Telecoms players circle TDF Group stake
NBOs are due imminently for the sale of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ minority stake in French telco TDF Group
Shearman & Sterling promotes NY partner
Shearman & Sterling has promoted Augusto Ruiloba to partner in its New York project development and finance practice
Lendlease, Princeton building Japan data centre
Australian real estate company Lendlease and Singapore-headquartered data centre company Princeton Digital Group have partnered for a 100MW data centre in north Tokyo
New ADB country director arrives in Ashgabat
Asian Development Bank’s new country director for Turkmenistan, Artur Andrysiak, has arrived in Ashgabat following his appointment last month
Infranode acquires stake in Norwegian telco
Swedish investment business Infranode has agreed to acquire a 49% stake in fibre company Tafjord Connect from municipality-owned power & utility company Tafjord Kraft
Data centre developer to expand Oz footprint
Data centre investor Stack Infrastructure has joined forces with Australian commercial real estate developer Hickory to deploy 124MW capacity across the country
CDPQ hires infra debt director
London-based Thibault Sauvage has joined Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec as a director in the infrastructure debt team
Government bailout for Mexican telecoms PPP
Bankrupt Mexican telecoms concessionaire Altán Redes has signed a $388 million rescue package led by the federal government
Foresight acquires Downing’s tech funds
Foresight has acquired 3 funds from the technology ventures division of UK asset manager Downing for £13.6 million – taking its private equity AUM to £1.2 billion
IFC backstops Philippines tower market deal
IFC is investing an additional $8.3 million in EdgePoint, as DigitalBridge’s tower platform enters the growing Philippines tower market
Adam Petrie joins Apollo as partner
Adam Petrie has joined Apollo Infrastructure as a partner to be based out of London, following a 13 year stretch at AMP Capital
Peru moves to rerun fibre tender
Peruvian telecoms regulator Pronatel has announced plans to run a fresh tender process to O&M the national fibre backbone network after the last attempt was abandoned
Another LP backs latest Brookfield fund
An Asia-headquartered institutional investor has agreed to allocate to the latest vintage of Brookfield’s flagship infrastructure strategy
UKIB makes 4 NED appointments
The UK Infrastructure Bank has appointed 4 new non-executive directors, with each term taking effect from today
EY poaches modelers for digital twin offshoot
The Australian arm of EY has poached 5 modelers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, expanding its digital twin practice