Paris-based investment company Eurazeo has reached second close on its Eurazeo Smart City II Venture fund having raised €150 million

ESR has formed Asia Pacific’s largest real asset manager “powered by the new economy” and the third largest listed real estate investment manager globally with an AUM of $140 billion by completing its acquisition of ARA Asset Management

Keppel Capital’s second data centre fund has beaten its fundraising target by some 10% at closing, backed by LPs including Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

CyrusOne has agreed to sell 4 Houston data centres to DataBank, valued at $670 million

AMP Capital has this week appointed Nadine Lennie as chief financial officer of its private markets business PrivateMarketsCo

Canadian asset manager Brookfield has refinanced debt on the portfolio of data centres developed by DCI Data Centres

Brookfield and Sequoia Capital China are strategic partners, the global alternative asset manager with AUM of $650 billion said today

King & Spalding has added David Ridenour, a structured finance and securitization partner, to its corporate, finance and investments practice group in Washington DC

DigitalBridge Group has hit final close on its second flagship fund – DigitalBridge Partners II – raising $8.3 billion in commitments, considerably exceeding its $6 billion target

New Zealand-based asset manager Morrison & Co has today appointed infrastructure veteran Kate Mingay as a non-executive director, effective immediately, as a part of the firm’s expansion in the UK and Europe

Andrés Onetto has joined Rubicon Capital Advisors as managing director of the firm’s new office in Santiago

The EIB is looking to invest €75 million in French fund manager Meridiam’s unlisted infrastructure investment vehicle – Meridiam Infrastructure Africa Fund II

HSBC has this week appointed long-term employee Natalie Blyth as its global head of commercial banking sustainability, effective immediately

Peru’s national fibre optic concession has formally reverted to national telecoms office Pronatel after the previous concessionaire’s contract was terminated early by the government