BTG Chile appoints ED for project finance
BTG Pactual Chile has appointed Sebastián Mardones Silva as executive director for investment banking, focusing on project finance transactions across Latin America
Center3 acquires pan-African teleco CMC Networks
Saudi-based telecom company Center3, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saudi Telecom Company Group, has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of the South African network solutions provider CMC Networks
InfraBridge in UK alt net merger proposal
InfraBridge-backed VX UK and Freedom Fibre have reached an agreement to merge, with InfraBridge taking control of the new company upon close
Morgan Lewis adds 2 to Frankfurt M&A team
Morgan Lewis has appointed Hans Leube and Marianne Nawroth – both former partners at Bird & Bird – to its office in Frankfurt where they will focus on M&A deals involving private equity and infrastructure funds
Cordiant Digital expands Czech data centre portfolio
České Radiokomunikace, a Cordiant Digital portfolio company, has begun the process to acquire Aricoma’s data centre and cloud services businesses – Cloud4com and DC Lužice. The total value of the transaction will reach $44 million
French fibre JV secures €3.15bn refinancing
Investissement dans la Fibre des Territoires – a French fibre-optic joint venture between InfraVia and Iliad – has secured a €3.15 billion refinancing from a consortium of lenders including Infranity
Actis to refinance debt for LatAm acquisition
London-based infrastructure investor Actis is seeking to refinance debt on its acquisition of data centres across 6 Latin American countries and the US from Spanish data centre operator Nabiax in March
LMT to roll-out Latvian 5G
Latvian telco Latvijas Mobilais Telefons has signed a debt agreement with the EIB to finance the roll-out of 5G infrastructure across the country
Generate Capital appoints Sonneborn to president
US-based sustainable asset manager Generate Capital has appointed William Sonneborn – former investment committee chair of the International Finance Corporation – as its president, based in San Francisco, California
Japan provides grant for Cambodia data centre, water
The Japanese government is providing grand aid totalling $30 million for the development of 3 projects in Cambodia
Digital Edge ups stake in Indonesian firm
Digital Edge, backed by real assets investment manager Stonepeak, today announced acquiring the remaining shares held by the original founders of Indointernet, an Indonesia digital infrastructure company
Guam digital infra firm secures Stonepeak investment
TeleGuam Holdings – majority owned by Hunstman Family Investments – has agreed a $200 million strategic growth investment from investment manager Stonepeak
Connect Fibre wins second UK Project Gigabit contract
Connect Fibre has been awarded its second Project Gigabit contract by the UK government under the Bringing Diversity UK programme
Scala Data Centers expands in Brazil
Scala Data Centers has launched operations in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil’s southern region) through data centre SPOAPA01, a 4.8MW facility