Peru prequals bidders for 4G upgrades

Peruvian investment promotion agency ProInversión has prequalified 4 bidders for the award of the AWS-3 and 2.3GHz Radio Spectrum Band projects

ADB launches SME fund for frontier markets

Asian Development Bank has launched fund ADB Frontier to invest in small and medium-sized enterprises at frontier markets in Asia Pacific

Squire Patton Boggs appoints Tan from K&L Gates

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Lian Yok Tan as its Singapore-based partner focusing on energy and infrastructure practices

Ardian completes INWIT sell down

Ardian has completed the sell-down of its directly and indirectly held shareholding in Italian telecoms business Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane, now exceeding the 30% threshold

Stonepeak recapitalises euNetworks

Stonepeak has recapitalised bandwidth infra business euNetworks, alongside strategic investments from APG and IMCO

Virtus opens up in Berlin

UK-based data centre operator Virtus has launched its first data centre project outside of the UK with a campus to be built in Berlin, Germany

Swiss Life AM launches second value-add fund vintage

Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched the second fund in its value-add strategy, a part of its growing Infrastructure Equity platform

Arch Street Capital enters US infrastructure sector

Real estate and investment advisory firm Arch Street Capital Advisors will enter the infrastructure sector in the US with an up to $3 billion mandate

Burges Salmon hires UK corporate, M&A partner

Burges Salmon has appointed AJ Venter as partner in its corporate and M&A team based in Edinburgh

Patrizia names new CEO and COO

The board of directors of Patrizia, the global real assets manager, have named Asoka Wöhrmann as CEO designate and Slava Shafir as chief operating officer

Colorado county issues RFP for broadband P3

Mesa County in Colorado has issued an RFP seeking service provider partners for a broadband initiative via a P3

I Squared’s money man quits

Andreas Moon – lauded as “rainmaker” and the “money man” at I Squared – has this week quit his role as head of IR and fundraising at the Miami-based infrastructure fund

WPP, GCM Grosvenor partner on infra investments

UK Government pension pool Wales Pension Partnership has appointed NASDAQ-listed alternative investment manager GCM Grosvenor as its partner for infrastructure investments

Sequoia board member steps down

Sarika Patel, board member and head of the audit committee for LSE-listed Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund, will step down at the fund’s next annual general meeting in August

Northern Fibre Holding locks in €240m facility

German digital infrastructure company Northern Fibre Holding today announced that it has secured a €240 million loan package from a consortium of 5 European lenders to facilitate growth in the German market