EQT Infrastructure has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in Trescal – a global provider of calibration laboratories from OMERS via its EQT Infrastructure V fund

Macquarie Asset Management has hit final close on its second series fundraising for its Super Core Infrastructure strategy – which now has €12.6 billion of combined commitments

Ashurst has hired Simon Rahimzada as partner from King & Spalding to bolster the firm’s MENA corporate practice in the United Arab Emirates

DIF Capital Partners is set to acquire a majority stake in Ruhrfibre to support the build-out of a large-scale fibre network in Essen, targeting around 150,000 households

Eurazeo has reached a €210 million first close on its transition infrastructure fund ETIF with commitments from several institutional investors, including a €75 million cornerstone investment from the European Investment Fund

International investor John Laing has hired in Sandrine Lalmant to take on the newly-created role of head of sustainability

Invesis, a global investor and developer of sustainable infrastructure, has entered the digital infrastructure sector with the acquisition of UK data centre operator Asanti Datacentres

The North American market will be off from 24 November to celebrate Thanksgiving

German fibre-to-the-home provider TNG has secured a €325 million financing package to accelerate the roll-out of its fibre network across rural and semi-rural areas in northern Germany and Hesse

DigitalBridge Group funds affiliated with DigitalBridge Investment Management have acquired an ownership stake in Aims Group – operator of highly-connected ecosystem-centric data centers based in Malaysia from Time dotCom Berhad

Non-binding offers are due next week for Gigaclear's imminent capital raise with UBS enlisted to handle the process, according to a source

Financial close will be achieved within weeks on a major UK fibre transaction as the 3 underwriters put finishing touches to the deal

M&G’s infrastructure equity investor arm, Infracapital has appointed Latifa Tefridj-Gaillard as its new head of capital formation and investor relations

Cube Infrastructure Managers – via its Connecting Europe Broadband Fund – is set to invest an initial €14 million into the first phase of a Finnish FTTH project by Fibernet

Africa-focused investor Helios Investment Partners is to acquire majority stakes in Maroc data center and IXAfrica data centre for an undisclosed sum