IJInvestor Funds & Investors Report – Q3 fundraising gath...

Fundraising gathered pace in Q3 2023, with the quarter recording the highest capital raised in a year

Goldman Sachs Asset Management raises $4bn for infra fund

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has raised $4 billion for the fourth vintage of its infrastructure investing program

Final close for European data centres fund

Principal Real Estate has reached a final close of €297 million on its Principal European Data Centre Fund

IJInvestor Awards 2023 – London Shortlist

IJGlobal is delighted today to announce the shortlists for IJInvestor Awards 2023, identifying those organisations in the running for coveted trophies at the London event (for the whole world, excluding the Americas)

Rakiza acquires stake in Oman Broadband

Infrastructure fund Rakiza and ITHCA have reached FC on the acquisition of a 39% equity interest in Oman’s largest fibre broadband provider Oman Broadband

Seraya Partners hires Jenny Wong

Seraya Partners has appointed Jenny Wong as a vice president in its growing team

IJGlobal ESG Awards 2023 – All The Winners

Having last night hosted the IJGlobal ESG Awards 2023 the time has come to publish the full list of winners to identify the great and good of the international infrastructure and energy community

Sale of EAG advances, UK

The sale of UK-based Energy Assets Group is progressing, IJGlobal has learned

IJGlobal ESG Infra Equity Investor – Igneo

Igneo Infrastructure Partners wins the IJGlobal ESG Infrastructure Equity Investor Award with one judge celebrating the fund manager’s “grown up approach” and being “bold enough to criticise the tick box noise that dominates our sector”

IJGlobal ESG Legal Adviser – EM – Webber Wentzel

Webber Wentzel has won the IJGlobal ESG Legal Adviser Award for emerging markets for the second year on the trot with one judge saying the firm is “genuinely pushing the industry forward in South Africa, beyond BAU activities”

IJGlobal ESG Digital Infra Award – Blackstone

Blackstone’s Project Circuit – data centre financing – wins the IJGlobal ESG Digital Infrastructure Award for being, according to one judge, “technologically advanced” with business practices “underpinned by strong ESG commitments”

Cordiant completes Speed Fibre acquisition, Ireland

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has completed the acquisition of Ireland's Speed Fibre from the Irish Infrastructure Fund for an equity consideration of €97.2 million

Africa Data Centres firms up Ghana facility plans

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has reaffirmed support to Africa Data Centres which plans to build a 30MW data centre in Ghana

It’s out – UK infra assessment

The second issue of the UK’s National Infrastructure Assessment has been published today… and it makes for fairly mundane reading for an infra specialist, until you hit the big numbers