Jintae Kim has joined placement agent Campbell Lutyens as a managing director in its Seoul office and will focus on building relationships with institutional investors across Korea

Syed Ahmed – director of infrastructure and project finance at MetLife Investment Management – was selected by IJGlobal editors for the IJInvestor Rising Star of the Year in the Americas

The independent panel of judges for the Americas selected Moody’s as the winner of this year’s award for the IJInvestor Ratings Agency of the Year in the region

Ardian was awarded the IJInvestor Equity Fund Manager Award in North America as judges were impressed by the asset manager’s America fund

DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors’ $11 billion take-private deal of data centre company Switch was a natural winner of the IJInvestor Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Award in North America, with one judge simply proclaiming it was a “great deal”

Judges described Aligned Data Centers’ acquisition of ODATA a “great deal for the Latin America data center space”, making it a shoo-in for the IJInvestor Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Award in the region

The IJInvestor Debt Fund Manager Award in North America was awarded to a manager that judges said had a solid performance despite a challenging market – Global Infrastructure Partners

The IJInvestor Debt Fund Manager Award in Latin America was awarded to Beel Infrastructure Partners with the judges saying it was “unique”

IJGlobal tonight presented the winners of IJInvestor Awards Americas 2023 at an inaugural event in New York

Investor Bain Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Altor-owned Swedish infrastructure services and projects company Eleda

Zahl Limbuwala has been appointed executive chair of the advisory board of European data centre operator Maincubes, which is based in Frankfurt and Amsterdam

Mizuho Bank has promoted Jules Kaufling as head of project finance and appointed Tobias Lonnquist as director for advisory within project finance in Sydney

European infrastructure investor Marguerite has acquired a “substantial minority stake” in SWAN, the Slovakian telecoms operator, through its third fund and a capital increase of €50 million

IJGlobal has learned that the London-based global head of investor relations at Global Infrastructure Partners has stepped down from her role