Altamar third fund tipped for 2023
Spain’s AltamarCAM is expected to launch its third fund-of-funds in 2023, IJGlobal understands
Minority interest in GlobalConnect up for grabs
Digital infrastructure and data communication provider GlobalConnect is planning to sell off a 38% stake in its business
GLP to build 900MW data centres in Japan
Singapore-headquartered investment holding company GLP has announced plans to enter the Japanese data centre market by investing more than $13 billion to deliver up to 900MW of power capacity
Reliance Jio lands Maldives undersea cable system
Reliance Jio has landed a multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress undersea cable system in collaboration with Ocean Connect Maldives in the South Asian archipelago
Airtel joins SEA-ME-WE-6 consortium
Indian telecom multinational Bharti Airtel has joined the SEA-ME-WE-6 undersea cable consortium to increase its high-speed global network capacity
Slate hires in Schmid to head infra strategy
Slate Asset Management has appointed Christian Schmid as managing director and global head of infrastructure to lead on a new impact investment strategy focused on infrastructure
D9 Tetra buy pulled over pre-emption rights
Digital 9 Infrastructure has terminated the planned SPA to acquire a 56% stake in Tetra Ireland Communications for €76 million from Eir due to preemption rights exercised by another shareholder
Demiralan follows Yates into RPS
Energy and utilities specialist Bora Demiralan has started at the growing London office of infrastructure advisory firm RPS Group, having joined from engineering Arup
Entel scouts data centre buyer
Chilean telco Entel is weighing the potential sale of its data centre business
Approval for PIF-led acquisition of telecom towers
Zain Group has approved a $807 million offer from a Public Investment Fund-led consortium to acquire an 80% majority stake in Zain KSA’s fleet of 8,069 passive tower infrastructure
JV to develop Philippines data centre portfolio
A JV between Philippines-based JJYnchausti Ventures and US-based CloudCenters is investing up to $500 million during the next 3 years on a data centre portfolio in the Philippines
EQT-backed platform to acquire Indonesia data centre
An EQT-backed developer agreed to acquire 100% interest in the first Indonesian data centre with Japanese technology
Niam fund in exclusivity on 3 projects
Niam Infra Fund has an exclusivity agreement in place for 3 new deals – expected to conclude by the summer – as it holds first close at SEK500 million
Swoop acquires dark fibre network
Australian telecoms specialist Swoop has today finalised the acquisition of Sydney based dark fibre provider Luminet
Pomerleau Capital launches fund
Pomerleau Capital has launched a new vehicle – PCap Infrastructure & Renewables Fund