The London section of the IJGlobal Awards 2023 to recognise achievements in infrastructure finance and refinance activity in the last calendar year was staged this evening – and here we publish all the winners

When faced with a shortlist of 2 in the Outstanding Individual category for IJGlobal Awards 2023, the independent panel of judges for Europe and Africa opted to recognise the achievements of both… awarding the Infra Pioneer Award to Craig Forrest.

The massed infrastructure and energy community gathered in London this evening to attend IJGlobal Awards 2023, celebrating the successes of the last calendar year for deals closed across Europe and Africa

The State Investment Council of New Mexico will make infrastructure fund commitments to 3 vehicles

BT has won a £26 million contract under the UK’s Project Gigabit to roll-out more than 650 rural British primary schools to gigabit broadband

AustralianSuper yesterday committed to an additional £8 billion of investment into the United Kingdom by 2030

Infravia Capital Partners is considering the sale of its Swiss data centre

Digital 9 has received foreign direct investment approval in Finland and unconditional merger control approval from Iceland for the sale of Verne Global to Ardian France

Global Infrastructure Partners has reached final close on its first dedicated emerging markets strategy at $2.1 billion

Singapore-headquartered Princeton Digital Group is in the market to raise debt for its upcoming Malaysia data centre

Vantage Data Centers has secured a $64 million loan to finance Taiwan’s first greenfield hyperscale data center

Talen Energy has sold its Cumulus data centre campus in northeast Pennsylvania to AWS for $650 million

Steve Mercieca, a veteran banker, has been promoted to be the managing director and regional head of ASEAN & Australia teams, project and export finance at Standard Chartered Bank

Big 4 veteran Richard Abadie is stepping down from his global infrastructure leadership role, resigning partnership to take on a new role as an independent investment committee member at IFM Investors – but will continue to serve at PwC

Meridiam announced yesterday that it will DBFM a high-speed fibre-optic network project in Alabama