Stafford Capital Partners has finalised deployment of its fourth infrastructure secondaries fund – SISF IV – and made a first investment though its fifth fund

Brookfield Asset Management has opened an office in Frankfurt to reinforce its commitments to the German market, and to develop closer relationships with its investors and portfolio companies

PAI Partners reached final close on the eighth iteration of its flagship buyout fund at €7.1 billion in capital commitments

US-based telecoms firm Liberty Latin America has agreed a deal to sell some 1,300 mobile tower sites across the Caribbean and Latin America to Phoenix Tower International

Wessex Internet Limited, an abrdn portfolio company, has reached close on a £35 million ($43m) debt package from Triodos Bank

Vodafone has revealed plans for a strategic partnership with Accenture to aid in "accelerating its transformation to commercialise its market leading shared services operations" through a €150 million investment from the global professional services company

Zegona Communications completed its €300 million equity placing to institutional investors to partially fund its €5 billion acquisition of Vodafone Spain

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund – part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group – and its fund manager Ninety One have arranged a $31 million debt facility to support the telecoms group Paratus

QTS has acquired Zentrys, a Dutch data centre management and operations company, adding to its footprint of more than 9 million square feet of mega scale data centre space across North America and Europe

CapitaLand India Trust has secured a 5-year construction loan of $156 million for its data centre in Navi Mumbai

HSBC Asset Management has appointed Pang Qi Lim as its chief executive officer of Southeast Asia and Singapore, subject to regulatory approval

Kooyeon Kim today serves his last day as managing director of infrastructure and project finance at NatWest in London. Sources say he is leaving to take on a new role in Asia

The sale of Energy Assets Group is currently in the second round, with 3 companies showing interest, IJGlobal understands

The Investment Advisory Committee of the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds is planning an investment of up to $200 million into Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund V

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers is planning to develop an up to 120MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia