and Asia

Conapto, a Swedish Margeurite-backed data centre company, has obtained €35.8 million loan to finance the build of a new data centre in the south of Stockholm

Rakiza, an infrastructure fund investing in the Sultanate of Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is co-managed by Oman Infrastructure Investment Management and Equitix, has reached the target of its first fund at over $1 billion

Baker Botts has hired Neil Torpey as a partner in its corporate department, based in New York and Austin