InfraBridge in UK alt net merger proposal

InfraBridge-backed VX UK and Freedom Fibre have reached an agreement to merge, with InfraBridge taking control of the new company upon close

Morgan Lewis adds 2 to Frankfurt M&A team

Morgan Lewis has appointed Hans Leube and Marianne Nawroth – both former partners at Bird & Bird – to its office in Frankfurt where they will focus on M&A deals involving private equity and infrastructure funds

Cordiant Digital expands Czech data centre portfolio

České Radiokomunikace, a Cordiant Digital portfolio company, has begun the process to acquire Aricoma’s data centre and cloud services businesses – Cloud4com and DC Lužice. The total value of the transaction will reach $44 million

French fibre JV secures €3.15bn refinancing

Investissement dans la Fibre des Territoires – a French fibre-optic joint venture between InfraVia and Iliad – has secured a €3.15 billion refinancing from a consortium of lenders including Infranity

Actis to refinance debt for LatAm acquisition

London-based infrastructure investor Actis is seeking to refinance debt on its acquisition of data centres across 6 Latin American countries and the US from Spanish data centre operator Nabiax in March

LMT to roll-out Latvian 5G

Latvian telco Latvijas Mobilais Telefons has signed a debt agreement with the EIB to finance the roll-out of 5G infrastructure across the country

Generate Capital appoints Sonneborn to president

US-based sustainable asset manager Generate Capital has appointed William Sonneborn – former investment committee chair of the International Finance Corporation – as its president, based in San Francisco, California

Japan provides grant for Cambodia data centre, water

The Japanese government is providing grand aid totalling $30 million for the development of 3 projects in Cambodia

Digital Edge ups stake in Indonesian firm

Digital Edge, backed by real assets investment manager Stonepeak, today announced acquiring the remaining shares held by the original founders of Indointernet, an Indonesia digital infrastructure company

Iliad Group proposes merger with Vodafone Italia

Iliad Group has submitted a proposal to merge with Vodafone Italia

Guam digital infra firm secures Stonepeak investment

TeleGuam Holdings – majority owned by Hunstman Family Investments – has agreed a $200 million strategic growth investment from investment manager Stonepeak

Connect Fibre wins second UK Project Gigabit contract

Connect Fibre has been awarded its second Project Gigabit contract by the UK government under the Bringing Diversity UK programme

Scala Data Centers expands in Brazil

Scala Data Centers has launched operations in the city of Porto Alegre (Brazil’s southern region) through data centre SPOAPA01, a 4.8MW facility

NFH locks in funding for German fibre expansion

German fibre platform Northern Fiber Holding has secured a €175 million funding package from the European Investment Bank to support an ongoing fibre roll-out in Germany

UPDATE: QIC refinances with sustainability-linked loan

Australia’s government-owned Queensland Investment Corp has refinanced a subscription finance facility for its infrastructure fund with a circa $300 million sustainability-linked loan