Spanish investment firm Bestinver has confirmed plans to launch a second infrastructure fund in Q1 2024, targeting €450 million in investment

Altice France and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners have entered into an exclusivity agreement to establish what will be the first French "independent distributed colocation provider", through MSIP acquiring a 70% majority stake in datacentre company UltraEdge

South African telecoms company Telkom has entered into exclusive preferred bidder negotiations for the sale of its 6,200 communication towers portfolio, Swiftnet, with a consortium of equity investors

UK-based sector-focused law firm Holman Fenwick Willan has expanded its Australian business, as well as Asia- and Indo-Pacific offerings, with the hire of 5 partners from MinterEllison

ACS Group has entered into a purchase and sell agreement with management company Arcano for a 67-hectare area in Alcala de Henares, some 40km outside of Madrid

Colombia’s ministry of information technologies and communications has verified application documents for the 4 telecoms operators interested in participating in the 5G spectrum auction held on 20 December

Starlink has secured contracts worth $1.67 billion to provide internet and telephone services in Mexico until the end of 2026

Swedish data centre developer EcoDataCenter has secured a €170 million debt package from a lending consortium to develop the company’s EcoDataCenter 1 facility

BlackRock fund BlackRock Evergreen Infrastructure will acquire a commercial and industrial solar and battery platform in the US after hitting a first close at nearly $1 billion in commitments from its European founding partners

Pan-African telecoms company CSquared has received a $25 million equity investment from Convergence Partners Digital Infrastructure Fund, IFC and the International Development Association

Thai mobile phone operator Advanced Info Service has received the green light to take over Thailand-based Jasmine International ’s broadband service provider and investment unit for a total asset value of $903 million

TPG Telecom has ceased discussions with Vocus Group over the latter’s A$6.3 billion offer to acquire part of TPG’s fixed broadband infrastructure assets

Stonepeak-backed Digital Edge Holdings has secured the platform’s first-ever green loan for phase 1 of a 100MW data center in South Korea

MUFG Bank is ramping up its Asia Pacific units with key additions in China and the ESG teams