A consortium led by KKR is set to acquire a 30% stake in Telenor's newly established passive fibre infrastructure company, Telenor Fiber, in Norway

John Laing has strengthened its US & Canada teams with the hiring of Kara Vague and Richard Kim as director and associate director respectively

US-based data centre company EdgeConneX has partnered with Aboitiz InfraCapital and is planning to build a network of hyperscale data centres across the Philippines

Foresight Group is set to invest in full fibre technology business Fibre & Wireless Networks – with a deal expected imminently, IJGlobal understands

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to set up a $74 million international business exchange data centre in Jakarta, Indonesia

Antin Infrastructure Partners’ fifth flagship fund has held first close, raising more than €5 billion to invest in infrastructure opportunities

Infracapital, the equity investment arm of M&G, has secured an €895 million debt facility from 4 commercial lenders to fund its fibre roll-out in rural Germany

NIBC Infrastructure Partners – lead arranger for the short-term loan facilities for Open Dutch Fiber’s fibre-to-the-premises roll-out – will increase the financing of the business

A limited partner has passed a milestone to allocate capital to a debt fund in Asia targeting to raise $750 million

TriStruX – Huron Capital’s Infrastructure Services Platform – is set to acquire fibre specialist Hess Broadband

Bahrain-based telecoms business Batelco – via its subsidiary Sure – will incorporate Channel Islands-based mobile network provider Airtel-Vodafone into its offering

UK-based Mace Group has expanded its data centre market in the Asia Pacific by appointing Chris Wallace as the head of data centres and critical facilities

Investment manager Wren House Infrastructure Management has acquired a minority stake in US mobile communications infra business Phoenix Tower International from Blackstone

Vodafone UK has confirmed speculation surrounding a possible merger with British telecoms business Hutchison 3G UK – a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings

Societe Generale infrastructure veteran Robert Ogden has this month left the French bank for a director role at SMBC