Final RFP issued for NCDOT broadband P3

The final RFP has been issued to shortlisted bidders for the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s broadband project

Basalt III holds final close

Basalt Infrastructure Partners reached a $2.75 billion hard cap for its third fund on Friday (5 February)

MIRA makes non-binding bid for Vocus

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets has made a confidential non-binding indicative proposal to acquire 100% of Australian telecommunications giant Vocus Group

Westpac seeks buyer for non-core asset

Australia’s oldest bank Westpac has started the search for a buyer for it’s superannuation business BT Super as a part of its strategy to off load non-core assets to focus on banking

AllianzGI launches high-yield infrastructure fund

AllianzGI is launching a high-yield infrastructure credit strategy after closing 2 previous debt funds in Q4 2020

EQT promotes 3 to partner

EQT has promoted 3 members of its infrastructure team to partner as part of a wider wave of promotions

LP backs Korean fund

A Taiwanese limited partner committed nearly $40 million to a Korean alternative asset manager

German asset manager promotes Hennecke to head of infra

Florian Hennecke has been promoted to head of infrastructure investments with Signal Iduna Asset Manatement in Hamburg after 8 months with the company

Cellnex to acquire Hivory

Cellnex has reached an exclusivity agreement with Altice France and Starlight Holdco to acquire French tower operator Hivory

Vantage Towers IPO expected in March

The initial public offering of Vodafone’s tower business Vantage Towers is expected in March

Asian project bond issuer adds bank partnership

A Singapore-based investment manager has signed its most recent partnership agreement with a project finance bank

DFIs express concern about Myanmar

Development finance institutions are responding to the coup d'état that started on Monday morning in Myanmar

Indonesia expands telecom infrastructure

Indonesia's government plans to expands the development of a 4G base transceiver station in the country while relaunching the tender for telecom operators to bid on the 2.3GHz frequency for wireless broadband services

Asia/LatAm fund bags LP

A limited partner committed funding to an equity fund managed by global infrastructure investment manager I Square Capital

Adviser mandated for European data centre sale

An adviser has been lined up for the sale of a Nordic data centre business