Vero Networks, a Colorado-based fibre infrastructure and broadband internet provider, has raised $80 million in preferred equity financing

UK-based Equitix is in the market with its first infrastructure debt strategy, IJGlobal understands

SCOR Investment Partners has launched a second vintage of its high-yield infrastructure debt fund, targeting €500 million in commitments

Sixth Street has acquired a minority interest in US-based data centre capacity provider EdgeConnex from EQT Infrastructure

Brazil’s Scala Danta Centers has secured a $500 million structured financing to facilitate the firm’s expansion across Latin America

Legal & General Group has appointed Eric Adler as chief executive of its combined public & private asset management businesses based in London and subject to regulatory approval

Illinois State Universities Retirement System has committed $100 million to Pantheon’s fifth infrastructure fund

EQT has reached final close on its active core infrastructure fund at €2.9 billion –short of its €5 billion target

Proparco has committed $15 million to South Africa-based Pembani Remgro’s second infrastructure fund, joining other DFIs backing the strategy

The European Commission has cleared Swisscom’s €8 billion acquisition of Vodafone Italia

Alper Kilic, global head of project & export finance at Standard Chartered Bank, has resigned.

Mauritius-based Axian Telecom will look to expand its African footprint with the acquisition of Wananchi Group – an east African triple-play broadband company

OMS Group has allocated $300 million to expand its submarine cable systems and terrestrial infrastructure

Data centre financings in APAC, led by AirTrunk and those in Malaysia, are keeping PF bankers busy with the Southeast Asian country alone expected to seal up to $5 billion of DC debt transactions in the next 6 months

GIC has made a minority equity investment in Vauban Infra Fibre through a capital increase alongside VIF’s other shareholders